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House & Garden 
The garret bedroom can have white sanded walls, a leaf-green carpet, curtains and covers of rose, gray and white striped silk, and be fur- 
nished with a complete dressing table and bench, a four-poster with a flounced cover, a tallboy, desk and comfortable chair 
GLORIFIED GARRETS 
Up At The Top of The House Can Be Furnished A Living Room, A Bedroom 
or A Nursery That Will Be a Constant Delight 
I N every house more than two stories high, 
there is always one room or two stuck up 
under the eaves where you can look down at 
the tree-tops and up at the stars, or cozily lis¬ 
ten to the delicious patter of the rain on the 
roof, though it never occurs to you to do any 
of these things, for it is only your garret up 
there under the eaves. 
And you fill it with old things, with packing 
cases and trunks, with furniture of yesterday 
awaiting the magic touch of the restoring man, 
with the children’s broken toys and last sea¬ 
son’s dresses, and with huge piles of treasured 
House & Garden magazines you just can’t bear 
to throw away. 
You keep your treasures in your attic, also 
your hetes noires, but you rarely look at them, 
for your garret is to you a consecrated dumping 
ground of sorts for all the things which you 
lazily don.’t know how to use, or how quite to 
throw away, and gathered under its friendly 
shelter it is both pleasant and easy to forget 
them. 
But if you do not know the real delight of a 
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dormer room, you cannot know what you are 
missing by not using to their last inch these 
rooms at the top of your house. You may 
make them into fascinating living rooms, libra¬ 
ries, study rooms, work shops, studios, guest 
rooms, or nurseries, for as such they will more 
than satisfy that ever-present but sometimes 
unrecognized homely heart’s desire to get far 
away from the madding crowd, alone at the top 
of the world. The cozy, shut-in quality of an 
attic dormer room, supplied with comfortable 
chairs, twinkling candlelights, glowing lamps 
and a hearth fire is only to be equaled by the 
vastness of the surrounding world, the burning 
sunsets to be fathomed from the high windows, 
the mystery of the twilights enveloping it so 
closely, the .leagues of midnight sky stretching 
over it and away. 
A Dormer Living Room 
Suppose you furnish your dormer room as a 
special living room for the family, doing it 
with a care as great as that which accomplished 
the living room below stairs: suppose you do! 
I suggest you make the walls a misty gray, 
either painting or water-tinting them, using a 
bit of sand in the mixing to obtain a friendly 
roughness of texture; then cover the floor with 
a large dark rug that will stand the test of 
time and eager feet—it might show brown in 
it, and black, together with what other colors 
you may wish, and so flexible are the conven¬ 
tions here that you may choose anything from 
a Wilton to a dark rag rug, or one of those 
stunning two-color grass rugs seen erstwhile in 
sun parlors and on porches. Or if you fancy 
small rugs and a polished floor you have at 
your disposal sumptuous Orientals or quaintly 
braided rugs in oval shape, in dun and flaming 
colors. 
You have many choices in the way of fur¬ 
nishing your living room under the roof; in 
the more formal living rooms you may hesitate 
to follow a delightful whim; there is the fear 
that you might tire of this or that; or perhaps 
you pause overlong before daring materials too 
modest in their price to warrant their true 
effect; but in this room upstairs there is a cer- 
