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Both the day and night nurseries are, to me, rooms to be dealt with daringly, always with the influence of one's daring in mind upon the quickly developing minds of the children who are to be subjected to it. They are rooms that will not be used for any great number of years and they may therefore possess a more ephemeral scheme of decoration than the other more permanent places of habitation. Bright colors, especially, are proper to them, decorated wall surfaces, embroidered curtains with animals and flowers, furniture painted with scenes from fairy tales and the like, may have an educational as well as a pleasurable effect on the young occupants. The cribs, the nurse's bed, the chest of drawers and chairs in the one room, and the cabinets and boxes for toys and play tables
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A combination of drawing room and library in the apartment of a young lady of literary tastes. The walls and woodwork are dull glazed green and the furniture coverings violet, some of damask and others of velvet.
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An elaborate living room with velvet hangings from under walnut cornices.
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and benches and chairs in the other, should have an amusing quality which might be frowned down upon in the dignified portions of the house.
The guest rooms, also, may be more daring than the master bedrooms, as they are occupied less frequently. An avoidance of monotony* between the various bed chambers, where there are several, is most important, and for this reason I advise different moods, different periods, different color schemes, unless one is clever enough to accomplish the same result by creating subtle differences in the same style. I have always been desirous, although I have for some reason not yet satisfied the desire, to do four guest rooms in the atmosphere of the four seasons: one a galaxy of soft colors taken from all the spring flowers, with painted furniture and multi-toned fabrics; another with the brighter hues of riotous summer filled with sunlight-colored wood; a third in the tones of .autumn leaves with a touch of green and dark oak; and the last in cold blues and lavenders and the silver glint of Hungarian ash.
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