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Decorating the Small House 
(Continued from page 66) 
that they must have an enormous couch 
in their living room. Notice how sel¬ 
dom more than two people sit on a 
couch! You can’t seat four grown-up 
people on a couch for the evening. Be¬ 
sides, a cumbersome couch so often 
spoils a well-proportioned room of small 
dimensions. Instead, select a comfort¬ 
able down couch—4' 6" is ample for two 
people—and then one_ large wing or 
barrel chair and one low, semi-uphol¬ 
stered chair. The wing chair gives what 
is so often needed in a room—a high 
line—and is particularly pleasing set 
near a fireplace. Chairs, sofas and tables 
all have the same general height, so, for 
this reason, a break is desirable by a 
high-back chair or, in a more formal 
room, a low seat. A desk with a secre¬ 
tary top helps break the wall line, as 
well as caring for some particularly well 
bound books or an interesting little col¬ 
lection of some sort. To eke out the six 
seats there are always good model chairs 
in walnut or well woven wicker chairs 
upholstered throughout. 
Where an apartment is small a day 
bed answers the purpose of a couch and 
a spare bed. They come in such splen¬ 
did designs and, painted, decorated and 
antiqued, they are a real addition in 
every way. In the country a small, 
semi-upholstered chaise longue gives one 
a chance to rest and read on hot after¬ 
noons. 
Do your couch in a rose and morn¬ 
ing glory blue chintz, your wing chair 
to match, your smaller chair in plain 
rose, your wicker in plain green linen 
piped in rose and use two blue porce¬ 
lain lamps with deep rose chiffon shades 
edged with blue and yellow taffeta. Use 
the same colors in the taffeta cushions 
on the couch. Paint the desk a very 
deep green, decorate it in a design from 
some Italian book cover or fresco, and 
antique it heavily. Put two little black 
and crystal ornaments at each end of 
the mantel and a shiny rose bowl in the 
center. Keep the carpet taupe and the 
walls a warm ivory, rubbing yellow 
ochre into the molding. Save up and 
buy a fresh, sparkling oil for the over¬ 
mantel, with plenty of sunshine and 
green shadows in it. 
Why a Dining Room? 
If possible, do without a dining room. 
In the country one can always use the 
porch and in the city use one end of 
the enlarged living room or, if the apart¬ 
ment and landlord permit, build out 
over the back yard a dining porch. 
Apartment walls can be cut out, win¬ 
dows set in and windows enlarged. This 
room need not be informal. I have seen 
a beautiful dining extension with a white 
marble floor, white paneled woodwork, 
what little there was of it, a long, nar¬ 
row, beautifully carved table and high- 
back chairs. The only note of color 
was found in the crimson satin chair 
seats. This was sort of an extension of 
the drawing room, but one did not feel 
shut up in a room from which no one 
derived pleasure except at meal times. 
In a less formal household the extension 
should serve as a porch when not used 
for meals. One habit should be main¬ 
tained, however—to go back into the 
living room while the table is being 
cleared, as it is unpleasant to sit in the 
same place during and after a meal with 
no break. Cigars are a good excuse. 
The library should be very carefully 
planned. A long table desk, a wall of 
book cases, the inevitable fireplace and 
two comfortable chairs—one for the 
reader and one for the listener. The 
size of the room and the number of the 
chairs will depend upon the size of the 
family—we will forego the pocket-book. 
But the library should be the man’s 
refuge. Children should be persona non 
grata, as well as the family trials and 
tribulations. 
The bedrooms in a small house are 
so easily furnished. They require only 
a little imagination, a terribly strict hold 
on one’s purchasing propensities and the 
faculty for putting ourselves in the other 
person’s place. Your husband doesn’t 
want rosebuds on his bed. Get a plain 
pair of beds in mahogany or walnut. 
Give yourself the rosebud touch with 
your taffeta dressing table in lovely 
translucent couleur de rose, lined with 
amber. Give him a walnut chifforobe— 
a boon to all men—and yourself a bu¬ 
reau painted amber with rose and green 
decorations. Put amber curtains at the 
window—through them comes such a 
lovely light!—and introduce the rose 
into the valance and the tie-backs. Thus 
you have respected the sex of your hus¬ 
band and treated yourself equally well. 
In the boys’ room, give them sturdy 
stained furniture. Paint chips too easily 
for them. Find a paper that is long 
enduring as to spots, and use removable 
floor coverings. At the windows and on 
the occasional pieces of wicker try an 
entertaining cretonne—say, blue with 
gay Chinese ships, or one of the quaint 
little Persian designs. 
The baby’s room should have fresh, 
dotted muslin and bouquet paper, yel¬ 
low painted furniture and no small rugs 
to slip on. Paint the roller shades with 
soft, clear colors, or use a gay glazed 
chintz. 
For Guests and Maid 
In the guest room place a pair of 
beds. Find some with lowish heads and 
still lower open footboards. The room 
will be small, and high closed foot¬ 
boards give a cramped feeling. Between 
the beds place a night stand with a shelf 
for books just below the top shelf. On 
a low shelf near the floor one can 
neither reach them conveniently nor 
read their titles. One dresser, a dressing 
table, a straight chair and one comfort¬ 
able chair should complete the furnish¬ 
ings. If the walls are a soft, luminous 
yellow, paint the beds yellow. Use a 
deep mauve carpet and have the taffeta 
spreads a lighter mauve. Paint the 
dresser yellow and mauve and drape the 
semi-circular dressing table in yellow 
glazed chintz with box-plaited ruching. 
Use a semi-circular mirror with a wider 
box plaiting. At the windows hang 
yellow tarleton curtains with ruffled 
edges finished with mauve rickrack. 
Pay a great deal of attention to the 
maid’s room. Paint her iron bed some 
gay color and give her curtains and 
bed spreads of apple blossom cretonne, 
and a pink rug and a rocking chair 
painted to match. If she doesn’t like it, 
get her something else and use the apple 
blossom for slip covers. 
The small house must be furnished a 
dozen times in one’s mind before a cent 
is spent. Always remember how little 
that house actually is. I find that 
people who own a small house usually 
carry the wrong scale in their minds. 
It looks so big to them! Yet this illu¬ 
sion of size can be kept up, if the scale 
of furnishing, the light receding colors 
and open spaces are all maintained. 
A CORRECTION—On page 29 of the June House & Garden, the name of 
Vitale, Brinkerhoff & Geiffert was erroneously used as the landscape architects 
of the Thomas Hunt garden. This firm had no connection with the work illus¬ 
trated. Lord & Hewlett were the architects. 
