House & Garden 
HOW A DECORATOR WORKS 
She Accepts the Established Facts of Architecture and Adds to Them Furnishings 
That Give the House Distinctive Personality 
ANITA DE CAMPI 
O NE of the most in¬ 
scrutable things in 
the world to the ordinary 
lay person is the method 
of procedure of the in¬ 
terior decorator. 
How does the deco¬ 
rator go about the work ? 
What is the professional 
secret of meeting with 
success? Is a certain 
fashion followed? Is the 
personality of the client 
given first importance ? 
Is it quite a matter of 
how much or how little 
money must be spent ? 
Or a question of locality 
and exposure? 
All of these things are 
factors, but one consid- 
The walls of the Hib¬ 
bard house are didl 
blue in the Italian 
style 
eration takes precedence 
over them. If a client 
wants decorating and 
furnishing done it is a 
foregone conclusion that 
the client has an actual 
place to decorate and 
furnish. The first things 
then to consider are act¬ 
ualities. What manner 
of place has been decided 
upon, purchased perhaps 
finished, or in process of 
construction ? There 
must of necessity be fixed 
features in the selected 
home, and the expedient 
thing to do is to recog¬ 
nize established facts 
and to make all of the 
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These are the ends of 
the Hibbard living 
room. Miss Gheen, 
decorator 
