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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1913 
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PHILADELPHIA—701 Chestnut St. CHICAGO—444 Com. Nat’l Bank Bldg. WASHINGTON—1306 F St., N. W. 
NEW YORK—290 Broadway 
BOSTON-192 Washington St. 
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gest for them and for the stairway, which 
will have a railing on one side? 
What colored brick and tile for fire¬ 
place and mantel? What finish of wood¬ 
work and built-in bookcases? Also, color 
scheme of walls. Would prefer not to use 
paper. Our furniture for living-room is a 
mixture of mahogany with black leather 
cushions and some of oak finished in dark 
mission style. 
Now for the dining-room. Would you 
advise us to have paneling, and how high ? 
I am fond of white woodwork in dining¬ 
rooms, but could we have it with our gold¬ 
en oak furniture, which we are going to 
have finished a dark, dull finish? 
Should the paneling, if we have it, be 
white, too? 
Will white woodwork be right upstairs 
with mahogany finished doors? 
If you will kindly answer my questions 
I shall be very grateful indeed. 
M. G. J. P. 
Answer — By all means, I should have 
the woodwork of the entrance hall and liv¬ 
ing-room the same. English oak, finished 
dull like the enclosed sample, makes a very 
satisfactory color for living-room and 
hall. The bricks I would have red—an 
orange, gray red. By that I mean not too 
brilliant, and the tiles in the fireplace I 
should have an orange brown, that would 
harmonize with the color of the bricks 
and with the wall as well. I enclose a 
sample of grass cloth that makes an ex¬ 
cellent wall covering for living-room and 
halls. This is $4.50 a roll of eight yards, 
but instead of only eighteen inches wide, 
as most wall-papers are, it is thirty-six 
inches wide, so it goes just twice as far. 
The height of the paneling for the din¬ 
ing-room would be regulated by the height 
of the ceiling. I think white woodwork 
for a dining-room is very satisfactory and 
ornamental as well. Mahogany furniture 
is more often used in a dining-room which 
has white woodwork, but I think your oak 
furniture finished dark will not be out of 
place. White woodwork with mahogany 
doors is quite appropriate for the bed¬ 
rooms. 
I shall be glad to be of any further as¬ 
sistance to you, either in making sugges¬ 
tions or in purchasing any material that I 
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