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In the bedrooms little linen or even cotton curtains with good designs printed upon them can be made up very simply to draw across the windows and to give charming color to the room, which, if fairly high, can be provided with valances. Machine-embroidered plain fabrics have been recently very widely employed in the smaller country houses.
A great deal naturally depends upon whether the house is a bungalow in the woods, a farmhouse, a small cottage by the sea (in this case, the extreme dampness must be. taken into account) or a small suburban residence. One submits gracefully in the woods of Maine to discomforts and simplicities which would appear heinous offences in New Rochelle, Elberon, or Long Beach. One cannot commute daily to New York and perform one's business efficiently if one lives in a house with one pipe bringing water from a nearby brook, nor can one catch an early train after preparing his own breakfast on a wood fire. Suburban houses, at least, must be thoroughly modern, and if they are rebuilt from older houses they must be like new. For this purpose, brick, stucco and stone will be
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White oak, finished a light gray on the natural wood, prevails in this suburban dining room, which is done after the
style of Duncan Phyfe.
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A bedroom, the main pieces of which are in walnut. The walls, the night table, mirror and chair are all in green enamel.
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more often employed than wood, and interiors that are used in summer and winter will be constructed and furnished more or less like those of the city home, with a change of curtains for the warmer months, slip covers, and a certain completeness of detail. It is to be hoped that several accessories, such as fine fireplaces, French windows, large areas of floor space, and closet space, may be had even in this period of tremendous building costs, which compel owners and architects to study every inch to make it useful and every dollar to make it tell.
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