March, 1913 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
237 
As your dining-room is a north room 
you will have to use a paper with some 
warmth of color. 
The paper with the little fleur-de-lis 
pattern of which I send a sample would 
make an exceedingly pretty room. While 
the little pattern is not blue it gives the 
•effect of being so, and blue is usually very 
nice introduced in a dining-room. 
I would suggest, if you use this paper 
that you get curtains with a little blue in 
them—Japanese towelling makes very 
pretty side curtains—and also use some 
pottery, such as the Brittany pottery, with 
blue and yellow in it. The rug for the 
•dining-room should be in this case of old 
blue and yellow or buff. Many excellent 
rugs come in these colorings. 
Since the woodwork in the living-room 
is mahogany, I should use a paper with 
some red in it. I am sending a sample of 
very handsome paper with gold, blue and 
red in it. Khiva rugs with their dark, 
rich colorings would be beautiful in this 
room if this paper were used. Hangings 
•could be of the same tone of red, and 
some comfortable, spacious lounging 
■chairs, and a large divan in the same 
colorings would be appropriate and har¬ 
monious. 
If these suggestions interest you, I 
should be very glad to go into the matter 
more fully, sending you samples of the 
materials, furniture or rugs you might 
■decide upon. This service entails no extra 
•expense to you. 
Query .—I should be very greatly 
•obliged to you if you would kindly give 
•me your advice in the following matter: 
I am building a small house in the sub¬ 
urbs, and I am very much puzzled to know 
what color draperies and rugs to get for 
the living-room (size 14' 8" x 16' 8") the 
walls of which are yellow, the woodwork 
white and the furniture mahogany. What 
would you suggest? The curtains will 
(hang between two white columns, which 
form the doorway leading to the entrance 
Ihall. Also, what color tiles would you 
suggest for the fireplace in this room? 
The woodwork, mantel, etc., will be white. 
J. F. 
Answer .—Almost any color will har¬ 
monize nicely with your yellow walls; 
brown, blue or green. My own prefer¬ 
ence would be for brown or for blue, ac¬ 
cording to the location of the room, 
whether it has a northern or a southern 
exposure. Whichever color you employ 
for your draperies and rugs I would sug¬ 
gest that you carry out in the tiling of the 
fireplace. By all means I should have the 
woodwork of the mantel white. Cotton 
velvet, which comes 50" wide for $2.50 
a yard would be excellent for your heavy 
draperies, and some of the unfadeable fab¬ 
rics for the lighter draperies. I enclose 
a few samples of both materials. 
If you do not feel that you can btfy 
Oriental rugs, in which I would suggest 
that the colors be mostly blues and browns, 
the Caledon rugs which come in many ex¬ 
cellent colors at $4.00 a square yard, or 
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