212 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS June, 1911 
Fig. 7—Breakfast table Fig. 8—Serving table Fig. 9—Drop-leaf table 
in modified form, can be realized by purchasing a portable rooms in a tasteful manner. Allowing four hundred dol- 
house and setting it up wherever the fancy leads. So dur- lars for the furnishings, one may select anything needful for 
able and compact are these fold-up houses that they do not this amount and find that the summer home, inside and out, 
partake of the toy element, to be played with and thrown has .cost only the modest sum of one thousand dollars. 
away, but belong to In the matter of 
a distinctive archi- furniture, unless one 
tectural class, where -has kept in touch 
Pike mpruaret tical with what the shops 
thought for home are offering for bun- 
comfort is carefully galows and cottages, 
united with artistic it is difficult to imag- 
detail. ine how far a re- 
Since the incep- stricted amount of 
tion of this idea, its money will go, and 
development has what it will do. The 
been rapid, follow- illustrations are sug- 
ing the modern ex- gestive of the newer 
actions for exterior and more tasteful 
beauty and good in- designs that may be 
terior arrangement. had now at very 
For a family of moderate prices. A 
flour. the floor selection from these, 
pela n . illustrated duplicating some of 
gives a front piazza, the single chairs, 
a side piazza or would come to two 
sunroom, a_living- hundred and fifty 
room, kitchen and dollars, leaving a 
two bedrooms. The hundred and fifty 
cost of the house is for rugs, window 
600) C0) mp let e: shades and curtains, 
If a permanent site Fig. |0—Suggestions for the interior treatment of a bungalow bedding, kitchen 
has not been select- utensils and_ table 
ed, there is often an advantage in renting a lot in the pre- ware and other necessary appointments. 
ferred locality and testing its good qualities before buying. The illustration shown in Fig. 10 offers a suggestion as 
The consideration of the house and lot being disposed of, to how the living-room of a bungalow can be finished on the 
then comes the important question of fitting up the various interior. The draperies to the windows are particularly 
Fig. 11—Dining table Fig. 12—Sideboard Fig. 13—-Round drop-leaf table 
