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House & Garden 
HIDING THE UNSIGHTLY FIXTURE 
Still another drop light fixture 
might have red lacquer and gold 
jrame with painted glass sides. 
This would allow you an enor¬ 
mous amount of leeway in the 
way of interesting designs and 
brilliant colorings, and as paint¬ 
ing on glass is somewhat of a 
revived art these days, it should 
be of particular interest 
For the hallway light a lantern 
shape made either in dull black 
iron with painted glass panels, 
or the lantern itself painted a 
delicate green blue with the 
glass decoration painted in two 
tones of the same shade, would 
shed a welcome glow for the 
arriving guest. And it woxdd 
be a thing of real beauty 
The objectionable two light fix¬ 
ture may be turned into a thing 
of beauty by the use of either a 
painted vellum or paper shade, 
fan shaped, the right size to fit. 
A quaint carnival scene in bril¬ 
liant colors on a black back¬ 
ground is only one of the many 
possibilities of this design 
For the single fixture a shirred 
peach colored silk shield, shaped 
so as to curve at the side and 
completely hide the electric 
bulb, may have an oval ribbon 
embroidered decoration, and 
then, as the final Victorian 
touch, peacock blue beads fin¬ 
ished off with white drop crystals 
In a boudoir or bedroom Chinese blue 
silk cords with tassels of a darker blue 
by which the lemon chiffon shade is 
suspended have their tone repeated in 
the blue crystal trimming beads 
Around a central light could be hung 
some old gold silk gauze, topped by a 
Chinese wood carving and finished 
with an ornamental Chinese tassel, 
Chinese wood and enamel beads 
Then there is the ceiling light which is an 
ugly shape and must be concealed in order 
not to upset any decorative scheme of a 
room. This may be of painted parchment 
paper or silk, with shirred silk on the bottom 
finished by a decorative tassel. The color 
scheme may be anything you please; black 
and gold with a touch of terra cotta, perhaps 
