H ouse and Garden 
^6,000 in a small Western town. He wisely .accepted 
his architect’s suggestion for exterior design and 
general arrangement of the floor plan. The architect 
in turn has asked for and modified the owner’s ideas 
to his satisfaction and the house stands ready, await¬ 
ing only the life its occupants will supply. 
Upon the receipt of the floor plans of this house 
and such information as is necessary for a complete 
understanding of them, the decorator will supply a 
color scheme for the whole, submitting samples and 
cuts of the various materials and furniture. An esti¬ 
mate of cost will he made if the client desires, or the 
prices of the various goods will he submitted, allowing 
the owner to make his own estimates. 
He learns the house is vernacular in type, a small 
vestibule giving directly into the living-room. The 
plans show this room to be eighteen feet by twenty- 
two feet. The height of the ceiling is ten and one- 
half feet, exposure southwestern, detail of the stand¬ 
ing woodwork simple to plainness. Oak is the wood 
used and it has been stained gray-brown, a sample 
piece of which is sent to the decorator. 
The floor of hard wood is stained a browner tone 
than the woodwork and is polished. There are four 
casement windows and one French window, and a 
large open fireplace directly opposite the front door. 
Over this is a low mantel shelf like the woodwork of 
the room. The facing about the fireplace and the 
hearth is of dull yellow brick. 
There is no cornice used in the room, therefore the 
decorator’s scheme includes a frieze eighteen inches 
in width. The frieze chosen shows green trees effec¬ 
tively drawn against a tan-colored background. It is 
set at the ceiling line. The price of this frieze is ^1.25 
a roll of eight yards. The lower wall he determines 
to cover with a two-toned paper in the same shade of 
tan with fine waving brown lines upon it. This paper 
he tells his client makes an excellent background for 
pictures and plaster pieces, and is very inexpensive 
costing but forty cents a single roll. The picture rail 
is set at the joining of the frieze and side wall and is, of 
course, of oak finished like the woodwork of the room. 
The samples of wall-paper and frieze, together 
with draperies, submitted to the client, show him 
that they have been selected with a view of harmoniz¬ 
ing with the woodwork. 
The next consideration is the choice of floor cover¬ 
ing or rugs. As the amount of money to be expended 
on this room is limited, the decorator decides upon 
the purchase of a rug in stock size, nine by twelve, 
placed directly before the hearth. This rug will cost 
^50.00. It is of Oriental design and an excellent 
reproduction, showing a self-colored ground and the 
soft dull tones in the figures and border seen in tbe 
finest Oriental camel’s-hair. In addition a runner of 
this pattern three by twelve, costing ^22.50, will be 
used across the end of the room opening into the 
dining-room. 
Directly in front of the window seat on the west 
side of the room, a black fur rug is to be thrown. 
This rug is made from two of the Japanese goat skins 
which have been sewed together, the joining being 
imperceptible. The cost is $6.00 for the two rugs. 
The suggestion for the treatment of the casement 
and French windows was accompanied by a little 
sketch and diagram showing how the curtains should 
be made and hung. Ecru Arabian net 108 inches 
wide and priced at ninety cents a yard was the material 
submitted for the curtains next the glass. These for 
the casement windows were to be finished at the sill 
line with a three inch hem and run by a casing at the 
top (without heading) on one-quarter inch brass rods, 
tbe edges both front and back of these curtains to be 
finished with a linen tape braid costing eight cents a 
yard, the same color as the net. 
The drawing show^ed a second set of rods supported 
by two and one-half inch brackets from which hung 
curtains of thin crinkled silk of the same shade of 
green as the trees of the frieze. 
It was explained that with curtains, woodwork, and 
side wall covering in hand, the rugs were chosen, 
bearing well in mind the yellow color of the brick in 
the mantel. A lighter shade of this color was re¬ 
peated in the ceiling tint. Cuts of the fixtures for this 
room were forwarded to the decorator and found to 
agree well with the general composition of the room. 
These were of simple design and of brass given the 
old smoked finish. 
With these suggestions approved and accepted, 
the goods were shipped to the client that the paper 
might be hung and the curtains made. The next 
important consideration was the selection of the fur¬ 
niture. The size of the room required pieces heavy 
in form and construction, but as furniture of this kind 
is expensive, only a few such pieces could be afforded. 
A davenport costing $g^.oo was purchased, this to be 
set at right angles with the fireplace. An upholstered 
chair on similar lines to the davenport cost ^45.00. A 
brown oak table and two straight chairs of oak, a 
McKinley arm chair with loose cushions, and two 
willow chairs also with cushions, completed the 
furniture. 
A long window seat placed directly under the 
west window was to be upholstered in dull green 
upholsterers’ velveteen, the price being ;^2.10 a yard 
and tbe width fifty inches. This material gives 
excellent wear and holds its color well; the door 
curtain into the dining-room to be of the same 
material. A tapestry fabric costing ^2.50 a yard and 
fifty inches wide was used to upholster the daven¬ 
port and chair. This tapestry showed a foliage 
pattern in greens and tans, corresponding well with 
the colors and design in the frieze. 
At either side of the wide, low mantel shelf, flush 
with the extending chimney breast, the decorator 
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