14 
House & Garden 
At each side of the room with the 
bow end is ivy on a black and gold 
stand. Above hangs a mirror in a 
gold and black frame 
made the long casement windows the center 
of interest in the room. 
A Windsor settee, carefully made with 
modelled turnings and hand-split spindles and 
simple Windsor chairs were often associated 
with this not too pretentious, but wholly de¬ 
lightful period. These are painted a jolly tulip 
yellow, with lines of green, and are to be the 
only pieces of painted furniture with the excep¬ 
tion of a small drop-leaf desk, which is painted 
spring-like green, with small flower decora¬ 
tions in the yellow. On the desk, we have a 
cream colored Belleek lamp base with an oval 
painted shade in delicate yellow, with a wreath 
of flowers. There is a gate leg, oak table, 
finished with a dull wax finish, useful for 
magazines and books, and some of the neces¬ 
sary adjuncts of the living room. A small 
three-legged table, in the same finish is useful 
for serving afternoon tea, and there is a com¬ 
fortable armchair, upholstered in a glazed 
chintz, this chintz is used on the cushion of 
the settee, and for the curtains at the windows 
as well. It has a gray mauve background and 
an all-over old-fashioned flower design of a 
deeper mauve, blue, yellow and green. Its 
general effect is very quaint and because it is 
glazed, it will shed the dust, better than the 
average chintz. For the tiled floor, we have 
chosen an oval, hand woven Colonial rug, made 
with the color combinations of the chintz. 
There are to be book shelves at either side of 
the doorway, which is opposite the casement 
window, these to be built-in. The treatment 
of the casement windows is a problem which 
frequently confronts the reader, and this very 
simple plan of the narrow valance, and the 
curtains made to draw the full width of the 
window so that no shades are necessary, it 
seems to us a very feasible and attractive one. 
And we have seen it worked out very satis¬ 
factorily. 
The list for this room follows: 
Making chintz valance and curtains for case¬ 
ment window, including chintz. $40.00 
Windsor settee painted yellow with lines of 
green . 100.00 
Cushion for settee, including 3 yards of chintz 
for one side. 17.25 
2 Windsor chairs, painted yellow, at $20. 40.00 
Gate leg table, dull finish oak. 95.00 
Painted desk . 55.00 
3-leg table, dull oak. 25.00 
1 armchair, covered in glazed chintz. 45.00 
1 handwoven rug (oval) 3 by 6. 27.00 
1 lamp and shade. 20.00 
$464.25 
These suggestions will, of course, cover only 
a few of the possible cases, and may in each 
instance be elaborated upon considerably. In 
fact, it was only because we kept such a care¬ 
ful eye on the total that we avoided that temp¬ 
tation. We have selected the quality and 
character of furniture, which will stand the 
test of long usage and careful scrutiny, rather 
than makeshift furniture, of which you have 
to dispose in time. In glancing over the list of 
prices, you might be under the impression that 
a less expensive article might be substituted, 
but in the case of the upholstered pieces as well 
as the others, we have had quality rather than 
quantity in mind. 
As to the color scheme, we have used com¬ 
binations, which are a bit unusual, but not 
bizarre, and in which the full value of the 
room as a whole is considered. In the arrange¬ 
ment of the furniture, we have considered the 
necessity of a well-balanced, reposeful room. 
In order to achieve this result, we have 
planned to use articles frequently in pairs, as 
for example, the ivy stands with mirrors above, 
the pair of chairs with the refectory table, the 
pair of tall branched candlesticks. Each wall 
The cost of these groupings is rea¬ 
sonable. The stands cost $24 each, 
and the mirrors, $15. The use of ivy 
is a growing vogue 
treatment was carefully thought out with this 
in mind and such care is well rewarded by the 
sense of comfort and quiet thus gained. Not 
only was each wall treatment considered, but 
the entire room as well. 
In other words, when you start to try to make 
your room livable, the thing to do is to actually 
live in it. See just how a carefully thought- 
out grouping will justify itself at once, with 
what ease you sink into an armchair, which is 
so near a table and lamp that you may read 
in comfort, how a well stocked writing table 
with a light at just the right angle invites you 
to pen a friendly note. 
All of which may be nothing startlingly 
new, but we submit in extenuation that there 
are many uninspired homes which might be a 
joy to visit were this theory followed. If you 
don’t believe us, look about you and see. 
Note. All the prices quoted in this article will 
hold good for prospective purchasers, up to within 
thirty days after the publication of the magazine. 
After that time there may be some slight increase on 
individual articles, as the conditions in the factories 
due to the war, are so uncertain. 
At the end of the first living room is a group consisting of a refectory table and. Spanish chairs. They are in walnut 
with a wax finish, and are of good design. The table costs $75 and the chairs $28.75 each 
