HOUSE AND GARDEN 
| June, 1915 
447 
sheer determination, hard work and pleas¬ 
ure in the work. We secured possession 
of the place in October; in November the 
kitchen, cellar and back porch were built, 
but not finished ; April first the workmen 
began again, and by the middle of June 
we were living in the house, everything 
finished and in order — the garden finished 
and in bloom! 
Simplicity in a Suburban Home 
( Continued from page 418) 
first requisite of a successful trellis room 
is a nice relationship, an interesting spac¬ 
ing of the horizontal and vertical strips. 
This trellis room is a small room for a 
large house like this, where there are many 
rooms and plenty of space, but one can 
never use it without feeling what a boon 
it would be in many a house in lieu of the 
ordinary reception room. It has a cozy 
window-seat, with a high back and a broad 
window-sill in back of it with interesting 
double casements. It has an interesting 
wall treatment, suggestive of an out-of- 
doors atmosphere, appropriate as a setting 
for house plants and flowers. It has lovely 
soft colorings with which to delight the 
guest and a welcoming tea table. How 
much better, purer, truer, a little room 
like this is for the receiving of visitors— 
to whom you cannot offer the full hos¬ 
pitality of your house—than a room fur¬ 
nished out of all keeping with the rest of 
the house, in delicate coloring, in gilt and 
mahogany, with useless bits of ostenta¬ 
tious, inartistic bric-a-brac, like a survival 
of the old parlor traditions, with decadent 
gilt trying to keep up the royal tradition 
of the French Louis! 
The Pattison house is rich in color sug¬ 
gestions. Its hall has dull, deep, gold 
Japanese burlap, a weave, finer and dif¬ 
ferent from grass cloth, pressed in gold. 
The wood is stained brown, with here and 
there in a broad grain a wee suggestion 
of Pompeian green. The drawing-room 
has a deep green weave with black-stained 
woodwork, which is used with gold picture 
frames and other touches of gold through¬ 
out the furnishings. In the library the 
woodwork is black with a broad-striped 
paper of dull old yellow. The color of 
the dining-room, which is so placed that 
it is more or less a room apart from the 
more open hall and drawing-room, is 
silver. This is an unusual color to use in 
this style of house, but it just goes to show 
that you can harmoniously use any color 
if only you choose the proper shade and 
the right texture. Here the silver is a 
Japanese burlap and it is used with gray- 
stained woodwork. There is a very beau¬ 
tiful rug here with lovely rose color and 
blues in the pattern. 
All the colors on the first floor of the 
main house harmonize, as stained wood, 
woven wall coverings, rough wall colors 
harmonize if used intelligently. There is 
no need to keep to the same color in a 
house, if >011 don't care to, but the effect 
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