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Your Cheerful, Welcoming Hallway 
Hospitality here begins its royal rites; it is 
here we bid Welcome! and wish Godspeed! Hither, 
too, in lucky houses, scurry baby feet as the day ends 
and the Best-of-Men comes happily home. So much 
of Life happens in the hallway. It needs must be a 
bonny place. It ought to be a pleasant place! 
It is not hard nowadays to have it so. Your hall¬ 
way can be all you wish, simply through the wise 
choice and skilful use of Wall Paper. 
From the right Wall Paper, even the littlest nar- 
? row hall gains breadth and height and presence! Un- ® 
papered, is the hallway dim and depressing? Why, 
; then, let Wall Paper make it glow with light and be , 
cheerful with sprightly color. 
Does a hallway, unpapered, seem huge and grim 
and barnlike? Wall Paper will magically change its 
formidable angularities into graceful contours, and 
give it a lovely guise of inviting intimacy. 
And in all America today, there is hardly a place 
so remote but it has a paperhanger fully able to help 
forward your aspiration toward beauty and fitness in 
your home. You can identify such a craftsman by 
the emblem published here. 
Moreover, this emblem points you to the choice 
of the newest and loveliest creations of the art of 
Wall Paper in America, which are in that guilds- 
man’s hands foryour inspection. 
PUBLISHED FOR 
WALL PAPER MANUFACTURERS’ ASSOCIATION 
I of America. Headquarters: New York City \ 
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Suitable for a living ro’orn is 
this Wilton rug in soft shades 
of rose, tan and black on a 
deep blue or tan ground. W. 
& J. Sloane 
House & Garden 
Because they blend with other 
furnishings, Chinese rugs are 
popular. This is in rose, tan 
and black on blue. W. & J. 
Sloane 
Making the Floor Count 
(Continued from page 90) 
lines this type of rug brings a certain 
dignity and interest possessed by no 
other floor covering. For dining rooms 
it is both decorative and practical and I 
would especially recommend an Oriental 
rug for large halls where there is much 
floor space to cover and usually not a 
great amount of interest in the other 
furnishings. Halls, too, are apt to be 
rather dark, and here the rich colors in 
the rug will do much to brighten and 
make inviting an interior too often drab 
in tone. 
Chinese rugs have become deservedly 
popular of late, perhaps because they 
blend so well with many forms of deco¬ 
ration. With their soft colors, and in¬ 
triguing designs, they make charming 
backgrounds for 18th Century English 
furniture and combine well with gay 
flowered chintzes. 
The most difficult room to choose a 
rug for is the dining room, for-nowhere 
else does a carpet get quite as hard and 
varied wear. The continual going to and 
fro, the inevitable spilling that occurs 
in the very best of families, the constant 
cleaning and everyday usage, demand a 
rug sturdy of build and sufficiently cov¬ 
ered in design to withstand not only 
wear but spots. Here an Oriental or a 
good domestic rug with an all-over de¬ 
sign is better than a plain floor covering 
which shows every stain and footprint 
and soon becomes shabby in appearance. 
There is such a variety of good designs 
among the Wiltons and Axminsters, 
such a wealth of color one should have 
no trouble in finding just the rug to 
bring out and complement the other 
furnishings in the room. 
A quite charming dining room might 
be made, using a rug with a small all- 
over design in tan and blue on a ground 
of deeper blue with hangings of chintz, 
walls paneled in deep cream, and 18th 
Century English furniture, the chair 
seats covered in red and cream striped 
moire. This type of floor covering 
would successfully withstand the wear 
demanded of it. 
In the same manner a small breakfast 
room with plain painted walls can be 
made interesting and charming by the 
use of a delicately figured rug. In small 
interiors it is wise to keep the pattern 
in rugs and fabrics more or less in key 
with the size of the room, but there is 
no reason why an interior should refrain 
from all hope of interest just because it 
is not large. It would be interesting to 
experiment with a small room, using a 
landscape paper of soft grays and greens. 
This would serve to push out the walls, 
giving a sense of space. The woodwork 
should be painted one of the greens in 
the paper, the hangings would be inter¬ 
esting in peach color bound in green, 
and here one might use a rug in gun- 
metal gray with a slight all-over pattern. 
The same principles should be fol¬ 
lowed in the living room, where the rug 
should equal in importance the rest of 
the furnishings. A good Oriental, of 
course, will be the dominating note. If 
a striking design is to be found in either 
hangings or upholstery, a chenille or 
Wilton rug in a plain tone will make a 
better background and be more gener¬ 
ally effective than a figured floor cover¬ 
ing which would only serve to distract 
the eye and clash with the patterns in 
the other furnishings. 
Chenille rugs come in a large variety 
of colors, either plain or two-tone and 
can be woven any width up to 30'. The 
soft, long pile renders them unusually 
luxurious in appearance and the ideal 
floor covering in rooms where one 
wishes to have figured walls or patterned 
hangings. In this case the floor simply 
must be kept low in key,—a background 
only. 
Black rugs are very smart just now, 
especially if one uses plenty of color 
elsewhere. A room can be made amus¬ 
ing and gay with walls and woodwork 
done in blue-green, chintz hangings in 
terracotta, orange and blue over gold 
glass curtains and a black rug. 
Carpeting by the yard with a thick 
pile, if well sewn together, makes a very 
good rug and is less expensive than a 
seamless carpet woven to size. 
Old-fashioned ingrain which is woven 
like plain cloth, with no pile, is excellent 
for bedroom rugs, and, used as carpet¬ 
ing, it makes an effective background 
for small rugs. Made into rugs, it is 
light, easy to clean and moderate in cost. 
Ingrain carpets look better if well pad¬ 
ded with a layer of good quality carpet 
lining or several thicknesses of news¬ 
papers tacked to the floor. 
Hooked and rag rugs are charming in 
early American interiors. Very often a 
good effect is obtained by using a gay 
hooked rug on top of a plain rug or car¬ 
pet, in front of the fireplace or in some 
prominent place, for its interest and 
color value. 
Very new are the rugs of French felt 
shown on page 78. They can be made 
in any size and shape, and as the felt 
comes in charming colors, a delightful 
effect can be obtained with these rugs 
used either on a bare floor or against a 
neutral toned carpet. 
