Furnishing and Decorating 
and Southern ; they 
differ simply through 
the fact that the South 
in Colonial days was 
more generally settled 
by a wealthy class of 
English and French 
people than was New 
England and that they 
were, aside from the 
consideration of 
means, less frugal in 
their style of living. 
Hence, in the furniture 
as in the houses, there 
is less that is prim and 
Puritanic, more that is 
French and fanciful. 
The markets on which 
we draw for the rich¬ 
est and most elaborate 
Colonial furniture to¬ 
day are in Charleston, 
Natchez and New Orleans; the ones which furnish us 
with the purest and most exquisite of the simpler 
Chippendale, Sheraton and Heppelwhite pieces are in 
New England. The Colonial house in the South 
spreads over more ground than it does in the North. 
As has been said of this type of house, “it may upon 
occasion be made to spread its wings and porticos 
over much ground, but it never rambles, and it 
should always show a front elevation of imposing 
height; a squat Colonial house is as monstrous as a 
three-storied bungalow.” Also the grace and dignity 
of classic simplicity should invest it, it should be 
cheerful and spacious, its front entrance offering wel¬ 
come to a spacious hall and its porches, porticos and 
balconies removing effectually every touch of stiffness 
from an outline singularly pure and unworried with 
trifling details. Again, it has been said that New 
England offers in her typical architecture an analogy 
to the Puritan maiden of early days who did not wear 
frills upon her frock nor carry her heart upon her 
sleeve. 
In the wall-papers which are fit for use in a 
Colonial house there is 
sufficient variety to 
render it an interesting 
matter to select that 
which best carries out 
the idea of the room 
itself. 
Stripes are always 
appropriate, as are 
large, flowered designs. 
Tiny Dresden sprigs of 
flowers and bunches 
of buds are particu¬ 
larly effective in Colo¬ 
nial bedrooms where 
Sheraton furniture is 
used, while with [the 
four-post bedstead and 
heavy Chippendale 
chairs, sprawling flow¬ 
ers and glazed chintzes 
are fascinating. A Co¬ 
lonial hall may be 
arched and pillared, or 
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