HOUSE AND GARDEN 
412 
June, 1915 
walls may be covered with lattice work over 
which vines can be trained, or else rough 
plastered. An attractive way to treat plaster 
walls is with a decoration of garlands fres¬ 
coed on, reminiscent of old Italian gardens. 
The colors can be those of luscious fruits and 
warm-tinted flowers. Such a decoration is 
particularly appropriate when the room is 
used for tea, luncheon or dinner. The deco¬ 
ration may be repeated on the table and 
chairs. At one end place a wall fountain of 
Italian design, repeating the colors of the 
fresco. As a table centerpiece use one of 
those majolica pottery baskets of fruit. This 
may be replaced at meal times by a low brass 
bowl of real fruit. It is not desirable to keep 
The wall decoration here is a combination of lattice and rough plaster, the latter frescoed with flower wreaths 
and the furniture decorated with the same designs 
gardens of a joyous riot of color. It is from the vantage point 
of the garden living-room that these are most enjoyed. For the 
garden living-room is the go-between of the house and the garden, 
and consequently should harmonize broadly in style with both. 
Those that are constructed as part of the house—the porch, the 
piazza, the sunporch, the outside living- or dining-room — may be 
furnished in almost the same style as the living-room itself. The 
A bench and a bower will make a sufficient garden 
living-room for the small place if properly 
placed, shaded and amid flowers 
Before planning the permanent pavilion see to its outlook and its background. These 
of structure and decoration will grow out of them as expressions of 
fruits on the 
table between 
meals; the in¬ 
sects besiege it, 
and also it is unpalatable when warm. Artificial fruits may be 
used as a good substitute. 
Lattice walls bring within much of the outdoors. The lattice 
itself should be kept very simple, let¬ 
ting the vines do the decorating. The 
box in which the vines are planted 
should be the same color as the lattice 
and should not be featured, but made 
part of the background itself. Lattice 
laid at all angles and cut in all forms 
gives an undesirable ginger-bread effect. 
A good color scheme for a lattice 
porch, if one desires to get away from 
the usual green, is to paint the lattice 
a blue-green, blue enough to harmonize 
with the green in the foliage. For hang¬ 
ings or covers use a dull orange. The 
furniture may be enameled in blue- 
green with stripings of dull orange. 
Bv placing in this room an orange bowl 
or a blue-green wicker basket the colors 
are accented. 
The day of green chairs and Turkey- 
red cushions has gone by. Sun-fast 
materials in every tone have filled with 
much success a longfelt want. Wicker 
willow, reed and rattan are now the 
accepted kinds of furniture. In a 
partly-enclosed porch wooden furniture 
with rush seats may be used, as there 
are the essentials. The form the wear of the weather has not to be 
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