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House & Garden 
Are You Kind to Your House? 
House fsf Garden is full of little glimpses into charming 
homes—like this of the transformed conservatory. And 
there isn’t a picture of them all that doesn’t contain sug¬ 
gestions for your own home—suggestions in furniture, fabric, 
colour, arrangement—suggestions in glass, linen, or china 
—suggestions for the garden, its flowers and furnishings 
This gay little breakfast room used to be a bit of 
rather forlorn conservatory until somebody real¬ 
ized the possibilities of a terra cotta tiled floor with 
insets of dull blue—provided one chose just pre¬ 
cisely the right furniture. 
Up against the neutral plastered wall the valance 
isn’t chary of its blues and terra cottas, repeated in 
the block fringe of the crisp little cream under¬ 
curtains ; and the tied-on pads with fluffy tasselled 
cords add just the colour needed closer to the floor. 
You’ve probably guessed that the chairs and the 
table are black with a tiny line of blue, and the 
cosmos flowers in their crystal holder are the dim 
pink of a winter sunset. 
Perhaps you think your house hasn’t any unused 
possibilities. But you can’t be sure unless you 
consult the 
Furniture Number 
JANUARY 
House & Garden 
It’s full of fascinating glimpses of what other peo¬ 
ple have made of their homes. Sometimes it’s all 
in the colour—there’s an article on that. Maybe 
it’s an odd tie-back for the curtains, or a quaint 
Lancashire chair, a bit of painted furniture. 
All these are discussed and pictured in the January 
number with everything else you’ll want to read 
about, from bedrooms and furniture mounts to the 
treatment of kitchen floors and walls. 
Last of all—but first in the mind of the collector, 
—there is an article on the interesting work in 
straw marqueterie done by old-time prisoners of 
forgotten wars. 
It isn’t money that makes the house beautiful — 
it’s knowing how. Read the January number 
of House & Garden and you’ll see why 
If you have a house, or are going to have a house, be sure to reserve 
a copy of this Furniture Number at your usual news-stand now 
35 Cents a Copy 
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