18 
House & Garden 
THE FLOOR OF INLAID WOOD 
We have grown so accustomed to thinking the 
floors of our living rooms must depend upon 
rugs for warmth and pattern in their color 
effects that we often overlook the possibilities 
of wood. Yet where the inlays are wisely 
chosen for tone, design and grain, a floor can 
be achieved which fulfills every decorative de¬ 
mand. An arrangement of dark and light in¬ 
lays, with those subtle lines and shadings which 
the grain of many woods presents, offers the 
architect wide latitude of choice. Such a floor 
is in this room, the trim and ceiling of which 
are of still darker wood. The walls are of deco¬ 
rative tiles, the fireplace fittings black iron, and 
the surrounds raked and carved limestone. 
Growing ivy in window lends a light touch 
