Furnishing a Portable House for $150 
The same material should be used for chair cushions 
and to border a table cover of green linen. 
A corner cupboard should be built in the dining¬ 
room end and utilized to hold a set of cottage dishes, 
gaily decorated with red and yellow tulips and green 
leaves. Such a set of sixty-two pieces may be pur¬ 
chased for $6.00. 
The drapery materials, cushions and table 
covers for this room would cost $7.00. In the 
center of the long room a kitchen table might be 
placed; in size sixty inches by thirty inches, this 
would cost $3.38. The base and legs are of hard 
wood and can be finished to suit the furniture of the 
room. This table wearing the green linen cover 
would introduce a pleasing bit of color. On it 
a low glass lamp should find a place with a spread¬ 
ing shade of wicker, lined with dull green silk. The 
lamp and shade complete would cost $4.60. Also 
this table could be utilized for books and maga¬ 
zines, and a large bowl of grey pottery holding 
dogwood blossoms, or other woodland flowers, would 
prove decorative. 
Grass fiber rugs in sizes eight feet by ten feet and 
four feet six inches by seven feet six inches would 
supply the necessary floor covering. These rugs 
show a clear clean green with bits of yellow-tan 
introducing the design. I he quality of the fiber is 
excellent and they are durable. The price of the 
larger rug is $5.75 and the runner is $2.50. 
A round dining table with drop leaves of oak, in 
size forty inches by thirty-six inches, could be pur¬ 
chased for $8.25. This should show a dark oak 
stain, the same stain being used on all furniture. 
Three straight chairs and two rockers with cane 
backs and seats would be serviceable for use in this 
room, the straight chairs, $3.40 each, the rockers, 
$3.75. An easy chair of willow, with half back and 
seat cushions covered with the same fabric as that 
used for the draperies, should be added. 
A long settle built under the south window and 
made comfortable by a mattress pad upholstered in 
plain green denim would look well. This should 
be well supplied with pillows covered with the fabric 
showing the stork design. 
A small folding table of oak, costing $3.00, would 
prove useful as a card table or in case of extra guests. 
The magazine stand, costing $4.50, may also be 
utilized to hold a pottery jar filled with wild flowers 
or branches of blossoming trees. 
The charm of the finished room would be great 
for no single incongruity would appear. All is simple 
and practical as well as inexpensive, but of color and 
form one might feel the best had been chosen for its 
decoration and furnishing. The paper required for 
this room would cost $4.00. 
A blue paper with branches of cherry blossoms 
and small brown birds flitting through the design 
would make a charming background for the simple 
fittings of the bedroom adjoining. The dimensions 
of this room are ten feet by ten feet four inches. 
I he built-in folding bed is especially advantageous 
in saving the much needed space. A dresser with a 
mirror costing $12.75, a chest of drawers at $4.50, a 
clothes tree at $3.75, a small table and two chairs, 
which could all be purchased within $10.00, would 
complete the furniture. 
Two rugs, in size three feet by six feet, might supply 
the floor covering. These woven in two tones of blue 
and white like the old-fashioned rag carpet would fit 
well into the picture, and cost but $3.50 each. White 
cheese-cloth curtains with a delicate stencil design 
in shades of blue about the edge would drape the 
windows attractively. 
The bath-room is sufficiently long to allow space 
for a small clothes closet. A bath rug and cheese¬ 
cloth curtains, with a mirror set above the stationary 
washstand, are the really necessary furnishings for 
this room, and could all be bought for $3.50. 
For the kitchen the expenditure may be increased 
or lessened as the needs of the family require. A 
kitchen table for $3.00, two kitchen chairs at $1.50 
each, a built-in corner cupboard, and a wire screened 
press at $4.00 would make a good beginning. The 
oil stove which would probably supply the most con¬ 
venient mode of cooking, the day’s work of the car¬ 
penter and the lumber required for the two corner 
cupboards, the floss and excelsior from which the 
cushions, seats, and pads may be made, together 
with the purchase of the necessary cooking utensils, 
would be fully covered by the remaining $21.82. 
A tabulated list of the furnishings follows: 
LIVING-ROOM 
Dishes . 
Draperies and table covers. 
Kitchen table. 
Lamp and shade. 
Rug . 
Dining table. 
Three straight chairs @ $3.40. 
Two rockers $3.75. 
Willow chair with cushions. 
Folding table. 
Magazine stand. 
Paper. 
BEDROOM 
Dresser. 
Chest of drawers. 
Clothes tree. 
Table and two chairs. 
Two rugs $3.50. 
Paper . 
BATH-ROOM 
Rug, curtains, and mirror. 3 50 
KITCHEN 
Table. $3 00 
Two chairs @ qfi. 50. 3 00 
Wire screened press. 4 00 
-10 00 
Incidentals. 21 82 
Total. $150 00 
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