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House & Garden 
Knowledge 
To know an exclusive Store to call upon 
when your Home requirements need 
attention is to know that the McGibbon 
Store is stocked with dignified merchan¬ 
dise for an exclusive clientele 
Household Linens 
Damask Table Cloths and Napkins of 
extra fine quality, pure Linen, and spe¬ 
cially selected designs, representing the 
best of the World’s manufactures, from 
France, Ireland and Scotland 
Mosaic Luncheon Sets, in a variety of 
handsome designs, consisting of 12 
Fingerbowls, 12 Plate Doylies and i 
Centerpiece. Splendid values. 
Madeira Luncheon Sets of thirteen 
pieces, in a fine range of designs and 
prices. 
Novelty Furniture 
Mahogany Gateleg Tables, 
Desks, Lamps and Lamp Shades 
For Table or Floor. Distinctively 
Exquisite. 
Colonial Clocks 
With Five Tubular Westminster 
Chimes. Strikes on the Quarter, 
Half, Three-Quarters and Hour 
Overstuffed Furniture 
Arm Chairs, Slipper Chairs, Wing 
Chairs, Sofas 
Willow Furniture 
illc#ifal)on $c Company 
3 West 37tli Street 
One Door from Fifth Avenue 
Glorified Garrets 
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the base of gray. And oddly enough, 
even the books on the shelves were 
keyed harmoniously in blues, greens, and 
browns. 
The very shape of these rooms with 
sloping walls suggests possibilities of 
quaintness less difficult to accomplish 
than in the rooms on the lower floors. 
You want to hang short, gray curtains 
at the casement windows of an attic 
bedroom, the room itself seems to cry 
out for Colonial things, and you simply 
can't wait to plan out a bedroom along 
these lines. It may be for a son or a 
daughter, or it may be a charming 
guest-room constantly filled with de¬ 
lighted guests. At any rate you fur¬ 
nish it with keenest pleasure, reveling in 
the freshness of white sanded walls, a 
leaf-green all-over carpet, rose, gray and 
white wide striped silk showing faint 
lines of green at the windows and as a 
covering for a stool and a pillow, a 
white flounced bedspread on the beau¬ 
tifully carved mahogany four-post, a 
delicately proportioned tallboy, a Colo¬ 
nial desk with rose and green fittings, 
rose shades on the wall sconces. 
Another Decoration Scheme 
Or you strike an entirely different 
note, though equally charming, against 
the white walls: that of furniture paint¬ 
ed a soft maple yellow and decorated 
with an occasional diminutive basket 
of posies in orange, old yellow, wood 
brown and black. At the windows you 
hang short curtains startlingly patterned 
in brown and white; on the floor you 
lay a rug of black and wood brown; 
and then such joyous notes of pure yel¬ 
low and orange as you may indulge in; 
yellow bowls that catch the sun, orange 
candles scarcely needing their lighted 
tips to shed brightness in dark places, 
clumps of sunny things in jars and vases. 
A happy little room, indeed, at the top 
of the house! 
A Nursery Under the Eaves 
And what a free and sunny place for 
little children is the garret glorified! If 
you are plentifully supplied with living 
rooms and guest-rooms below stairs, and 
are yet sighing for the convenience of 
a nursery, plan for this room up under 
your eaves. With casement windows 
looking out over sill boxes of growing 
flowers, fresh dotted Swiss curtains and 
oyster-tinted walls, you may have such 
brightly painted furniture as never be¬ 
fore delighted the hearts of children. 
Try supping your young hopefuls on 
huge bowls of bread and milk set out 
on a drop-leaf table done in intense 
king’s blue, with quaint Windsor high 
chairs to match, and they’ll clamor for 
more. Try child-size overstuffed chairs 
upholstered in old pink on which disport 
ducklings grave and gay, and your chil¬ 
dren will contentedly play the hours 
away in their room on the top of the 
world. Their toys may be pure colored, 
their blocks and their balloons, and 
against the pale neutral background of 
the walls the bright tones will be hap¬ 
pily harmonious. 
Really very little furniture is needed 
in a nursery. If it is also the sleeping 
room, the cribs or beds; then a table or 
so, the chairs, and a chest or small tall¬ 
boy for the stowing away of tiny gar¬ 
ments, and built-in low shelves and 
cupboards for toys and books. Plan 
plenty of these keeping places, for the 
room loses all its charm if it is cluttered, 
and the children a large factor in their 
training if it is not made easy for them 
to put away their things in the proper 
places. 
Color Transition Between Rooms 
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room emphasized in plain, rep, velour, 
or other upholstery material. 
It is often permissible slightly to 
vary the uniform wall scheme by using 
in the hall a small-patterned light-toned 
foliage paper with a predominating neu¬ 
tral color which is repeated on the 
walls of the adjacent rooms, taking the 
accessory colors for these rooms from 
other hues which appear in the foliage 
paper. 
A Cottage Scheme 
Several of these general principles are 
charmingly carried out in the cottage 
illustrated by the color plans, where 
the hall opens into rooms on opposite 
sides. A hall paper with cream ground 
shows foliage in tints of fawn, with 
touches of light sage green and pale 
mulberry, and the rug shows a blending 
of fawn and brown. The walls of both 
rooms are done in fawn, with wood¬ 
work and ceiling a little lighter. 
In the little north parlor a small- 
patterned Oriental rug shows tones of 
deep, grayed mulberry which harmon¬ 
ize with the mahogany gate-legged table 
and Windsor chairs. A couple of 
wicker chairs, enameled to match the 
woodwork, are cushioned with chintz 
patterned in tones of mulberry on a 
cream ground, and at the windows 
hang simple curtains of pale fawn silk 
poplin edged with narrow silk fringe in 
fawn and mulberry. A pottery jar of 
graceful lines provides a contrasting 
note of grayish-green and forms the 
connecting link between the accessory 
color schemes of this room and the one 
across the hall. 
The cool green found in the foliage 
paper is carried into the cosy sitting 
room which faces southwest. The small- 
patterned rug in sage and light browns 
is a good ground for the oak furniture 
in simple English cottage style, the 
chairs of which are cushioned in plain 
green rep. Casement curtains of cream 
net have overdraperies of sage green 
silk which pleasingly tempers the bright 
sunlight. A note of mulberry, bor¬ 
rowed from the neighboring room, ap¬ 
pears in the figured silk and fringe of a 
pretty lampshade. 
In passing from room to room of 
this attractive little home one is pleas¬ 
antly aware of a delightful color transi¬ 
tion which has individuality, unity and 
variety. 
While the larger house permits more 
freedom in the use of color schemes 
than the compact apartment or cottage, 
the principles of color transition must 
still be carefully followed. Here, too, 
the background of uniform color is 
often best, but variety is gained by us¬ 
ing wall coverings of different textures 
-—paint, paper, grasscloth, and panel¬ 
ing. Though different woodwork may 
be used in the various rooms, the 
changes should not be abrupt. 
A Scheme in Gray 
.\nother plan shows an interior scheme 
in which this diversity of texture is 
carried out in a sequence of restful 
grays. The hall paper, a hair-stripe in 
two tones of gray, allows a divergence 
toward warmer and cooler grays in the 
rooms on either side. A lighter gray 
is used for the hall woodwork and ceil¬ 
ing ; and for color the rug and rich 
tapestry cushions of the Jacobean chairs 
show dull greens and blues on black. 
In the library a grasscloth of cool 
lichen gray tones in beautifully with 
the oak paneling stained several shades 
darker, and with the still darker oak 
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