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Are These Your Problems? 
(Continued from page 90) 
to keep your house full of sunlight and 
rather informal, unless your room is very 
high and you wish to cut down the effect 
of the height, which a valance does very 
successfully, or if you have an ugly win¬ 
dow casement which you prefer not to 
show, in that case a valance is useful. 
E NCLOSED is a rude sketch of our 
old-fashioned, big sprawling coun¬ 
try house. I wish to avail myself 
of the kind co-operation of your corps 
of specialists in livable decoration ot 
the library, hall, living room and din¬ 
ing room. The woodwork of the two 
front rooms is white enamel, of the rest 
of house is of some dark wood, walnut 
or mahogany stained. By means of the 
wide French doors on either side of the 
hall tlie whole front of house may be 
thrown into one, so I want a definite 
unity of coloring but don’t know what 
sort of scheme to select. I imagine I 
should like rose for the dominant color 
because of its warmth and cheeriness in 
that north room especially, but am also 
very fond of yellow or gold but don’t 
know how to use these two dominating 
colors in rooms which open into each 
other so readily. 
Will you please suggest appropriate 
colorings for rugs, wall papers, draperies, 
and upholsterings and also proper ar¬ 
rangement of furniture like grand piano, 
Sheraton sofa, fireplace chair, etc. Sug¬ 
gest appropriate pieces of furniture. 
Thanking you for your suggestions 
how to make these rooms harmonious 
and beautiful yet comfortable for simple, 
hospitable living. 
We have your letter of February 4th 
with its interesting inquiry in regard to 
your color schemes. It seems to us that 
you could perfectly well use one color 
scheme in your library and another for 
your living room in spite of the fact that 
those two rooms can be thrown into one 
by use of the French doors simply be¬ 
cause a hallway intervenes. 
One very successful living room has a 
very delicate green-blue, rather like a 
robin’s egg, wallpaper, gold chintz at the 
windows with a purple and blue design, 
and gold gauze under-curtains. The rugs 
were a plain midnight blue and a pur¬ 
ple, green and gold striped linen was 
used on some of the furniture with the 
same gold colored chintz as at the win¬ 
dows on the rest. 
In the library you might use a Chinese 
figured silk at the windows. This comes 
in a variety of colors. There is especial¬ 
ly a deep orange which would carry out 
your idea of having the room kept cheer¬ 
ful. Neutral gray or faun colored walls, 
using a scenic paper with a coat of 
shellac, would be very attractive, and a 
taupe colored rug. 
As to the arrangement of your furni¬ 
ture in your living room, it is well to 
bear in mind that a comfortable group 
around the fireplace is always very satis¬ 
factory. You will note one possible 
arrangement in the February House & 
Garden, on page 33, with a big table 
placed in back of a davenport making 
the lamps, books, etc., easily accessible. 
You will find still another arrangement 
in the January issue on page 44 with the 
davenport placed at right angles to the 
fireplace and a comfortable chair oppo¬ 
site. Since you have a settle on either 
side of your fireplace, it seems to me that 
the arrangement on page 33 of the Feb¬ 
ruary issue would be best for your prob¬ 
lem. We would suggest placing your 
piano in the space between your two 
French doors. 
I HAVE a perplexing problem in front 
of me in the decorating of my home. 
The house is of an English style, 
stone first, stucco second, with a South¬ 
ern exposure. 
First floor contains dining, living, re¬ 
ception, breakfast. The two first and 
two last separate between by French 
doors, and from themselves by vestibule 
and hall. 
Dining Room, size 15’ x 15’ (approxi¬ 
mately), E. N. and W. exposure. Beamed 
ceiling, Dutch shelves, panelled walls of 
oak dark brown, gray sanded finish walls 
between panels. Casement, windows E. 
and N., bay window W. (diamond case¬ 
ment shape). Parquet floors. Lighting 
fixtures, wrought iron, verdi-gris. 
Kindly advise if oak dining room is 
appropriate, what color rugs, curtains 
and upholstery (will blue do?). 
Living Room, size 19)4' x 14(4': Same 
as dining room except no shelves. Bis 
natural stone fireplace. Exposure S. and 
W. Fireplace west exposure between two 
French doors communicating main 
porch. S. 4 casement windows, book¬ 
cases built in each side, seat between. 
Communicates with hall and dining 
room by French doors. What color cur¬ 
tains, vpho.stery and rugs? Will mul¬ 
berry do? If mulberry used what uphol¬ 
stery? Verdi-gris lights wrought iron. 
Reception Room, 15' x 12'. Southern 
exposure. Panelled walls, cream color 
moulding gray between mouldings, gray 
in panels. Fireplace gas, Adams style. 
Louis XVI side light and center of 
gold antique. What color rugs, curtains? 
Will Adams do? Is Hepplewhite ap¬ 
propriate ? 
Breakfast Room. Exposure E. and S. 
Casement on F. and S. Communicates 
with reception, kitchen. Dark brown 
wood work, parquet floors. What color 
rugs, curtains and what color wall 
tinting will suit with early English (dark 
brown) furniture ? 
Master Bed Rooms, 21*4' x 16J4'- 
Panelled cream color. Wood work, gray 
between mouldings. Fireplace Adams 
style, French side lights and hanging 
center light, antique gold. Advise style 
of furniture, curtains, rugs. 
Sleeping Porch. Size 16' x 16'. Ex¬ 
posure E. N. W. Cream woodwork, 
with gre'en tinted walls. Advise color of 
furniture, rug and draperies if used as 
small sitting room. 
Dining Room —We would suggest your 
using putty color casement cloth curtains 
bound in dull blue, a plain dull blue 
material on the chairs, such as repp or 
linen, and a plain dull blue reversible 
rug wbuld be serviceable. You might 
introduce a little gayety of color in a 
lacquer screen at the serving door. 
Living Room —There is no reason why 
you should not use mulberry as your 
main color in this room. There is a 
gold colored chintz with mulberry and 
blue predominating in it which could be 
used as over-curtains and on some of the 
chairs with plain mulberry material on 
the rest of the furniture, thin gold 
corded silk at the French windows and 
with this a plain sand colored rug. 
Reception Room —There is no reason 
why you should not use either Adams or 
Hepplewhite furniture in this room. We 
would suggest illusive green as your 
predominating color. 
Breakfast Room —A simple Jacobean 
chintz with blue and green predominat¬ 
ing would do very well in this room 
with your early English furniture, and 
we would suggest tinting your walls a 
deep biscuit coloit 
Master’s Bed Room —We would sug¬ 
gest your using simple painted furniture 
in this room. It might be painted a 
blue-green with lines of cream color and 
with this, a gay flowered chintz and 
dimity curtains with a faun colored rug 
would look well. 
Sleeping Porch —Why not use natural 
color Philippine willow or reed furniture 
on this porch with cushions of glazed 
flowered chintz and green and white 
stripe glazed chintz at the windows. 
Simple oval hemp rugs come which 
would look very well with this scheme. 
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