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House 6 “ Garden 
Even a door knob may express 
your good taste in decoration 
O NLY after your home is completed and your 
furniture is in place can you realize fully the 
wisdom of choosing hardware that is appropriate 
as well as secure. 
Consider this trim Sargent knob of solid bronze 
with its quaint “tear drop” escutcheon. These 
designs, inherited from Colonial days, are in com¬ 
plete accord with the white paneled door and the 
studied simplicity of the interior. 
There are Sargent styles to agree with every 
architectural and decorative plan—escutcheons, 
door knobs, cylinder locks and various kindred 
hardware. All are beautifully designed, and as 
lasting as the home. 
Before you start to build, send for the Sargent 
Book of Designs and with your architect select the 
locks and hardware which will add most to the 
beauty and convenience of your new home. 
SARGENT & COMPANY 
Hardware Manufacturers 
31 Water Street New Haven, Conn. 
The prevailing colors in this country house 
bedroom are mauve and white. The hangings 
are mauve linen over while net curtains and 
oyster white gauze inner curtains 
COLOR SCHEMES /»r BEDROOMS 
{Continued from page 61) 
place facings and hearth are dark green 
marble. The window curtains, which are 
very simple, but beautifully draped, are of 
green taffeta of the same cool tone as the 
carpet. Having established the green 
quality of the room, the other colors re¬ 
peated are pale yellow, deep rosy peach- 
color, and old white. 
This room was furnished almost en¬ 
tirely with old things, and, as it is prac¬ 
tically impossible to find a pair of old 
single beds, we took an old bed which had 
headboard and footboard of the same 
height and made two beds of it, using 
the tall boards at the head and making a 
pair of beds without footboards, with 
only small shaped posts to hold the mat¬ 
tress in position. A length of old damask 
patterned with rose, apricot, yellow, and 
green which just covered two headboards 
of the beds was found, and the bedspreads 
and valances were made of a changeable 
rose and yellow silk, finished with little 
ruffles which had their edges frayed to a 
depth of half an inch. These little frayed 
ruffles look as if they were fringed with 
yellow. The photograph which shows the 
bed also shows a sensible way of breaking 
a long uninteresting wall space. We did 
not wish to put a number of pictures on 
the wall, and in order to give it a little 
variation we made two large panels 
against which the headboards of the beds 
were to be placed, and a small center 
panel filled with a mirror against which a 
night table was to be placed. This simple 
use of a mirror enlivens the whole wall of 
the room. 
The old silk used in the headboards of 
the beds gave the key for the colors which 
should be used against this green—^yellow, 
peach color, and old white. The old white 
was already well established by the old 
white wood of the headboards of the beds 
and the mantel. It was repeated in white 
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This bedroom was planned around a beautiful old white and gold 
French bed. The bedspread and valance are of changeable taffeta in 
brownish mauve 
