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The finished effect of this small dining room with its ivory 
walls, printed silk curtains, its gay peasant pottery and its walnut 
brown furniture is the result of careful and slow selection 
Furnishing in Relays 
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left to be done. The room was quite 
finished! I tried to fathom the cause 
of this subtle charm that is so 
seldom apparent in such a youth¬ 
ful house. For often, even after sev¬ 
eral years, rooms have a way of 
looking as if they had been furnished 
all of a sudden. The furniture is too 
fat, the room too full, the scheme too 
conventional, and lacking in imagina¬ 
tion, as though all the furnishings had 
been assembled by a stranger. Even 
the ornaments seem to lack the per¬ 
sonal element in their selection, re¬ 
sembling too clearly the heterogeneous 
collection of wedding presents. But 
there was nothing of that effect in 
this room. 
“I suppose,” said my friend, “it’s 
because I started out with two really 
handsome chairs that raised the tone of 
some things I painted myself, plus the 
magic of my books and my hearth, that 
my room has had a chance to grow 
up the way it should go!” 
Then followed the tale of this house. 
After buying the home that had cost 
a great deal more than had been 
planned for, there had been left a 
fantastically small sum with which to 
accomplish suitable furnishing. The 
problem of furniture resolved itself in¬ 
to a choice between cheap suites in 
living, dining and bedrooms, the owner 
hoping either to replace these with 
more suitable furniture later on, or to 
be frankly courageous in the matter of 
empty space and have overstuffed fur¬ 
niture luxurious enough to make up for 
the lack of other things generally sup¬ 
posed to be necessary, such as big rugs, 
sofas, many tables, lights, handsome 
desks, daybeds and the like. 
Courage had been the watch word, 
for the walls of the living room were 
so delightfully canvas-hung and pan¬ 
eled, tbeir color such a luscious gray, 
it seemed impossible to consider inex¬ 
pensive, fat tapestry pieces, and the 
highly varnished luster of the ordinary 
funeral-pyre of a library table. So, 
instead, nearly the whole sum set aside 
for the first furnishing of the living 
room was used for the purchase of 
two chairs, upholstered in velvety hand¬ 
printed linen in gold and blue and deep 
mauve on a ground of gray. It took 
courage, that! The spending of two 
hundred and seventy-five dollars on 
two chairs, with perhaps four people 
coming to call next day! 
But the at-home cards gave two 
months’ grace, more than enough to 
paint the floor the rich turquoise blue 
of glazed pottery, to find two Empire 
chairs of wood and rush at the second¬ 
hand mart, and to paint them in black 
and decorate them in gold. In addi¬ 
tion a spindle-backed porch settee was 
found, old and shabby to be sure, but 
more than restored to beauty by the 
magic of the same pots of black and 
gold paint. Two old porcelain jars in 
black, gold and gray were wired for 
electricity, and shades were fashioned 
of turquoise blue fringed in black and 
lined with old yellow. These lamps 
were stationed on little spindle-legged 
candlestands, afterward to be replaced 
by the old-red lacquer Queene Anne 
tables shown in the picture. Small 
wool rugs were dyed black for the 
floor. 
Four years ago, these lacquer tables 
did not exist, nor the sofa I see there 
now. There was no satinwood desk, 
no large rug, no mirrors, no footstools. 
The handsome curtains, the Chinese 
Chippendale table in dusky mahogany, 
the William and Mary wing chair 
drawn up to the hearth were later addi¬ 
tions. But there were the glorious and 
colorful books, all blue and vivid rose 
red, old yellow, tawny brown, gray and 
gold. These books and the gray, gold 
and turquoise of the linen that uphol¬ 
stered the chairs preordained the room’s - 
color scheme, and nothing could have 
been more joyous to work out, judg¬ 
ing from my friend’s sparkling face as 
she told about each thing she had done. 
The inner beveled side of each 
molding strip that paneled the wall had 
been painstakingly painted in turquoise 
to connect this scheme with the floor. 
The semi-circular tops of the recessed 
bookshelves were filled in with decora¬ 
tive pieces of wood toned in antique 
gold and decorated in turquoise, black, 
and Chinese red. Two tiny black and 
gold silhouettes were hung on the wall, 
and curtains of the palest gold colored 
French voile, embroidered in wool, were 
hung at the windows. 
Nothing was expensive in this room 
except those two chairs, and the plan 
of the wall background itself. Eventu¬ 
ally came the sofa, upholstered hand¬ 
somely in blue, black and gold frizette, 
which replaced the black and gold set¬ 
tee. Another year brought the satin- 
wood desk; later came the gray and 
black imported rug, the floor-length 
curtains of taupe gray velours, the 
inner glass curtains of deep ivory silk 
gauze that were almost yellow. The 
next year brought the red lacquer 
(Continued on page 98) 
