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Volume XXII 
October, 1912 
Number 4 
A drawing-room that aims at comfort first. In this drawing-room, the color scheme of which is blue and buff, the upholstered lounge is set 
before the fire and backs up upon a table. This central feature is a desirable one to adopt 
Well Planned Interiors That Show Character 
THE WORK OF MODERN DECORATORS AS SHOWN IN CAREFULLY EXECUTED ROOMS—SCHEMES FOR 
EACH ROOM IN THE HOUSE WITH POWERFUL SUGGESTION^—FURNISHINGS HARMONIOUSLY COMBINED 
Photographs by Ph. B'. Wallace, George Doust, Mary Hopkins, Floyd Baker and others 
An Informal \ WAG being asked to 
Drawing-room TT define a drawing¬ 
room replied that it was a 
room where rocking-chairs were taboo, and 
where the atmosphere was three-fourths 
starch. The first part of his answer was right 
enough; the second was without foundation 
or reason. No room should be stiff. A room 
may be formal and elegant without stiffness. 
As the drawing-room is a place par excel¬ 
lence for entertainment, a place for polite 
conversation and other forms of social inter¬ 
course, its furnishings should accord with its 
purpose. The dividing line between drawing¬ 
room and living-room is not always clearly 
defined and in many households the functions 
are merged in one apartment. As the draw¬ 
ing-room, however, is ordinarily of a some¬ 
The keynote of the library is found 
in its paneled woodwork 
what formal character, the greatest care and 
circumspection is needed in treating it success¬ 
fully, in the first place with regard to the color 
scheme, and in the second with reference to 
furnishings. 
One very charming drawing-room is worthy 
of description for its richly suggestive charac¬ 
ter and the hints to be gained therefrom. The 
color scheme is simple and striking, buff and 
blue. The walls are covered with a plain buff 
paper with narrow satin stripes alternating with 
the dull ground. The curtains and the uphol¬ 
stery are of a peculiar shade of peacock blue. 
The only considerable notes of other pro¬ 
nounced color in the room are a leopard skin 
before the fireplace and the deep red tiles of 
the hearth and facing of the fireplace. The 
carpet is a large Axminster rug of plain blue 
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