HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 1910 
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crepe in small patterns of one color on 
white are best adapted to this purpose. 
Where it is necessary to combine the 
curtain and window-shade in one, the use 
of a light-weight India printed cotton has 
been found excellent for the purpose. 
A very delicate Persian pattern printed 
in black on a white ground with a mere 
suggestion of Rose color in the outline of 
a flower, was chosen for a living-room 
where the windows were of small panes 
and moderate size. I. D. B. 
Mats for Kitchen and Bath 
S OMETHING new in the way of kit¬ 
chen and bath mats has appeared as 
a result of the ingenuity of manufactur¬ 
ers of things for the house. These kit¬ 
chen and bath mats are woven from trim¬ 
mings of new table oilcloths in much the 
same manner as the rag rug is woven, 
and when placed before the kitchen sink, 
table, stove, etc., save the linoleum or 
floor underneath. These mats have only 
to be wiped up when soiled, thus saving 
the labor of the cleaning' necessary to 
many other sorts of kitchen floor cover¬ 
ings. For use in bathrooms it is said 
they are both sanitary and cleanly in ap¬ 
pearance and do not hold dampness. 
The mats come in pretty stripe and 
mottled effects, in dark colors on a brown 
warp for kitchen use and in daintv shades 
of blue, green, and lavender on a white 
warp for bath use. Moreover, they are 
comparatively inexpensive. 
A Wistaria Bedroom 
TT is now possible to obtain harmonious 
decorations throughout in wistaria 
colors and patterns for wistaria bedrooms. 
Very lovely new wall papers, chintzes, 
Wistaria bedroom papers are now obtain¬ 
able to carry out an effective scheme 
printed linens, rugs and screens are at 
one’s command for carrying out such a 
decorative scheme. One of the rugs now 
shown in New York shops has a gray 
ground with an all-around pattern of lav¬ 
ender wistaria flowers, and makes a most 
effective floor covering:. 
T. S. 
How much distinction can be added to a 
room in a period style by consistent hard¬ 
ware even down to the window lifts 
Bungalow Candlesticks 
NE of the newest things in candle¬ 
sticks consists in an adaptation of 
the Japanese floor-lanterns. These stand 
from one to three feet high, or even high¬ 
er, for floor or table, and are lacquered 
supports, Japanesque in shape and Vermil¬ 
lion in color, with brass mountings to hold 
the candle and graceful, deep globes to 
prevent the wind from blowing out the 
candle flames. They are designed for large 
candles, and, thus protected from air cur¬ 
rents, burn with a fairly strong steady 
light for a long while. They are just the 
thing for the summer cottage, bungalow 
or camp, taking the place of hot lamps. 
Color-scheme for Maple Wood¬ 
work 
HAVE two adjoining bedrooms. The 
woodwork in one is bird’s-eye maple, 
and in the other light maple. Will you 
kindly suggest a color scheme for the deco¬ 
ration? The light maple room will be tinted, 
but the other must be papered, as it has been 
papered before. This room is now pink, but 
1 have grown very tired of it. The case¬ 
ment windows in both rooms are very at¬ 
tractive and have window-seats. The floors 
are hard wood, and I am willing to buy new 
rugs. The rugs I have for both rooms are 
rag rugs, white with brown borders. I have 
one set of deep ivory tinted enamel furni¬ 
ture. The rooms are lighted by gas. The 
chandeliers are very good in pattern, but as 
they are wrought iron, the one in the pink 
room has always seemed too black. Do you 
send samples to your subscribers? 
N. E. E. 
Chose a soft whitish gray ingrain paper 
for your bird’s-eye maple bedroom. Tint 
the ceilings a deep cream. Select pale 
poppy-green over curtains, and valance 
for same for your windows, and upholster 
the window-seat with the same. Your 
sash curtains may be the color of the ceil¬ 
ing. Some well selected color-prints (es¬ 
pecially Japanese prints with blue, rose 
and brick-red tones) framed in very nar¬ 
row (half-inch) black frames will be just 
the thing for the walls. Do not use gilt 
frames. Unless your furniture in use now 
is to stand in the re-decorated room you 
may find that it is not right for it. How¬ 
ever, the white furniture can be retained, 
in which case the sash curtains should be 
white. The muslin chiffoniere and bureau 
covers should be lined with deep green, 
which, coming through the muslin, will be 
the tone of the pale green curtains. Nat¬ 
ural wood furniture with a dull gray- 
green stain, would be best for the room. 
Your rugs can be of the same sort that 
you have had, but should be in poppy 
green with cream-colored borders and 
cream-colored warp fringe. Your second 
room may have walls tinted in light canary 
color, pale lemon-colored sash curtains 
with brown over-curtains valanced as in 
the other room. The window-seat may 
be upholstered in yellow. Tint the ceiling 
a very pale yellow. Use your deep tinted 
ivory furniture for this room. We are al¬ 
ways glad to send samples of the mate¬ 
rials and colors suggested and to refer our 
subscribers to reliable dealers when they 
request it. 
Consistent Interior Hardware 
N OW that so much more attention is 
being paid to consistent interior 
decoration, the matter of hardware fix¬ 
tures and trimmings, such as door-knobs, 
key plates, 
handles, win¬ 
dow catches, 
etc., are com¬ 
ing to be se- 
1 e c t e d for 
their appro¬ 
priateness to 
the plan of 
the whole 
decor ative 
scheme. For 
instance, a 
period room 
in Empire 
style should 
have well de¬ 
signed E m - 
pire fixtures; 
a room in 
Louis XV 
style, fixtures 
to suit, and 
so on. Rooms 
in other 
styles, Colon- 
i a 1 , Crafts- 
m an, e t c., 
may be fitted 
without diffi¬ 
culty with 
the proper 
sort of archi¬ 
tectural hard- 
w a r e, and 
every person 
planning a 
house, particularly a small house where 
such matters are more often apt to receive 
less attention than pretentious dwellings, 
will have no difficulty in finding the suit¬ 
able things for the place in mind. 
The two illustrations shown herewith — 
the window-sash lift and the escutcheon — 
are of the Louis XVI School, evident in 
French art from 1774 to 1792. Hardware 
of this sort is obtainable in cast brass or 
cast bronze, and in finishes known as “old 
brass," imitation gold, oxidized silver and 
in genuine gold plate. 
For your Louis XVI re¬ 
ception room or library 
