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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar61909newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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June, 1909 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 241
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The color scheme of the Hving-room is most effective. The decorations for the room and the furnishings were designed by the owner Under the stair landing is a most convenient little cupboard, which the master of the house calls his "Boozorium," as in one small corner of it he keeps a few joyful bottles. The most of it, however, is de- voted to a series of shelves upon which are placed a number of cunning individual cooking-pots with covers, of a beautiful lettuce green; these, with pottery plates, teapots, etc., all of lettuce green, were green made by the children in Holland and specially i m - ported for Madame by a kind and artistic friend. The drawers below are for silver, and under these are wide and deep shelves for the table linen, which, being out of the ordinary, deserves a word in passing. The table, being a kitchen table of deal. with oak legs, is stained a dark brown. Around the edge is a small stencil border in green and blue. One can see at once that here the usual white cloth is out of the question, so this has been most pleasantly evaded by using hemstitched doilies of coarse Rus- sian linen, upon which have been sten- ciled a design cover- ing the entire doily. One set is of orange- colored conventional- i z e d pomegranates with all the hems stained yellow. A few of the cur- tains in the upstairs rooms are, perhaps, worthy of note. One sort, painted on un- bleached muslin, has a border of green and blue peacock eves, with spots at intervals on the center field. A bureau runner and table- cover on Russian linen dishtoweling are used with these, while a bedcover of muslin, edged and spotted with peacock eves, com- plete this part of the fur- nishing. Another room has curtains of hollvhocks, growing in a garden.

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