HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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Many times we can redecorate but not re¬ 
furnish. Good, substantial pieces cannot 
be sacrificed, and the decorator faces the 
problem of making his rooms fit the fur¬ 
niture rather than the furniture the 
rooms. If this happens to be of good de¬ 
sign and harmonious, even if not all of the 
same character, it will not be so difficult; 
but, again, it may be too ornate or of 
widely differing woods or designs. 
The use of paint on old furniture has 
not yet been given a general trial, but it 
accomplishes surprising results. Much of 
the over-ornate furniture of twenty years 
ago has for its most objectionable feature 
the ornamentation of sawed-out figures 
glued on. This can quite easily be re¬ 
moved and it often leaves a plain piece of 
furniture with fairly good lines, which 
may be painted and left plain, or, with a 
quaint decoration of flowers and fruits 
stenciled on it, makes charming furniture 
for bedrooms, where light colors are de¬ 
sired. Or if the furniture he of walnut or 
oak or other handsome wood, removal of 
varnish and the application of a good wax 
finish makes a different looking article of 
the piece once so objectionable or inhar¬ 
monious. 
The daintiness of white furniture is 
acknowledged by everyone. And what is 
more appropriate for a young girl's room 
than furniture of pink or blue or laven¬ 
der? For a boy's room, paint the furni¬ 
ture black and have plenty of brilliant 
colors about, and you will have a room full 
of character and yet pleasing to the eye. 
One boy’s room was made very striking 
by painting the furniture — in the orange 
red enamel paint, the color that one sees 
in Japanese prints, the whole being held 
down with gray woodwork, lighter gray 
walls and Russian crash hangings. In this 
room there was not much honorable fur¬ 
niture—an iron bed, a few chairs, an old 
study table and a high, small dressing- 
stand, the chiffonier being built in and con¬ 
sequently of the color of the woodwork. 
No two pieces in this room were of the 
same kind or style originally, yet the few 
cans of paint made them surprisingly 
homogeneous in effect. While the bright 
red would be too striking for most tastes, 
it exactly suited the room of this particular 
boy. 
The only large space of the red was the 
table top, which was mostly covered with a 
crash runner and a gray blotter, and racks 
of books at either end. 
With the growth of outdoor life the 
house becomes not less but more impor¬ 
tant. The more we live in the open, the 
more we demand of light and air in our 
houses. The remodeled house, like the 
newly built one, has fewer rooms and has 
them larger, spends more on large win¬ 
dows, well glazed and screened, and less on 
elaborate woodwork or ornamentation of 
any kind, and in the made-over house the 
process of elimination is more important 
and often more costly as well than the sub¬ 
sequent decoration. 
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