A Louis XVI bedroom, with the spirit of a Watteau woman expressed in its detail of cane and carved furniture and paneled walls. It is to be regretted that the 
mistress failed in her arrangement of bedcovers, for even by such minute mistakes can the effect of a good room be spoiled 
THEIR FURNISHINGS AND DECORATIONS ACCORDING TO OCCUPANTS—THE ESSENTIALS FOR MEN—THE 
GRANDMOTHER’S ROOM—WHAT THE GUEST ROOM SHOULD EXPRESS—GENERAL RULES FOR BEDROOMS 
Agnes Foster 
I S there anywhere in the world 
that a woman is so completely 
herself as in her bedroom? It is her 
little domain, and there she is su¬ 
preme. And it is usually her dream 
to make it an expression of her¬ 
self, if so complex a thing as a 
woman can be expressed—even to 
herself. So milady dreams of 
what she will do with that room, 
and the whole gamut of possible 
schemes passes through her ambi¬ 
tious head. 
Who of us has not formed a 
resolution in those early hours that 
this year the curtains shall be rose, 
a gay rose? We are tired of those 
•dull, old, blue ones. Or if the pres¬ 
ent ones are a matter of little in¬ 
terest, we promise ourselves that 
in our next apartment our bed¬ 
rooms shall be mauve with a little 
3'ellow, say, or in the spring we’ll 
repaper the wall with a gray stripe. 
Maybe we will call in a decorator 
to suggest the change, but deco¬ 
rators will all tell the same story — 
that a woman is never less docile 
and pliable than in the matter of For a business woman, a room of more severe lines — no frippery, no 
her bedroom. dust-catchers, the sort of room for a small city apartment 
And as to men's, it is generally 
settled thus: “No frippery, if you 
please, madam. No, I hate pink. 
And I don’t want the kind of cur¬ 
tains that blow out the window.” 
The decision is indisputable. 
The rule does not hold that be¬ 
cause a woman is blond, blue-eyed, 
with light curls, that her room is 
pale pink and blue, but the general 
furnishing of her bedroom will lead 
you to suspect the curls and the 
blue eyes. So, for this dainty lady 
— and there are hundreds of her 
kind—let's plan a suitable room: 
small in scale, a favorable setting 
for her Watteauesque self. Wat¬ 
teau ! What could be better than a 
Louis XVI bedroom? 
The walls can be treated either 
one of two ways; the simpler meth¬ 
od is to panel them and paint the 
woodwork cream; or they may be 
paneled in damask, with a buff 
background and rose figures. The 
woodwork inclosing the rather 
large panels would be painted 
cream. At the windows two- 
toned taffeta hangings of rose and 
buff, or a less expensive, soft silk 
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