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House & Garden 
Togan Ready Made 
Cottages Meet 
Every Requirement 
TOGAN STILES CO., 
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 
B y the side of river, lake or mountain stream there is a 
spot that will be graced by a Togan Ready Made Cottage. 
Built in perfect sections, delivered ready for immediate 
erection, these charming Togan Cottages solve every question of 
Cottage building at a minimum outlay. In addition to the 
Cottage catalogue we also have catalogues for 
TOWN HOUSES 
BUNGALOWS 
GARAGES 
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Living Comfortably Out of Doors 
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look that settees with upright arms seem 
to lack. A set could be done, using 
this settee as the main piece, in green 
with yellow linen covers, edged with 
purple worsted fringe. Two round pur¬ 
ple pillows should be added to give it 
snap. There is an oil-boiled yellow 
cotton material similar to turkey red 
which could be used admirably, as it is 
practically sun-fast. 
Wicker should be combined with 
wooden painted furniture. Wicker 
tables are not practical unless they have 
glass tops. For that reason have the 
long table for magazines, lamps, flowers, 
etc., a painted wooden piece, and the 
smaller stands or tables also wood. 
Orange chairs and tables, with a cre¬ 
tonne of very light, fresh, grass green 
and a bronze colored floor, make a crisp 
porch color combination. For a darker 
note use wrought iron. 
Wrought Iron Furniture 
There is so often required for the 
terrace some kind of furniture that is 
more formal as well as more durable 
than wicker. Wrought iron seems su¬ 
per-excellent for this use. For years we 
have been used to wrought iron seats 
of cemetery association. In the past 
few years we have the adaptation of 
cafe painted iron furniture, some with 
spring seats of wide strips. None of 
these have proved to add much to the 
joy of the eye or the comfort of one’s 
back. 
A wide, deep armchair can be made 
of wrought iron which has just enough 
structural ornament to be good-looking. 
By having the seat and back made with 
white caning a thoroughly comfortable 
chair is produced. It is kept rust-proof 
by the finish and needs only the atten¬ 
tion of a little rubbing with a kerosene 
rag after a prolonged storm. Settees and 
small chairs can be made to match, also 
tables for cards and tea and small, low 
smoking stands. If one does not want 
the expense of marble or black glass 
tops, a marbleized top gives good ser¬ 
vice if the wood is well seasoned and 
the top braced. 
Upholstery Fabrics 
Plain colored linen has many good 
qualities for cushion covers for all sorts 
of porch furniture. Made as slip cov¬ 
ers, it can be laundered and, in these 
days of soap dyes, can be kept always 
in fresh color. Around the edge can 
be used a httle fringe of a darker tone. 
This is not changed by the soap dye. 
The 50" upholstery fabrics, which cut 
to such good advantage for pillows, 
come in regular upholstery shades of 
soft colors. Intermingle cushions of 
two different tones; for example, a deep 
pink that has a tone of orange in it and 
a cool greenish brown, or a nattier blue 
and orchid color, or a sea green and 
Vermillion. The last may have to be 
dyed, but it would be worth the trouble. 
The expense is negligible. 
Monk’s cloth can be dyed and corded 
with a deep pile cotton velvet. It is a 
serviceable upholstery and pillows can 
well be made of it. Dye the monk’s 
cloth orange and cord with blue-green 
velvet, or dye it peacock blue and cord 
with tobacco brown. The velvet edge 
should be of a sufficiently dark color 
not to show the dirt. 
I lay stress upon plain goods, because 
this year figured linens are very ex¬ 
pensive. If one wants pattern and fig¬ 
ure use either the figured roller shades 
of chintz or decorated holland, or else 
paint the furniture with medallions of 
brilliant color and striking design. 
In a room where the windows need 
heightening, an admirable way to get 
pattern and color is to add a painted 
wooden valance board, preferably with a ; 
semi-circular top. There we can splash 
all the color and design we want and re- ■ 
peat the design of the linen or cretonne ! 
used for upholstery, or if a plain tone 
upholstery is used on the furniture and I 
another one for the curtains, we can \ 
combine these two with their grada- i 
tions in the valance board. The semi- i 
circular top not only tends to make the I 
window higher, but it gives a chance i 
to make an interesting design. For in- | 
stance, a picture of two cockatoos on I 
either side of a brilliant dish of fruit 
and an unheard-of, ungrowable tree, I 
shedding pussy-willows. Two of these : 
over the breakfast porch windows ' 
would be fascinating. Any local car¬ 
penter can make these boards with a 
tiny molding around the outside. They 
do not require curtains; but if curtains 
are used they are hung from underneath 
the valance board and should be of a 
plain tone. 
Another arrangement would be the 
following: simple little, repeat, two-tone : 
patterns could be used of glazed chintz 
for the hangings and the upholstery 
could be of the same background chintz, ; 
with large floral motifs. This same 
splashy design could be done on the i 
valance board. The board should come i 
the full width of the window or group 
of windows, and the semi-circular part 
should come only at the center. If one 
attempted to have the whole top semi¬ 
circular it would require too high a ■ 
ceding. 
The Porch Walls 
Such a room should have soft plas¬ 
tered or sanded walls. When the walls 
of a porch room are in bad shape, at¬ 
tach wall board, paint it thickly and 
sand it while still wet. Then it can be 
washed over with a kalsomine to even 
the tone up, or tone it to one’s taste. 
Niches, made of perforated sheet tin 
and plastered and sanded, make a nice 
break in the wall. A more formal treat¬ 
ment is to place urns in the niches. 
These urns can be antiqued with dull 
gold rubbed over black painted tin 
or wrought iron flowers with a touch 
of antique gold rubbed in the buds 
and foliage. 
A room can be coved by using the 
perforated tin and plaster, as well as 
by lattice. This adds a great deal of 
interest and elegance to an otherwise 
commonplace room. 
Lamps and Lighting 
The porch generally needs a center 
light. Wrought iron is the most suit¬ 
able, as the fixtures come in the 
simplest designs and also in the most 
elaborate. Wicker shallow baskets lined 
with habitui silk are a suitable sub¬ 
stitute. Fancy silk shades should never 
be used even though the porch is en¬ 
closed. A good sprinkling of standing, 
wrought iron lamps, a pair of either 
pottery or Chinese vase lamps on the 
large table are sufficient and give a light 
that is well distributed. 
There should always be a number of 
small tables and stools in a porch or 
on a terrace. To get comfortably seated, 
and then have to jump up for a book 
or a match or because the ground is too 
damp, or the floor too drafty for one’s 
feet and no stool to be found—that is 
a real abomination! Service and cheeri¬ 
ness should be the criterion for porch 
furnishings. 
