AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
January, 1914 
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The dining-room table shown above will cost $48, the head chairs $1 1 each, the serving-table $12, and the dining chairs $7 each 
inside, $6.40; total $127.40 for the heavy room of the floor. 
to predominate (the shades found in the early autumn oak 
leaves are good guides) ; and here, of course, we use the 
ecru net curtains and inside sunfast curtains, as in the dining- 
room. The frames of the willow furniture are painted in 
brown, and the high notes are reached in touches of old 
gold in the shades of the lamps and in the floor and sofa 
cushions, here and there. Here we 
also use an occasional touch of green 
in a cushion or a little vase to con- 
nect this room with the dining-room 
in color. The furniture of this room 
comprises: Rug, $95; table, $28; 2 
sofas, $45; 2 square arm-chairs, $15; 
4 open-back chairs, $32; wicker tea- 
table, $10; lamp, $15; net curtains, 
$9; inside curtains, $40; total, $289. 
The veranda leading from this 
room is furnished in brown wicker 
with brown “verdure” coverings. We 
allow for it: Settee, $15; 2 chairs, 
$15; 1 tea-table, $8; total, $38. 
The hall, which brings the living- 
room and dining-room into relation, 
contains a card table, on which 
stands a lamp with old gold or green 
shade, two chairs with either brown or green cushions, and 
a gray velvet rug, as we have said before: Rug, $40; card 
table, $10; lamp, $8; 2 chairs, $16; net curtain at door, $3; 
total, $77. 
Now we will go upstairs. The rooms here are individual 
and private, shut off from one another in both color and 
character. The man of the 
house, doubtless liking solid, 
strong furniture and a heavy 
color that will take smoke 
without protest and the sun 
without danger of fading, 
will feel at ease with crafts- 
man articles, stained brown 
and upholstered in brown 
leather. The hue of the brown 
rug on the floor should be 
selected with regard to the 
amount of light in the room. 
Behind the ecru net curtains 
a sunfast material of old 
gold tones (slightly figured) 
will add a bright note to the 
somewhat sombre room. The 
furnishings are: Bed, $25; 
chiffonier, $46; 1 arm-chair, 
$12.50; 1 desk, $22; 1 small 
chair, $11.50; 1 smoking- 
table, $4; curtains, net and 
The next room, that of the mistress of the house, should 
form a contrast. This should be light, delicate and dainty. 
As the windows open on the back and side, and not the 
front, we will use white net here instead of the ecru. We 
will suggest decorating this room in the fashionable French 
gray and old rose (not pink), in 
which a slight feeling of lilac or pale 
violet enters. Select a French gray 
rug and inside curtains of old rose. 
The furniture should be painted gray 
and enameled and upholstered in old 
rose. Choose also the same fabric 
for the bed-spread, round rolled bol- 
ster, and dressing-table cover. The 
furniture here will cost us the follow- 
ing sums: Bed-room suite, $86.50; 1 
desk, $20; rug, $20; curtains, net and 
inside, $6.40; total, $132.90. 
Passing on to the other side over 
the living-room, we devote the back 
room to the daughter of the house, 
furnishing it in blue. Here we have: 
1 brass bed, $20; 1 dressing-table, 
$25; 1 dressing-chair, $8; 1 arm- 
chair, $12; 1 willow table, $8; 1 rug, $16; net curtains, 
and chintz curtains, $6.00; total, $95. 
The chintz or cretonne is a pretty, cheerful, refreshing 
design of daisies and clover mingled together, and we will 
use the same for curtains, dressing-table cover, the bed- 
spread and bolster and the cushions for the chairs. A blue 
rug matching the darkest 
shade of the flowers — Yale 
blue — should be selected. 
The guestroom in front 
of this room is to be fur- 
nished in yellow. Here we 
have: 1 brass bed, $20; 1 
low-boy and glass, $25; 1 
dressing-chair, $5 ; 1 easy 
chair, $9; 1 table, $10; rug, 
$16; net curtains and chintz 
curtains, $6.40; total, 
$91.40. 
for the chintz we will 
choose a design of yellow 
roses arranged in stripes, se- 
lecting a rug to match — a 
plain yellow — and upholster- 
ing the chairs and draping 
the bed with the same 
chintz. 
From the above plan for 
furnishing the small house 
A new printed fabric is now on the market and 
shows the repeated pattern on the back. Light 
coming through it gives it a beautiful translucent 
effect. This fabric is also appropriate for pillow 
coverings, and in the scheme of decoration proposed 
in this article is used for veranda cushion covers. 
