January, rort AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 5 
With the woodwork correctly finished in 
white paint, a bedroom furnished with an- 
tiques finds the curtain question definitely 
fixed in the same color—cream, ivory or pure 
white. The material may be muslin, organ- 
die, dimity, scrim, madras, grenadine, net or 
lace, the more simple the effect the more in 
keeping with the general scheme of the room. 
For a bedroom that is used in the cold 
weather, a long over-curtain that can be easily 
swung across the window is a cosy note of 
comfort. This may be made of linen, chintz, 
cretonne or taffeta, and lined with sateen; 
or the material may be of heavier weight and 
put up without a lining. Some of the Scotch 
fabrics that are guaranteed to be incapable 
of fading are especially desirable for the 
latter use. 
There are so many kinds of rugs to 
choose from at this time, that those suitable 
Ample spaces suit the old furniture for the old-fashioned bedroom need not be 
dificult to determine upon. Color, texture, 
amount of light, the personal preference for color and the design and size are all of moment, and if the supply in stock 
outlay to be made. In a guest room, a figured paper is does not meet the requirements, a special order can often 
often chosen for its decorative effect, where a room in con- secure it. The woolen rugs made in Scotland in vege- 
stant occupation is treated to a plain paper, 
one that is printed in two tones of one color, 
or a self-toned pattern. 
Wall papers need not be actual repro- 
ductions of the old ones to be distinctive 
accompaniments to antique furniture, nor, 
are they necessarily of high price or fine 
quality. Some charming chintz effects of 
domestic manufacture may be bought for 
twenty-five and thirty cents a roll, and the 
narrow stripes in two tones cost forty cents 
a single roll. 
The floral borders that are so freely em- 
ployed now in wall decorations should be 
used with restraint in connection with old 
furniture, although in many instances they 
are exactly the right note. The border with 
edges cut out is a modernized adaptation of 
the old border with straight edges which 
took the place of a picture molding as a 
finish to the top line of the walls. In rooms 
with an uneven ceiling the narrow border 
may be used in the place of a picture molding; 
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Some excellent furnishings 
table dyes, at the moderate cost of three dol- 
lars a square yard, can be had in a variety 
of colors in plain or figured effects. These 
are the ideal floor coverings where Oriental 
rugs of fine quality are out of the question. 
Rugs made of cotton strips woven on a 
hand loom may be of real charm when the 
colors are skillfully assembled. This usually 
means the special dyeing of the material, 
which increases the cost considerably. . 
A lounge, an armchair and a rocker are 
modern concessions for the old-fashioned 
bedroom, but these need not be out-of-keep- 
ing with the older furniture if built on simple 
lines. For their coverings one may find in 
the printed linens, linen taffetas, cretonnes, 
or two-toned jute materials the colors that 
will unite harmoniously with the wall hang- 
ings and the floor coverings. When pictures 
are to be purchased for this room, engrav- 
ings and etchings from Dendy Sadler's 
eighteenth century scenes, and the mezzo- 
Authentic in every detail tints of Charles Bird may be remembered, 
