HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, 
1909 
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room wall paper. This, 
however, she used on the 
dining-room side. The 
living-room side was of 
old blue wool damask. 
The scheme of blue, 
brown and smoke gray 
extended to both rooms. 
The hall walls were 
covered with a soft, 
golden brown, Japanese 
grass cloth, and the wood¬ 
work was finished with 
the same deep ivory 
enamel. The Saraband 
rug showed old rose, blue, 
ivory and green in its 
design and was harmo¬ 
nious. The ceilings 
throughout were tinted 
a lighter shade than the 
ivory white woodwork 
and extended to the pic¬ 
ture rail. 
In the principal bed¬ 
room on the second floor 
some fine old pieces of mahogany were used; real heirlooms 
these were, and the young mistress of the house particularly 
desired to provide a setting for this furniture which would be 
characteristic. On the walls she had used a small diamond- 
pattern Colonial paper in two tones of oatmeal color, and at 
the windows dainty white muslin embroidered curtains, made 
with 2^-inch frills, were hung next the glass, with over-draperies 
of dull blue flax. The same muslin used for curtains draped 
the four-poster and for the floor covering she had planned a Wil¬ 
ton velvet rug of the same small 
design as the wall paper, com¬ 
pleted by a border of larger pat¬ 
tern. But this, it was found, 
would have cost $85.00 or $90.00, 
and was, therefore, quite out of 
the question. A body-Brussels 
rug was the next choice; this 
cost $35.00, but somehow when 
laid on the floor, although va¬ 
rious designs and colors were 
tried, seemed crude and quite 
“out of the picture.’’ Finally 
some one suggested that she try a 
rag rug. Her dealer explained to 
her that such rugs could be gotten 
in any shade or combination at a 
very modest cost of $18.00. She 
selected a clear blue-and-white 
without border, the blue exactly 
matching the blue of her curtains. 
In the adjoining chamber, her 
husband’s room, the wood trim of. 
oak was stained dark brown and 
the room furnished in craftsman 
or mission furniture of the same 
tone. The walls were covered 
in stripe paper in soft sage green 
shades. In this room there would 
be no muslin curtains used at the 
windows, but self-colored pongee, 
finished with a conventional sten¬ 
cil design as a border, was 
chosen. The bedspread 
was also to be made of 
the pongee, with the same 
design, and there was a 
flat slip for the bolster 
of the same material. The 
appropriate floor covering 
here, it seemed, was a 
bungalow rug with a plain 
sage green center and 
lighter tone border, cost¬ 
ing $26.50. 
The guest chamber on 
this floor was fitted with 
white enameled furniture. 
The wall covering of oys¬ 
ter-white dotted paper 
had a narrow floral bor¬ 
der, and gay rose-flowered 
cretonne was used for cur¬ 
tains and cushions. 
Through the design of 
this fabric ran and twisted 
a blue ribbon. The rug, 
it was decided, must show 
this same blue. A so-called tapestry Brussels supplied her 
with this color in the background and at intervals showed 
quaint little pink rose buds in the pattern. This rug was cheap 
but decorative, and well suited to this room as it would receive 
less than ordinary wear. 
Now there remained the billiard-room and the bachelor’s 
room on the third floor. The former room was simple in design, 
the hazel woodwork being stained to a warm effect of Circassian 
walnut, corresponding with the frame of the billiard table — a 
wedding gift. The other furni¬ 
ture was made up of easy lounging 
chairs of wicker, two wing chairs 
upholstered in tapestry of rich 
color and effective design, and 
built-in window seats. The walls 
were tinted in a shade of golden 
yellow which harmonized delight¬ 
fully with the yellow and rich 
brown tones of the woodwork. 
At the windows, curtains of green 
Singapore lattice were hung, but 
the floor! what could be used to 
take the place of the Oriental run¬ 
ners she had pictured to com¬ 
plete this room? By this time 
her resources were considerably 
dwindled, and there was but very 
little money to spend. After 
much indecision she finally de¬ 
cided upon single widths of grass 
matting, the strong green and 
tan of this fitting perfectly into 
the color schemes of the room. It 
was used around the billiard table 
and in front of the long win¬ 
dow seat and seemed to supply 
all that was needed to make the 
dark brown floor appear suffi¬ 
ciently covered. 
In the bachelor’s room a gayly 
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If you cannot afford an Oriental, there are excellent American rugs now made in 
good colorings, at one-sixth the cost 
For the living-room a domestic rug, 9x12 ft., cost $50 
