House and Garden 
THE NEW TREATMENT OF THE PAREOR 
order to get the tone desired. The mantel 
already in the room—one of those white 
marble affairs of a half French character, 
so prevalent in 
houses built 
during a period 
of aimless de¬ 
sign—of course 
could not be 
tolerated, so 
I contrived 
another of pop¬ 
lar wood which 
would ht over 
and around the 
marble and pro¬ 
vide lockers and 
boo k-s h elves. 
This we stained 
the gray-brown 
color. The cur¬ 
tains at these 
book-shelves are stencilled paper 
of purple cashmere. 1 he cushions of chairs 
and divan are in heavy wrinkled sheepskin 
of a gray-brown. The old gas fixtures were 
red bronze; to 
these I gave the 
antique vert 
effect. In the 
halls and stair¬ 
ways the walls 
and ceilings 
were continuous 
throughout, and 
as we preferred 
the main hall cut 
off from the stair¬ 
case hall, we had 
built in a frame 
of door height 
and carried the 
upper wall and 
cornice across it, 
bringing the gas 
in a bedroom outlet down 
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