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Rugs for Bungalows 
N excellent rug for use in the country 
* house or bungalow is the Caledon 
Rug. This rug is made in Scotland, of 
wool, the dyes of which are sunproof. They 
cannot be absolutely guaranteed against 
continuous strong sunlight, but the effect, if 
a little fading does take place, is rather 
more desirable than otherwise, as it only 
softens the whole effect, blending one tone 
into another. However, they may be safe¬ 
ly called “unfadeable,” as the change, if 
any, is very slight, merely harmonizing the 
whole. 
Another very desirable fea¬ 
ture of the Caledon Rug is 
that it can be made to your 
own colors. It is sometimes 
difficult in carrying out the 
color scheme of a room to pro¬ 
vide a floor covering that will 
harmonize with the other fur¬ 
nishing, but in the case of 
these rugs you can submit 
water color slips of the three 
main colors of your room, des¬ 
ignating which is to be the 
body color, the color of the 
design, and the outline color. 
These must be judiciously ar¬ 
ranged so that the main color 
will be soft and unobtrusive. 
If a brilliant color is used, 
have it for some small pattern 
of the design. A soft buff or 
tan is usually the best color 
for the outline and with the 
two intermediate tones made 
by the interweaving of the 
three principal colors, the ef¬ 
fect will be of a five-color rug. 
Caledon Rugs are made in 
various patterns, some with 
all-over designs and others 
with a plain background with 
a wide border for large rugs, 
or a narrow border, scarcely 
more than six inches, for 
small rugs. No rug is woven 
less than one yard wide, and 
these, made in any length, are 
for halls or bathrooms. The 
designs are running flower 
patterns or repeating patterns 
of conventionalized flowers in charming 
art nouveau designs. 
These rugs are particularly appropriate 
for a summer cottage or bungalow. The 
weave is close and firm, so the rugs are a 
good weight and are very easy to keep 
clean, a sweeping with the carpet-sweeper 
every day maintains them in excellent con¬ 
dition. The permanence of the colors is 
a very desirable quality for the rug that is 
exposed to much sunshine, as all furnish¬ 
ings of a summer house are very likely 
to be. 
One would imagine that a made-to-order 
rug would be very expensive, but these 
wool rugs are cheap enough. The price is 
reckoned at $4.00 a square yard for the 
lighter weight, or $6.50 a square yard for 
a very heavy weave. This makes the 
lighter weight rug, which measures 9x9, 
cost $36.00. or $48.00 for 39x12 rug—and 
so on. The lighter weight rug is usually pre¬ 
ferred. The Caledon rug can be woven 
almost any size. There are a few sizes for 
which looms have not been provided, but 
many more than the regular stock sizes are 
to be had in these made-to- 
order rugs. 
Perhaps the very best fea¬ 
ture of all is that the rug made 
to your order and color 
scheme is not to be seen in 
every store or other homes. 
You have something distinct¬ 
ive, and the stranger on enter¬ 
ing your home knows that you 
have given time and thought 
and personal attention to the 
furnishing of your house. 
There are more expensive 
and more elegant rugs which 
may be made to your own de¬ 
sign as well as color scheme. 
A very heavy hand-tufted rug 
made in Ireland is called the 
Donegal and costs from $15.00 
to almost $100.00 a square 
yard. A little less expensive 
rug which may be made to 
order in color and design is a 
Scotch axminster. which costs 
from about $12.00 to $50.00 a 
square yard. 
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A rug which can be woven to order for you in colors and designs 
to match the rest of the furnishings. This border matches the 
freize on the wall paper 
A Spring Cleaning Sug¬ 
gestion 
'OW many times do we 
hear, “Oh, I wonder 
what I can do for this stub¬ 
born drawer”? It may be 
either in the bureau or the 
buffet, or the desk or in the 
kitchen cabinet, yet the person 
who makes the impatient ex¬ 
clamation is generally the one 
who forgets in the next minute 
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