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then in a collection of pictures of lilies and 
other white flowers which have pale grayish- 
blue mats and silver frames. 
Some women are so devoted to one color 
and to variations of that color that they 
employ it in all the rooms of their houses. 
One house I know is decorated entirely in 
shades of green, from the kitchen to the 
attic, and yet there is tremendous variety 
of furnishing and color. But usually a 
woman who has a number of bedrooms to 
furnish has some one color prevail in each 
room. 
The hackneyed idea of establishing a color 
scheme and following it literally never pro¬ 
duced a really interesting room. A room 
should have a certain fundamental color 
scheme, but this scheme should merely be a 
foundation against which many other sym¬ 
pathetic colors may be placed. 
In one country house near New York 
there are a dozen bedrooms of infinitely 
varied colorings, and yet each room has 
its definite hue. The room of the mistress of 
the house gives the impression of mauve and 
white, because these are the predominant 
masses, although there is also a lot of pink 
and blue and wood brown in the room, and a 
pair of fine old green lacquer commodes. 
The walls of the room are painted old 
white and the cari:)et is beige color. 
The room grew from an old white and 
gold French bed which has valances and 
bedspread of changeable taffeta of a brown¬ 
ish mauve. A printed linen was found with 
a mauve ground and flowers and turtle 
doves of many shades of dull green and 
violets. This chintz was used for the cur¬ 
tains, and for a long comfortable sofa near 
the fireplace, d'he windows have glass cur¬ 
tains of fine white net and inner curtains of 
oyster colored gauze to temper the light. 
Within the window recess on one side of the 
room a beautiful dressing table is placed. 
This dressing table is made of old white silk 
painted in many mauves, pinks and green, 
with bouquets of flowers and wheat. The 
design for the dressing table was taken from 
an old embroidered gown of the Louis Seize 
period. Rufflings of yellow thread lace over 
yellowish green ribbons form borderings on 
the dressing table. 
A chaise longue, several soft pillows which 
are used in chairs, and two lampshades in 
this room are made of a delightful French 
silk checked in gray, blue, violet, and ivory 
white. The simplicity of this checked mate¬ 
rial is refreshing in a room of such fine 
architectural design. 
The main guest room in this house is 
called the green room. The carpet is a soft, 
cool, grayish-green, and the walls are a 
very, very pale tone of the same color. The 
mantel and overmantel are old and are of 
white painted wood with little narrow panel- 
ings of yellow and gilt moldings. The fire- 
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A chaise longue covered in gray, 
blue and violet checked silk and the 
colorful printed linen hangings are 
in charming contrast to the walls 
painted in old white 
A little girl’s 
bedroom is 
furnished in 
o'd maple with 
pale gray walls 
and slip covers 
of white chintz 
patterned in 
pink and red 
flowers 
Cool grayish 
green is the 
main color 
note in the 
country house 
bedroom above. 
With this are 
used yellow, 
apricot and 
white 
