How We Made a Commonplace House Attractive 
through the frame. I hen a lamp was de¬ 
signed and supporting figures modelled. 
Both these are finished in vert bronze. 
The lower wall in the front hall for six feet 
in height is covered in golden brown burlap, 
each wall space panelled with a small painted 
design. The upper wall is a lighter golden 
contains a small design of a head relieved by 
brilliant colorings. 
1 he main bed-room has a papered dado 
of dark green fabric effect. The upper wall 
and ceiling in pale lemon-yellow pulp paper. 
On the upper wall I have painted a brier and 
rose in conventional manner. All the wood 
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color on which is painted a conventional 
tree motive, the tops forming a continuous 
frieze. 
The tree motive is repeated in the stencilled 
net curtains at the vestibule doors and also in 
the brackets for the figures. T he hall seat 
designed to fill the purpose of hat and coat 
rack is in oak, stained soft green with some 
brighter colors occasionally run into the 
grain. Each of the three panels of the back 
work is in ivory tone and the furniture is 
antique mahogany. 
In the bath-room the window had panes of 
stippled white painted glass. Not consider¬ 
ing it warrantable to put in leaded glass in a 
rented house, we merely painted a design of 
water and lilies in colors on the window as it 
was. The other rooms have been treated in 
a way conforming to the general purpose of 
each. 
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