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House & Garden 
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Schemes 
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Are These Your Problems? 
E ACH week the House & Garden 
decorators answer scores of ques¬ 
tions on color schemes, furniture 
and furniture arrangement, draperies, 
lighting fixtures and the hundred and 
one problems that come up in the deco¬ 
rating and furnishing of the home. A 
few of the questions and answers are 
printed below. Perhaps your question 
is among them. If not, why not avail 
yourself of this advice? Address, The 
Information Service, House & Garden, 
19 West 44th Street, New York City. 
M AY I ask you to give me some 
ideas for a living and dressing 
room which I want to have pa¬ 
pered and painted? It is a large room 
25' x 25' and about 13' in height. It 
faces the north with a triple window 
with the centre window about lA yards 
wide and each side window about K 
yard wide. There is a large single win¬ 
dow facing the west, so the room is 
quite light. 
There is a wooden mantelpiece painted 
white, but no fireplace, nor can a fire¬ 
place be cut. Should the mantelpiece 
be removed, as I have that privilege? 
There is mostly mahogany furniture 
in the room—bureau, one of the new 
chiffoniers which looks rather like a 
cabinet, table, Martha Washington sew¬ 
ing table, antique mahogany chair, large 
leather easy chair, sofa upholstered with 
tapestry in which there is old blue, nest 
of tables in Sheraton style and Victrola. 
Two of the corners, those toward the 
east, are cut by corner closets, but what 
I need is some kind of a cabinet for 
china and glass, as I have quite a sup¬ 
ply of it. 
There are plain white hemstitched 
voile curtains at the windows, but I 
want to put overcurtains of some kind. 
How should they be arranged for the 
triple window ? 
The room opens into a small bedroom. 
There is a velour curtain—old blue—at 
the door. 
I also want a new rug. 
We would suggest an ecru colored 
paper with a self-toned stripe, and the 
woodwork to be painted a deep ivory. 
We are enclosing a cut of a suitable 
cretonne for your other curtains and 
would suggest that you treat your triple 
window like the one on the top of page 
48 of the December House & Garden. 
In this case, of course, the windows 
are not the same proportions as yours, 
but the photograph would give you the 
idea we have in mind better than any 
description. As you see, there is a 
short valance at the top which binds 
the whole window treatment together, 
and of course, these curtains can be 
made to draw. 
In regard to your wooden njantelpiece, 
we would suggest that since it is im¬ 
possible to have a fireplace cut, and 
since you have the privilege of remov¬ 
ing the mantelpiece, that you do so. 
We can imagine nothing more forlorn 
than a mantelpiece without a fireplace. 
This will give you extra space for your 
furniture as well. We would suggest a 
plain sand colored carpet rug as very 
practical and good-looking. 
In regard to a cabinet for your china 
and glass, we would suggest that you 
plan to have one with wooden rather 
than glass doors and you might get a 
simple mahogany one at any of the 
good furniture shops. 
I AM about to curtain an all-year- 
round country or village home (it 
faces a lake) with casement cloth, 
which curtains I want to make myself, 
and I have several doubts concerning 
same. Will you kindly inform me, 
touching on: 
A. Is the simple hanging like page 10 
(House & Garden, February, 1918) 
better than the curtain divided in two, 
horizontally as on page 40 (House & 
Garden, March, 1917)? 
B. Cloth is best suited to small brass 
rods, is it not? And how much head¬ 
ing? 
C. Is casement cloth just as proper 
in sash windows as in casement win¬ 
dows? How are French doors treated 
leading out-of-doors? 
D. Does one retain the regulation 
shade when using casement cloth ? 
E. Is the Travis fixture with silk 
cords always used ? They seem unneces¬ 
sary in places where one can reach to 
adjust hanging. 
F. Can you submit a sample of tape 
or binding that can finish curtains plain 
instead of a hem? 
G. Later—in making our draperies 
is the valance better, or straight draper¬ 
ies like those on page 29 (House & 
Garden, February, 1918) in a house 
where one wishes all the sunlight to come 
in and an atmosphere of informality? 
A. We consider the simple hanging 
like that on page 10 of House & Garden 
for February, 1918, more suitable for the 
curtains which you describe, than the 
curtain on page 40, of House & Garden 
for March, 1917, and they surely will be 
easier to make. 
B. Make your casement cloth curtains 
with about an inch and a half to two 
inch heading and sew it to small brass 
rods so placed that the brass pole will 
not show when the curtains are drawn. 
C. Casement cloth is just as correct 
for sash windows as for casement win¬ 
dows. The most practical way of treat¬ 
ing French doors which lead out-of- 
doors, if you are planning to use case¬ 
ment cloth, is to shir them on brass rods 
at the top and bottom of the door. If 
they were hung just on one rod at the 
top, they would flap about in the breeze 
a good deal and would be rather incon¬ 
venient. 
D. It is not necessary to retain the 
regulation shade when using casement 
cloth unless you so desire. In fact, to 
our mind, the chief advantage of case¬ 
ment cloth is that you don’t have to use 
a shade. 
E. It is not essential to use silk draw 
cords where you can reach to adjust the 
curtains, although it is more convenient 
of course, and usually keeps the curtains 
in better condition. 
F. We are submitting a sample which 
could be used as a binding to finish 
the curtains instead of a hem. 
G. We would suggest your using drap¬ 
eries without a valance since you vvish 
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