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House & Garden 
Kelsey Health Heated 
First Presbyterian 
Church, at Upper Mont¬ 
clair, N. J- 
KELSEy 
HEALTH 
H EAT 
Crow, Lewis & Wicken- 
hoefer, Architects. 
Particularly Adapted for Churches 
I T is particularly adapted, because it ventilates and 
heats at the same time. 
It heats with fresh air, freshly warmed. 
It gives an abundance of heat with ample ventilation. 
It makes unnecessary, expensive ventilating systems. 
It reduces actual coal consumption to a surprising 
degree. 
No need to start fire Saturday to have the various 
rooms warm enough for Sunday. Start it 7 o’clock Sunday. 
Let us explain how it can be used as a cooling system 
for the Summer. 
Let us send you and every member of the committee, 
some church heating facts and figures. 
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Successful Small Living 
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Rooms 
greens, pur- 
Plain, gray-white filet 
net, gathered very full, 
was used to curtain the 
doors and windows. 
Overdraperies and 
a pleated valance were 
made of printed linen in 
a Chinese pattern chiefly 
blue, gray and gray¬ 
ish-mauve, with touches 
of black and dull green. 
Beneath the windows 
was built a long, narrow 
seat cushioned with gray¬ 
ish-mauve velour nar¬ 
rowly striped with black. 
Linen like the hangings 
was used to cover a dav- 
enport and one easy 
chair. The remaining 
chairs were painted black 
with stencil decorations, 
and cushioned with the 
mauve and black velour. 
A slender, black-lac¬ 
quered kidney table, 
placed conveniently near 
one end of the daven¬ 
port, held magazines and 
a black and silver reading 
lamp with a shade of 
ivory parchment embel¬ 
lished with motifs copied 
from those represented 
by the design of the 
chair backs. 
It will be noted that 
pies and grays were prominent both 
in this room and the one previously 
described, and yet the slight differ¬ 
ences in tone, and the introduction of 
gold in one case and blue in the 
other, produced very different results. 
A Livable Transformation 
In a certain long, very narrow liv¬ 
ing room, poorly lighted in the day¬ 
time by a single window at the east¬ 
ern end and at night by a central 
chandelier which left both ends en¬ 
veloped in gloom, the dark green 
wall paper, hangings and carpet, and 
the old-fashioned black walnut furni¬ 
ture combined to produce a funereal 
atmosphere which depressed all who 
chanced to enter it. 
A complete transformation was 
wrought by changing the color scheme 
and converting the end of the room 
farthest from the window into an 
inglenook. A new floor was laid 7" 
above the level of the old, for about 
one-third of the length of the room. 
In this nook a wide, low fireplace 
was built, and a large mirror placed 
above it to catch and reflect the light 
from the window at the opposite end. 
Additional light was admitted through 
a French door with which the old 
walnut one was replaced. 
The dark green paper was next re¬ 
moved and the walls hung with can¬ 
vas. In the fireplace alcove they were 
painted a mottled, pinkish orange, 
suggestive of leaping flames, which 
gradually merged into old ivory, be¬ 
coming paler by degrees as the win¬ 
dow was approached. The woodwork 
was painted a deep ivory verging to¬ 
ward orange brown, and the floor 
was covered with a plain, dull olive 
green carpet. On the elevated floor 
of the inglenook was spread a Per¬ 
sian rug patterned in ivory, pinkish 
orange, and dull green and blue. A 
thin Oriental silk in similar coloring 
was used at the window as side dra¬ 
peries over glass curtains of the 
sheerest cream net. The French door 
also was veiled with net, shirred on 
brass rods, leaving the upper panes 
of glass exposed. The best of the old 
furniture was painted a medium tone 
of olive green and re-upholstered 
with pinkish-orange damask, and a 
By keeping to principles of color and 
proportion the hall living room can he 
made a place dignified and livable 
few additional pieces of ivory enam : 
eled willow were cushioned with blue 
and orange striped linen. 
The chandelier was removed, and 
in its stead bracket fixtures of rosy 
copper were placed at suitable inter¬ 
vals against the walls, and reading 
lamps with ivory crackle-ware bases 
and pinkish-orange shades were ar¬ 
ranged on tables in convenient relation 
to the long sofa and the most in¬ 
viting chairs. The result was a room 
of captivating charm. 
Some Simple Changes 
Still another unattractive living 
room was made habitable through the 
agency of far more simple changes. 
This room received an ample supply 
of light from a single large window 
on the north and a double one on the 
east, but most of it was absorbed by 
lusterless old blue walls, mahogany 
furniture and woodwork, and a dark 
blue rug. 
The problem was further compli¬ 
cated by a low ceiling which was made 
to appear still lower by a covering of 
light blue paper besprinkled with 
gold stars, and by the horizontal 
division of the walls with a dado of 
plain blue, the paper above being fig¬ 
ured with brassy gold and finished 
with a 12" frieze. 
The first step was to strip off the 
paper and paint the woodwork and 
ceiling ivory white. The walls were 
then painted a velvety gray delicately 
mottled with faint old rose and ivory. 
Care was taken to avoid making the 
gray too light as the ample illumina¬ 
tion made a medium tone preferable. 
This treatment was continued with¬ 
out a break from baseboard to the 
ivory picture molding placed at the 
ceiling angle, and had the effect of 
pushing up the ceiling at least a foot. 
With warm, rich old rose damask 
draperies and chair cushions in place 
of the former dreary blue, and a rug 
of deep rose shading into mahogany 
with touches of ivory and black, the 
room was completely metamorphosed 
in its atmosphere as well as its ap¬ 
parent proportions. 
The principle of scale may be ap¬ 
plied to the small living room in two 
ways. The first has for its object 
the production of an illusion of har- 
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