52 
House & Garden 
In the space at the foot of 
the bed can often be placed 
a chair, couch, or table. In 
the bedroom to the right 
the small table breaks the 
vertical lines of the four- 
poster and affords a place 
for flowers in a vase—the 
last things to look upon 
at night and the first in 
the morning 
A day bed or couch is al¬ 
most an essential in the 
bedroom of a busy house¬ 
wife, who should retire for 
her forty winks in the 
afternoon. This spares the 
bed and gives an added air 
of luxury to the room. In 
the room below the day- 
bed is a fitting adjunct to 
the four-poster 
AT THE 
FOOT OF 
THE BED 
Small, low chairs placed 
in bedrooms have been giv¬ 
en the pleasant name of 
slipper chairs. When they 
are at the foot of the bed, 
as in this Colonial room, 
they are reminiscent of 
childhood, when you were 
taught to fold up your 
clothes at nights and place 
them on a chair 
The air of harmony in the 
bedroom to the left is pro¬ 
duced by using the same 
pattern chintz at the win¬ 
dows, for bedspreads and 
on the couch at the foot. 
The seeing housewife will 
probably criticize this ar¬ 
rangement because the 
couch has to be moved 
when the beds are made 
