The architects are building nowadays many houses that have a sun-room,
or conservatory, or breakfast room. The smallest cottage may have a
little breakfast room done in green and white lattice, with green
painted furniture and simple flower boxes. I have had furniture of the
most satisfactory designs made for my trellis rooms. Green painted wood
with cane insets seems most suitable for the small rooms, and the
marbles of the old trellised _Temples d'Amour_ may be replaced by cement
benches in our modern trellis pavillions.
There is so much of modern furniture that is refreshing in line and
color, and adapted to these sun-rooms. There is a desk made by Aitchen,
a notable furniture designer in London, which I have used in a sun-room.
The desk is painted white, and is decorated with heavy lines of dark
green. The drawer front and the doors of the little cupboard are filled
with cane. The knobs are of green. This desk would be nice in a white
writing-room in a summer cottage, though it was planned for a trellis
room. It could be used as a dressing table, with a bench or chair of
white, outlined in green, and a good mirror in white and green frame.
Another desk I have made is called a jardiniere table, and was designed
for Mrs. Ogden Armour's garden room at Lake Forest. The desk, or table,
is painted gray, with faint green decorations.
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