House & Garden 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT, Editor 
INTERIOR DECORATIONS IN APRIL 
A HEALTHY sign of the times is the increas¬ 
ing interest in decoration. This indicates 
two conditions. More people are desirous 
of having better homes, and more people than 
ever before have the means whereby these better 
homes may be made. Latent good taste is being 
crystalized in the real presence and use of good 
furnishings. 
Now good taste does not necessarily mean 
that one has one’s home in strict period style or 
that she clutter her home with all the smart 
novelties the market offers. The purely period 
home would be un-American and unlivable. And 
novelties in style this year would be out of style 
next year. No, good taste demands harmony of 
color and line. It requires livableness. It seeks 
to create interiors that typify the people who 
shall live in them. 
Because of this wide and divergent appeal, no 
set decoration rules can ever be given to cover 
all possible problems. We can only suggest and 
advise. We can show good work by good 
decorators, and tell why it is good. The role of 
the reader is to study these interiors and see how 
her problems can be solved by the methods 
A corner cupboard from the April issue 
showing the favorite Colonial shell 
pattern 
used. Nor do we hope that readers will copy 
the interiors shown in House & Garden. That 
would be depriving your rooms of the individ¬ 
uality that they deserve. Moreover, as they 
stand, the rooms may be too expensive or too 
elaborate, or too simple and inexpensive. The 
idea is the thing—the thought-out work of the 
professional decorator who has spent hours and 
hours in creating those rooms. Take those ideas, 
adapt them to your own rooms. Therein lies 
the valuable service of the magazine. 
The next issue is devoted to interior decora¬ 
tions, to as many phases of it as can be put into 
the editorial space that it must share, at this 
season of the year, with gardening and house 
building. Not all questions are touched. Not 
all questions could be touched in so limited a 
space. The editorial scheme of House & Garden 
is to give the reader, during the course of a 
year’s twelve issues, a fairly comprehensive view 
of the four great subjects that go to the making 
and maintenance of a home—house building and 
architecture, the designing and planting of gar¬ 
dens, decorating and furnishing, the equipping 
and managing of kitchens and laundries. 
Contents for March, 1920 . 
Cover Design by Harry Richardson 
The Shrine in the Garden. 18 
Olmsted Brothers, Landscape Architects 
How TO Grow Grapes. 19 
M. G. Kaines 
A Simple Design in Stucco . 22 
W. Lawrence Bottomley, Architect 
Computing A Household Budget.....' 24 
L. K. C. Olds 
Spring . 24 
Witter Bynner 
The Eastward-Looking Breakfast Room. 25 
Julius Gregory, Architect 
The Jeweled Knick-Knacks of a Brilliant Period. 26 
Gardner Teall 
Commodious Closets. 28 
Agnes Foster Wright 
The Proper Portraits for Rooms. 30 
Peyton Boswell 
The Principles of the Flower Border. 31 
Robert Stell 
Using Ciphers and Monograms in Decoration. 32 
Costen Fitz-Gibbon 
Making the Living Room Livable. 33 
A Garden Near Water. 34 
Marian C. Coffin, Landscape Architect 
Volume XXXVII, No. Three 
A Dozen Good An.nuals. 36 
G. T. Huntington 
A Livable House in Rochester, N. Y. 37 
Clement R. Newkirk, Architect 
A Walled Garden Set in the Woods. 38 
Olmsted Brothers, Landscape Architects 
For a Flower Room. 40 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 41 
Rock Gardening in the Northwest. 44 
T. H. and Drew Sherrard 
My Backyard Garden. 45 
W. P. Franklin 
Spraying Equipment for the W.ar on Insect Pests. 46 
House & Garden’s Gardening Guide. 47 
Fifteen Facts for the Gardener. 50 
R. S. File 
The Electrical Dining Room. 51 
Grace T. Hadley 
The Plumbing in Your Kitchen. 52 
Ethel R. Peyser 
Two More Good Terriers. 54 
Robert S. Lemmon 
A Garden Utility House. 55 
M. G. Kaines 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 56 
Copyright, 1920, by Condo Nast & Co.. Inc. 
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