The
electric lights in this room are cleverly made into candlesticks which
are painted to match the chintz. The writing-table is white, with a
mahogany chair in front of it.
Another bedroom has a narrow four post bed of mahogany, with hangings of
China blue sprigged with small pink roses. There was another in green
and white. In every case these bedrooms were equipped with rugs of
neutral and harmonious tone. The dressing-tables were always painted to
harmonize with the chintzes or the furniture. Wherever possible there
was an open fireplace. Roomy clothes closets added much to the comfort
of each room, and there was always a couch of delicious softness, or a
_chaise-longue,_ and lounging chairs which invited repose.
[Illustration: By permission of the Butterick Publishing Co.
MAUVE CHINTZ IN A DULL-GREEN ROOM]
Nothing so nice has happened in a long time as the revival of painted
furniture, and the application of quaint designs to modern beds and
chairs and chests. You may find inspiration in a length of chintz, in an
old fan, in a faded print--anywhere! The main thing is to work out a
color plan for the background--the walls, the furniture, and the
rugs--and then you can draw or stencil the chosen designs wherever they
seem to belong, and paint them in with dull tones and soft colors, rose
and buff and blue and green and a little bit of gray and cream and
black.
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