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House & Garden 
COUNTRY HOUSE DECORATION 
Unixsiial color schemes, gay summer furniture, cush¬ 
ions and hangings either brilliant or subtle in 
harmony—are yon using them to make your house 
individual and attractive this season? 
NO SERVICE CHARGE 
We submit samples of fabrics; show photographs of original 
furniture; design distinctive color schemes; utilize your pres¬ 
ent furnishings. Regular retail prices are quoted on every¬ 
thing furnished; and there is no service charge whatever. 
Further information will gladly 
be given on request. Address: 
AGNES FOSTER WRIGHT 
INTERIOR DECORATOR 
414 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK CITY 
Alnwick Colonial Bedspreads 
are beautiful creamy white bedspreads with the design 
entirely worked by band in soft knots or tufts. We make 
the spreads to measure without extra charge, and also 
make pillow covers and valances. The spreads may be 
used on any style bed. If preferred, they can be had 
without fringe, or with fringe on the sides only for beds 
with foot boards. The prices are from $16 to $30. We 
will gladly send a number of designs on approval if 
refe rences are given. 
THE HANDWORK SHOP 
57 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, New York 
Alnwick ‘^edsftreads are an investment, for they last a lifetime. 
Miss M. A. Lewis 
Interior Decorator 
10 E. 46th St. 
New York 
The T>orch of a House & Garden subscriber shows a 'pleasing and 
livable use of brick flooring, screen panels and white furniture 
Midway Between House and Garden 
{Continued from page 35) 
and green in foliage and birds. We colors prevailing in the upholstery, 
can take this linen as the chief point The most suitable lighting is had 
of decoration. It is too striking to from wrought iron torcheres. One 
be used in large quantities, but used design, made after a bird cage stand, 
as a valance one gets color that dial- holds a simple, striped parchment or 
lenges the brilliancy without on sunny tin shade. Such a lamp, with the 
days and gives the impression of leaves and foliage touched in green, 
sunshine and warmth on dull days, would add distinction to any porch. 
The undercurtains, which serve only Six-sided lanterns of the linen or 
to soften the light, can be of grey cretonne of the upholstery are easily 
scrim hung in straight, soft folds. made. One has to get the wire frame 
The furniture will be grey enam- made and then the linen is tightly 
eled—a pair of rush seat peasant stretched over it. They may or may 
chairs, a wooden bench, some useful not be shellaced. Both lighted and 
wicker that makes no pretense at unlighted they add interesting color 
decorative effect, and a long, narrow, spots to the porch, 
low table painted grey with green 
mouldings. At either end are two A Livable Porch 
orange bowls for fruit or flowers. 
At either side of the porch mantel. One porch I know, furnished 
which is brick witli orange bonding, mainly in Canton furniture, has for 
can hang two wrought iron brackets, its color Tango and Prussian blue. 
One visualizes flowers in them, or The floor has Tango colored tile with 
ivy twined against the high, semi- a border of blue’. The curtains were 
circular back. made of theatrical gauze dyed with 
benzine in which had been mixed 
Brackets and Fixtures burnt Sienna and raw umber paint, 
making them a copper color. The 
Wall brackets of iron, tin, wood, linen has small vulture-looking birds 
rush and reed are becoming more in white and dark brown, and the j 
and more a necessary adjunct to the curious flowers are of Prussian blue. | 
properly furnished porch. The hold- This was used to cover two wooden ■ 
ers themselves are semi-circular that settles. The lamps were of copper 
they may fit snug against the wall, and so were the two tall candlesticks 
and the flowers are contained in a on the mantel above the fire. The i 
galvanized pot that slips into the fireplace utensils were of copper as j 
pocket of the bracket. It is highly well. One Prussian blue bowl stood j 
important that the decorations at the midway on the mantel shelf, and in 
back of the bracket be interesting either corner were jars of crackle- 
and imt grotesque. Unfortunately ware pottery showing blue and cop- 
many impossible wooden flower hold- per where the glaze had been over- I 
ers have been put on the market. It fired. Two rugs by the entrance ' 
is silly to try to make a holder for were of heavy squared fiber in ; 
flowers more interesting and colorful browns and black, and before the 
than the flowers themselves. Fancy fireplace was a big black bear rug. i 
modest mignonettes trying to hold There was nothing very expensive I 
their own against a gaudy, pecking, about the porch, and it was restful 1 
beetle-eyed parrot! _ and thoroughly livable. j 
There are many interesting mantel One often gets in the way of think- 
garnitures for the porch fireplace, ing of porches as places where we ' 
An Italian majolica placque, crudely sit only to hide from the blistering 
done, is always telling and suitable, sun. If the truth be told, we use the 
A wrought iron grill, repeating the porch quite as much at sundown and I 
design of the fenders and andirons in the evenings as in the day. Hence i 
below, or_ a large wrought iron we welcome a mellowness of color ; 
framed mirror will make striking and the comfort of deep chairs in 
overmantels. The iron could be this spot which lies midway between i 
painted and antiqued, repeating the house and garden. 
