Furnishing and Decorating 
hundred dollars. The bungalow which is illus¬ 
trated in this article stands also in Pasadena and 
is said to have cost fifteen thousand dollars. As 
it is finished inside with costly woods, and as it 
is as spacious within as many an imposing man¬ 
sion which has cost fifty thousand dollars, this 
may well be believed; on the other hand, that first 
little bungalow with all its modesty and lack of 
pretension set the fashion which has been so widely 
followed. True, its foundations were but redwood 
mudsills laid on the surface of the ground, its walls 
were of perpendicular boards, and its roof laid with 
“ shakes.” There was no plaster in the building, 
the paper being hung on muslin which was care¬ 
fully stretched and tacked on the walls and ceilings. 
There were no open fireplaces, but a hot-air furnace 
in the cellar kept the entire house conffortable. 
Its windows and doors were quaint and noth¬ 
ing was lacking in artistic beauty or in one sin¬ 
gle comfort and convenience of living. Thus it 
will be seen that this style of architecture covers 
easily a wider field than any other. In the matter 
of furnishing, a bungalow permits more license than 
any other kind of house—it calls for nothing arbi¬ 
trarily. 
You may put everything into it in the way of 
rich and luxurious furnishings or you may leave 
nearly everything out, and if you go to either of these 
extremes with taste and discrimination your house 
remains unspoiled and still suggestive of all things 
artistic. 
It is my belief that this adaptiveness accounts 
largely for its popularity. A bungalow which holds 
Oriental rugs, chairs richly covered with glowing 
brocades, whose walls are hung with priceless 
Chinese and Japanese embroideries, and which is 
filled with teak-wood, ebony or mahogany furniture 
may be made to appear appropriately furnished, and 
one which has grass mats on the floor, rustic furni¬ 
ture, Navajo blankets in its doorways and cheese¬ 
cloth at the windows may be made delightfully 
attractive. 
It would be difficult to devise a scheme for put¬ 
ting fifteen thousand dollars to better use than in 
the building of the house shown in the illustration 
and it is a beautiful exposition of a style of architec¬ 
ture and finishing which though it has come to us hut 
recently has already fitted itself into our necessities 
and tastes. It appeals to a wide circle and several 
classes because when it is furnished luxuriously 
and used conventionally there is yet in its atmosphere 
a delightful flavor of Bohemianism and the liberty 
and originality that camp life and studio life 
permits, and yet when it is furnished with extreme 
simplicity it may (if sufficiently artistic in its 
treatment) outrank the most expensive conventional 
house. 
The house which is built of “shakes,” the elon¬ 
gated shingles of the West, is another outgrowth of 
the artistic and practical needs of California life. 
The effect of these long, overlapping shingles on the 
roof and the side walls of a house is not unlike the 
“thatch” of an English cottage or the palm houses 
of tropical countries. 
It is picturesque in the extreme, and this style 
of cottage is also setting the fashion. For summer 
homes at the seashore or in the mountains these two 
styles are being followed and adopted throughout the 
United States. 
As the illustrations of these two latter types of 
houses show, plain walls are preferred to those 
hung with figured papers—and when these walls 
have a sand-finish and are calcimined in dull tones 
of strong colors they are most effective. Pale, 
elusive tints are always to be avoided in the bunga¬ 
low or rustic cottage, and wainscoting and heavily 
beamed ceilings are appropriate. The bedchambers 
are sometimes papered with flowered effects but the 
woodwork should always remain unpainted and looks 
best when stained. 
THE EDDY BUNGALOW AT PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, FROM THE NORTHEAST 
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