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A plain sateen is used for the bed covering 
and on the one upholstered chair. The wool 
rug is also without design, thus confitiing 
all the decoration to the walls 
An interesting room was evolved from the 
use of jade green sateen for hangings and a 
smart dark blue chintz with touches of rose 
and mauve in the design, for the furniture, 
some of which was painted the delicate jade 
green with a line of dark blue as the decoration. 
The wall paper was a delicate gray and the 
carpet a deeper shade of the same color. One 
or two of the smaller pieces of furniture were 
in walnut and the dressing table hung with 
the jade green sateen was smart with dark blue 
glass bottles. 
A very tiny room was fascinating in a com¬ 
bination of oyster white, blue and salmon color. 
It was the furniture that was oyster white, with 
a nosegay of blue and salmon colored flowers, 
the curtains salmon colored silk, ruffled and 
tied back, and there were two or three bright 
blue tables, whereas the dressing table in its 
stiff white muslin skirts edged in blue looked 
like a crinoline. 
A Toile de Jouy, 18th Century in design, in 
several tones of rose on a cream colored ground, 
was used as a wall covering in a very feminine 
room. 
All the furniture was Louis XVI. in tones 
of cream, and the small comfortable slipper 
chair was upholstered in the deepest tone of 
rose taffeta. The woodwork was also cream, and 
at the windows hung white thin muslin cur¬ 
tains edged with a narrow lace. Two straight 
emerald green vases stood on the little mantel, 
filled with old fashioned nosegays of roses. 
A Water Lily Room 
The soft delicate colorings of a water lily 
were the inspiration for one particularly cool 
and restful room. The walls were painted 
that warm yellow which is at the heart of the 
flower, and at the windows hung silk gauze 
curtains of a delightfully soft green tone. 
Most of the furniture was painted a mellow 
cream, with a delicate tracery’ of water lilies. 
On the chaise longue, a watery blue sateen was 
the background for a mass of small taffeta 
cushions covered in the varying delicate tones 
of rose, blue, green and yellow, which make 
water lilies so alluring. 
A rug in soft watery blue was used. The 
dressing table was smart in crisp yellow or¬ 
gandie. 
Another color combination which is most at¬ 
tractive is the old-fashioned tea rose yellow 
and delicate heliotrope. With such a plan the 
furniture might be painted a delicate heliotrope 
with a line of gray and a,very fine line of yellow. 
The chaise longue and little slipper chair 
could be covered in a yellow and mauve chintz 
and at the windows a tea rose yellow cotton 
crepe would be effective. 
A gray green rug could be used in this room 
The Queen Anne block paper comes on linen 
ground with mauve, blue and rose in the 
design, or in a delicate combination of gray, 
pale yellow and blue. $.75 a roll 
and the walls might be painted a delicate mi¬ 
gnonette green. 
One or two spots of deeper mauve in the 
way of cushions and toilet articles would be 
effective, and the dressing table could be hung 
in the chintz. 
Among the new linens there is a particularly 
luscious shade of watermelon pink, which 
would be sufficient to form the nucleus of a 
pleasing color combination. It comes 36" wide 
at $1.75 a yard, and could be used as window 
curtains bound with a blue linen, and also to 
cover either arm chair or chaise longue. In 
combination with it, a strong blue swiss dotted 
with white would be most attractive, for the 
dressing table. This comes 31" wide at $2.25 
a yard. White ruffled muslin bed covers could 
be used with this plan, lined with a pink sateen. 
Mahogany furniture would be appropriate, 
with the walls panelled in ivory color and a 
line of strong blue in the molding. 
The Question of Costs 
The following is a complete list of the fur¬ 
niture mentioned in the article and pictured in 
the two views above: 
2 Mahogany four posters, 3 feet, 3 inches out¬ 
side width @ $26.50 each. $53.00 
2 Special black hair mattresses @ $37.00 each 74.00 
2 Box springs @ $26.50 each. 53.00 
1 Chifforobe, 36 inches wide. 70.00 
1 Toilet mirror . 17.50 
1 Rush seat stool. 12.00 
1 Night table . 16.00 
1 Chair . 57.00 
2?4 yards 50 inch material @ $1.05 a yard... 2.37 
1 Queen Anne mahogany mirror. 29.00 
1 Dressing table hung with dotted swiss. 35.00 
1 9 x 12 wool rug, reversible and seamless... 60.00 
2 Pairs dotted swiss curtains @ $16.00 a pair 32.00 
2 Sateen bed covers @ $24.00. 48.00 
1 Rush seated side chair @ $18.00. 18.00 
2 Painted tin lamps with parchment paper 
shades to match @ $22.50. 45.00 
