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THE GARDEN IM A G A Z I N E 
INSIDE 
THE 
GARDEN HOME 
JAMES COLLIER MARSHALL 
Decorat ing a Small Group of Rooms 
Mr.J ames Collier Marshall, Director of the Decorating Service of The Garden Magazine’s Advertising Dept., will solve your problems of home 
decoration — color schemes, hangings, floor coverings, art objects and interior arrangements, making purchases at the most favorable prices. 
This service is free to our readers. Address inquiries to “Inside the Garden Home,” The Garden Mageizine, 1 1 West 32nd Street, New York. 
I T MAY not be 
generally known 
that professional 
decorators have more 
orders to decorate and 
furnish small houses 
than large ones and 
even single rooms as 
well as groups of two 
or three rooms to- 
gether. Curiously 
enough the real artists 
of this profession get 
much pleasure in do- 
ing such work though 
they may not have 
time from their larger 
schemes to 
give to it. 
Indeed it is 
far more dif- 
ficult to de- 
corate and 
outfit a 
small group 
Your living porch will be brightened of rooms sat- 
by this bracket for vines. isfac tori 1 y 
than it is to 
lay out the plans for a big house, since in the 
latter case there is usually some architec- 
tural point that directs the scheme, while in 
a group of rooms the personality of the occu- 
pant must be considered in each room. 
To get the best results in decorating these 
small suites, for such they usually are, one is 
limited to the use of a single color or one pat- 
tern, if paper is being used, on all the wall 
surfaces. And let me say here for the 
benefit of those who cannot use paint 
that a paper, providing it is not too un- 
usual, can be used quite satisfactorily. 
One of the cleverest decorations I 
have seen was one where the same 
creamy gray, wide but very faintly 
striped paper was used on the walls of 
living room, dining room and bed- 
room, which were threecommunicating 
rooms of a four room apartment. 
Perhaps it may be interesting to 
some to know how this scheme was 
handled. The dining room opened di- 
rectly off the living room through a 
wide doorway — the livifig room itself 
being reached by means of a small 
square hall, also hung with this wide 
striped paper and furnished with a 
dainty Sheraton consol table, over 
mirror and flanking chairs, and a mul- 
berry monotoned rug. 
This mulberry carpeting was car- 
ried through all the rooms but, with 
the exception of the fine net curtains 
edged with lace hung panelwise at all 
the windows, there the duplication 
stopped. The living room over- 
draperies of silk, wide striped amethyst 
and mulberry, were the keynote of the 
room, whose large sofa, covered with mulberry velvet 
was furnished with curious blue green cushions and 
another of the striped silk, while the one large chair 
was upholstered in a beautiful French linen having 
exotic flowers and birds in unusual gray greens, blues, 
amethyst and mulberry, to match the other stuffs. 
The tables and other chairs were of dull black and 
gold lacquer. 
The dining room fitted with ivory painted furniture 
decorated with the same tone of gray green seen in 
the above mentioned linen, which in the dining room was 
used for over-draperies, while the striped silk seen 
employed as drapery in the living room was here used 
to cover the flat chair cushions. Thus by clever 
transposition of identical materials and colors these 
connecting rooms were given a distinct individuality, 
preserving, meanwhile, perfect color consonance. 
The bedroom open- 
ing from the living 
room by a small door 
opposite the dining 
room has, as has 
been stated, the same 
paper and mulberry 
monotoned rug, but 
by the employment 
of a printed linen of 
Adam’s designs the 
effect was entirely di f- 
ferent. This ma- 
terial had oblong 
classic medallions in 
soft tints surrounded 
by scrolls in ivory on 
a black 
ground. 
Hung at 
the win- 
dows and 
used as 
cushion 
covers for 
the three if the living room lamp is too bright 
piece use this daintily painted screen. 
wicker 
chaise longue pictured here this print was 
remarkably superior, there being plenty of 
soft toned blue green and mulberry silk pil- 
plows to offset its classic severity. To com- 
plete this description the very chic owner 
of this charming apartment has gone the 
limit, so to speak, on her china and linen 
for individual use, having several dainty 
breakfast tray sets to match the colors of 
her bedroom. There is a dainty 
amethyst banded white one, a pale 
coral pink lined one, and a blue 
banded one besides the one of multi- 
colored English china shown here, 
which is a beauty in every respect and 
costs $20. The simpler ones, though 
having the same number of pieces, 
cost but $7 each. 
The linen of this bijou household 
was in full keeping with its general 
refinement, there being plenty of fine 
hemstitched and daintily embroidered 
cloths for breakfast and special service 
trays. Among the simpler articles 
for staid everyday use is a tray cloth , 
and napkin of crossed hemstitching ' 
nicely monogrammed with three 
letters in the middle of the longwise 
side. These sell at only $8.25. ^ 
Then for tea, w-hich is served from 
the usual wheeled cart, there are good 
looking cloths of filet and pointe 
coupe, with serviettes and toast nap- 
kins to match. Besides these there 
are fascinating miniature napkins with 
embroidered cocks for service with the 
before dinner appetizer as well as 
wisps of linen and lace to be served 
with the after dinner coffee. 
Such a breakfast tray as this of English china lends a fine distinction to any home. Hav- 
ing 17 pieces it sells for $20. The tray costs $2.75. 
The ordinary bedroom will be sufficiently furnished with this fine chaise longue whose several parts may 
be distributed for other purposes. Price $38.00 
