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HOUSE & GARDEN 
type, has brought him in 
touch with all that is fin¬ 
est throughout the world. 
That such men as these 
should create a home of 
dignity and charm is not 
a matter for wonderment, 
but what they have done 
is an excellent example of 
what others can do, not 
by rote and copy, but by 
the compelling threefold 
power of genuineness, 
sincerity and understand¬ 
ing. 
The spaciousness and 
adaptability of the rooms 
were carefully taken as 
the first consideration, for 
neither had the inclination 
of the pocket-hook for ex¬ 
tensive structural altera¬ 
tions. 
There were certain 
rooms that seemed natur¬ 
ally to lend themselves to 
other treatments than 
those to which the previ¬ 
ous occupant had put them. Thus, the 
bedroom, which had an excellent front 
location, was transformed into a living- 
room, and the cubby-hole hall bedroom 
into a study. Wide openings between 
the new drawing-room and living-room 
permitted the two to be considered as 
a unit, so far as the woodwork was con¬ 
cerned, distinction being gotten by differ¬ 
ent wall treatments. A small doorway 
into the dining-room did not necessitate 
this same color, pale yellow' being used 
there 
The cubby-hole hall 
bedroom was made into 
a study furnished in 
white enamel with 
sconces and candelabra 
in antique gold, jade 
blue rug, blue and 
brown paper paneled 
with an ivory moulding 
Wide 
openings 
livin 
together with ivory-toned woodwork made of the 
g- and drawing-room a congruous unit 
rificing the artistic merit 
of the chosen schemes. 
In the hall bedroom study, 
where space was very 
limited, the scheme is es¬ 
pecially interesting. A 
Morris “Orchard” paper 
in pastel blues, browns 
and greens was set in 
panels with wide borders 
of grey lavender and a 
narrow line of warm 
ivory woodwork. 
The stock lighting fix¬ 
tures were removed for 
fixtures more in harmony 
with their plans, the din¬ 
ing-room cabinet was sim¬ 
plified, and the over-or¬ 
nate gas-log mantelpiece 
was exchanged for a pure 
lined Adam fireplace with 
panels of plate-glass 
above, the corner blocks 
above the doors were 
changed from round to 
square, the 18" picture 
moulding was removed, 
and the walls were paneled with the sim¬ 
plest of mouldings. Apart from these 
comparatively minor alterations, the 
work was a matter of paper and paint 
and graceful fitments. 
The rooms are, as a unit, from the 
ivory-toned walls and ruby carpet of the 
living-room to the pale cafe au lait draw¬ 
ing-room with its Toil de Joiey panels, 
its marble Mercury on the Adam mantel, 
its luxurious hlack violet hangings, its 
comfortable chairs, its lamps of delicate 
The wall treat¬ 
ments of each 
room were dis¬ 
tinctive, the main 
idea being to at¬ 
tain a sense of 
space without sac- 
A group in tbe drawing- 
room. Warm ivory 
walls and ruby-toned 
carpet form a satisfying 
background for the ma¬ 
hogany couch uphol¬ 
stered in violet velvet, 
set with pillows of the 
same shade and scarlet 
elegance and its 
charming objets 
d’ art —some tiny 
Chinese gods of 
jade and a pair of 
pert Copenhagen 
ducks with in¬ 
quisitive bills. 
