HOUSE AND GARDEN 
December, 1911 
It took considerable ingenuity to make the furniture coincide with the trim. The car¬ 
penter sawed out the chairs from Oregon pine; all were stained a rich brown 
The big library table was built of heavy two-inch lum¬ 
ber with sprawling supports held by wooden pins 
appears the clover-leaf design, and altogether 
it forms the central feature of the simple 
apartment. 
A few concessions had to be made for the 
sake of comfort, and so a morris chair was 
and might easily choose to carve the legs of 
their tables! When chairs were set about it, 
it looked altogether very fit. A small side 
table held a copper percolator, a copper 
water pot, a brass Brodchen basket, and a 
One of the most attractive pieces that were 
made was the screen with its colored panel 
1 he desk was also hand made and bore the 
clover leaf common to most of the other pieces 
allowed for the head of the family to smoke 
his nightly pipe of peace in; but the cushions 
were made of such non-committal russet- 
brown burlaps that no one would look twice 
at them. Mother, too, was 
privileged to have an Ameri¬ 
can rocker, but its quaint fid¬ 
dle back and cushion of scar¬ 
let leather was what caught 
the eye and no one looked at 
the rockers. 
The extension table in the 
dining room proved some¬ 
thing of a problem to the car¬ 
penter, so the factory furni¬ 
ture supply was again levied 
upon, and a black oak table 
was chosen with heavy carved 
or twisted legs — on the score 
that the Swiss peasants spend A bedstead of 
long winter evenings carving Vaterland 
The bureau was of massive design and 
seemed part of the room’s woodwork 
great solidity and of the uncompromising lines of the 
was the first evolution of the ingenious carpenter 
German stein for sake of lending atmosphere. 
Altogether it makes a retreat of refreshing 
departure from the stilted and over-adorned 
or Nouveau Art styles so much exploited. 
What satisfied us so com¬ 
pletely with our cottage was 
that we had chosen an appro¬ 
priate type for the situation 
and made its interior consis¬ 
tent with its outside appear¬ 
ance. Our rugged site, with 
its garden of rocks, was cer¬ 
tainly suggestive of Alpine 
scenery, and if the house was 
to be a chalet its furniture had 
to chime in. Then, too, we 
found that after all the pleas¬ 
ure of the furniture building, 
that it really was intensely 
practicable and long-lived and 
decidedly comfortable in use. 
