332 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
While I would as a rule recommend the use of dull half- 
tones and softened shades of color in bungalow furnishings, 
there are some rooms that seem to call for a different treat- 
ment. The one pictured as Fig. 3 is one of these. Here we 
have a glow of rich and diversified coloring which well 
carries out this alternative. 
This room has an ingle-nook fireplace, and the woodwork 
is treated to resemble teakwood. The walls between the 
beams and panels are a soft tobacco brown; one or two large 
chairs are upholstered in corduroy velvet of this color; the 
one shown in the photograph has a pillow of that delicious 
shade of old pink which holds a coppery tone. The lamp 
shade is of the same pink, and one chair is upholstered en- 
tirely with brocade in which this pink is mingled with silver 
threads. The note of pink runs through the entire furnish- 
ing of the room, and is softly and beautifully offset by the 
light dull brown of the draperies and walls. The rich blue 
of a large Cloisonné vase finds its counterpart in some of the 
figures of the Oriental rug on the floor; and although many 
colors are introduced, they are so selected and distributed 
that they blend in beautiful harmony. 
The dining-room illustrated in Fig. 4 is absolutely simple 
in its treatment. Against the redwood paneling of its walls, 
curtains are hung of Japanese crépe, having a pattern of 
clusters of purple grapes, with many green leaves on a white 
ground. ‘The semi-diaphanous quality of this material 
makes it very effective when hung against the light. The 
rug on the floor is a neutral green; the buffet holds delight- 
ful bits of brass and copper. 
In this clean little room every article has its decorative 
value. The purple and green curtains at its windows were 
selected because they showed up the brass and copper acces- 
sories most effectively, and because they contrast so charm- 
ingly with the redwood finish of the walls. It is simple in 
the extreme, but it is thoroughly successful. 
Brown, that shades from a deep mahogany through the 
lighter tones to self-colored pongee, is a most effective color- 
ing for a dining-room. 
The walls of illustrations Figs. 5 and 6 are calcimined in 
a soft shade of brownish tan. This contrasts well with the 
chestnut stain of the woodwork. Curtains of a deeper shade 
of golden brown velour hang in the doorways, and there are 
scarfs of velour outlining the windows. Showing just be- 
yond these velvet scarfs are others of silk pongee, and when 
sash-curtains are used at the windows they are of pongee. 
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It will readily be seen that these golden-brown stuffs, shim- 
mering and rich, shading to the dull light tones of pongee, 
form an exquisite setting for the brass and copper vessels 
that are now so fashionable for dining-room use. An artist 
in his studio would arrange just such a background for 
his stuff. 
A teakwood stand of Chinese carving, holding a brown 
lacquer jardiniere, shows up beautifully in this room, the 
green of small palms or ferns being actually necessary to 
relieve the universal brown. 
The materials that appeal to the imagination as appro- 
priate for bungalows are raw silks and pongee for curtains, 
and these may be found in all of the dull half-tones that 
are so effective in a bungalow interior. 
I have never liked net at the casement windows of a bun- 
galow; nor is embroidered muslin appropriate. Such dainty 
materials, suggesting the furnishing of a boudoir, should be 
left for the cottage or the mansion; they decidedly fall out- 
side of bungalow furnishings. 
Such sturdy diaphanous white stuff as linen scrim, and even 
unassuming cheesecloth, I have seen used most effectively. 
In one very successful bungalow the woman who furnished 
it declared that none of her curtains cost her over seventeen 
cents a yard. She bought unbleached cotton by the bolt, 
and dyed it with her own hands the different beautiful colors 
that carried out the schemes of her rooms. The living-room, 
which was beamed and wainscoted with brown wood, was 
hung at its diamond-paned windows with some East India- 
looking stuff in a rich shade of orange. This proved to be 
the unbleached cotton goods, and as it corresponded pre- 
cisely with the coloring of the plaster above her wainscot, 
and hung in beautiful folds, I did not see how she could 
have improved upon it at any price. 
Her little dining-room had curtains in cold gray-green. 
Here the woodwork was stained silver-gray, and ferns in 
pewter dishes carried out the scheme. 
Cushions of denim, in dull blue, brown and strong green, 
contrast well on a bungalow porch with the always accept- 
able Turkey red. On the outside of a bungalow a bit of 
brilliant color does wonders for the building, as its rustic 
finish is apt to look dull and uninteresting at times. 
and dull-looking bungalow may be made to show up at its 
best and to spring into real beauty by the addition of some 
graceful wicker lounging chairs that are cushioned with 
bright colors on its porch or in its pergola. 
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