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House & Garden 
O NE of the most effective of all wall 
coverings is the well - designed 
Two-tone Paper, the subdued figure 
producing a treatment that is decorative 
yet unobtrusive, thus providing a perfect 
background for paintings, tapestries and 
furniture. 
The beautiful Two-tone Effect 
which forms the background of this 
announcement (No. 5865) is one of 
many such attractive designs with which 
prominent Decorators have had much 
success. 
The STRAHAN line of Wall 
Decorations also includes interesting 
Reproductions of historically famous 
papers, Foliage and Fabric Effects, and a 
profusion of modern designs. 
Capetown Dutch Architecture in New England 
(Continued from page 34) 
In the library the architecture is painted floors, and the walls of creamy 
Colonial. It is an exact copy of a room white plaster carried throughout in 
in an old house in Portsmouth, N. H. hall and bedrooms. 
The woodwork is gumwood, which has Light and air are in abundance in 
been stained so that it resembles, as these rooms, and each has a remarkable 
nearly as it can be made to, the old pine outlook over the cedars with which the 
that was used in the original house house is surrounded, 
erected in the early 18th Century. The The sewing room, a bit of a place, 
floor is of wood painted in gray and is a model of completeness and modern 
black squares to correspond with the conveniences. There is a hard wood 
hall. A fine collection of old ship floor painted the gray of the other 
models adds to the decorative scheme, rooms, closets reaching from floor to 
The chairs are upholstered in dark blue, ceiling, little curtains of white muslin 
Samplers are used instead of the old- and wall paper of tiny figured white 
fashioned crocheted tidies that one still design. 
finds in many of the original New Eng- The bright colors of the old chintz 
land homes. The curtains follow the curtains in the bedrooms afford a pleas- 
same coloring as the chairs, and are ing contrast with the cream white 
made of filmy dark blue net with a walls. There is a fireplace in each room, 
narrow dark blue fringe. not a 20th Century fireplace but an 
A remarkable view of the grounds antique. For when the old Salem mer- 
and the surrounding country is ob- chants deserted their homes on Derby 
tained from the drawing room. In this Street to move away from the sea with 
room one is impressed with the dis- the cessation of shipping from that port, 
tinction of the red and white color the large square Colonial houses were 
scheme. The furniture is of old red left tenantless. Some of these are only 
lacquer, some of it of the Queen Anne a memory, but they renew their life in 
period, and the curtains are of old this country house, for the mantels, 
chintz of the same red as the furniture, wainscoting and cornices which grace 
with suggestions of yellow in the de- these bedrooms were taken from those 
sign. Dutch under-curtains of white old residences. 
net lighten the effect. The yellow bedroom with its gray 
From the drawing room one can pass floor and braided rug in blue and gray 
to the terrace which is the distinctly has white woodwork and cream white 
Dutch side of the house, and is copied walls. The furniture is . mainly Co¬ 
in all its details from pictures of the lonial antiques. The yellow color 
old Capetown mansion which inspired scheme is worked out in the overdrapes 
the architectural idea of this house. The of chintz and further carried out in 
furniture here is painted brilliant yel- such little details and accessories as 
low, excepting the dining table which is yellow glass lamps and candlesticks, 
black. This is an outdoor living and One spare room is blue in scheme— 
dining room. old blue chintz curtains and accessories. 
The wall hangings in the dining and has quaint hook rugs on the gray 
room are worth a study in themselves, floor. Most of the furniture is old curly 
They were designed by the architect and maple. 
represent scenes in old Dutch towns. Another spare room is simply treated 
The furniture is Jacobean. On the with pink as the scheme: antique ma- 
sideboards, instead of the usual silver, hogany furniture and a wonderful old 
are many pieces of old colored yellow Sheraton fourposter with dimity canopy 
and emerald green glass. White mus- and hangings. 
lin curtains shade the windows. The There is a sleeping porch, as there 
teakwood floor is covered with a tan should be in a house of this nature. The 
velour rug, matching that in the ad- bed is covered with an old Spanish 
joining drawing room. chintz quilt in blue with bright flowers. 
Among the interesting features of the To add a lively touch to this outdoor 
second story are the uniform dark gray room, the furniture is blue. 
mfa. 
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Manufacturers oP < Distincti\)e' r WalI ‘Decorations 
CHELSEA, MASS. 
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CHICAGO; 59 East Adams Street 
One of the bedrooms has a yellow scheme worked oat in 
the over draperies and yellow glass lamps and candle¬ 
sticks. Lee Porter, of James I. Wingate & Son, decorator 
