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House & Garden 
CREAM 
AND APPLE GREEN FOR 
THE COTTAGE 
A Simple Summer Arrangement of Color 
For Five Small Rooms 
WEYMER MILLS 
THE HALL 
Walls: Cream. 
Woodwork: A bluish apple green. 
Floor Covering: A cream and green linoleum in large squares to 
imitate marble. 
In front of the hat-rack a hook rug with an arrangement of 
quaint, soft colored flowers or a portrait of some farm pet, per¬ 
haps a horse or dog. 
Furniture: An early American style hat-rack in shape of a lyre. 
This can be painted cream and stenciled with gold and green 
ivy leaves. 
A simple hall table with spindle legs decorated to match the 
hat-rack. 
On either side of the table a Windsor chair—a copy of an 
early English or American model painted the bluish apple 
green of the woodwork. 
The chairs should have flat cushioned seats covered with old 
American glazed chintz in which a sealing-wax red tone predomi¬ 
nates. The baluster rail can be painted this same red and any 
hall pictures, old prints suggested, shoul have red frames to carry 
out the effect. 
THE LIVING ROOM 
Walls: Cream. 
Woodwork: A bluish apple green, with more blue than the hall. 
Chimney Piece: Simple Georgian design in wood. The fireplace 
tiled with copies of 18th Century Dutch tiles, yellow birds on 
blue branches suggested. 
Over the chimney piece: An old portrait in which pink and 
red predominate. 
On the chimney piece: Blue and white dolphin candlesticks 
and other ornaments of the same glass. 
Window Curtains: Chintz blinds or shades of a pattern of pink 
and white roses on a green ground. 
Under-curtains: Heavily pleated green tarleton, a variety com¬ 
monly known as mosquito net. 
Furniture: A large circular maple table, a settee, a reading chair, 
a sewing chair and several occasional chairs and tables—the 
same wood suggested. 
Floor Covering: Pale green Japan matting. 
In such a room the lamp shades can be made of pale green 
paper bound with apple green and for any chair covering a 
pink, white, and apple green chintz should be used. White 
pottery urns holding white and mauve garden flowers would be 
effective as table decorations. 
THE DINING ROOM 
Walls: Cream. 
Woodwork: Cream. 
Floor Covering: Stained apple green and varnished. 
Furniture: Table and chairs, any copies of pleasing 18th Century 
models painted white. The seat cushions of heavy cream col¬ 
ored china silk. 
Curtains: Curtains in such a room should be heavy white linen 
or cotton bound with a cream silk braid. A pleated valance 
would be effective. The dining room windows should open 
upon a flowering garden. 
The table ware should be coarse cream colored pottery if a 
white table cloth is used. The centre piece, a cream vase holding 
white flowers. The glasses and any glass table ornaments, of 
apple green Venetian glass. 
A LARGE BEDROOM 
Walls: Apple green. 
Woodwork: Cream. 
Floor Covering: Cream Japan matting. 
Window Curtains: Pink and white striped chintz or pink and 
white checked gingham. 
Furniture: Painted furniture of cream white and pink, copies of 
Sheraton shapes suggested. 
The pictures is such a room should be soft 18th Century water 
colors of flowers or modem reproductions of the same. Cream 
frames would be effective; each picture hanging from a pink 
silk cord the color of the pink in the chintz. 
For rugs, large rag rugs in shades of pink and green are sug¬ 
gested. 
A SMALL BEDROOM 
Walls: Cream. 
Woodwork: Cream. 
Floor Covering: Apple green velvet carpet with cream border one 
yard wide. 
Window Curtains: Cream linen chintz with design of mauve 
flowers and foliage. 
Furniture: Painted furniture of pale mauve with decorations of 
deep purple grapes and green grape leaves. Victorian walnut 
pieces, obtainable at any second-hand shop, are suggested for 
repainting. 
The pictures in such a room should be two or three amusing 
samplers or pieces of Victorian needlework, birds or flowers. 
Apple green frames would be effective, each picture hanging 
from a cream silk cord. 
