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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesga41907newy (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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The Billiard Room Is Paneled in Green, with Rough Plastered Walls windows which extend to the floor, admits to the central hall. This is a spacious apartment opening onto the ocean side of the house. At each end is an arcade formed of low elliptical arches, of which the middle one is much the widest, sup- ported on wood columns. A high wainscot of paneled oak is carried completely around the room; the upper wall is finished with a plain white surface. The ceiling is white and beamed, with large panels. The mantel is under the arcade to the left. It has brick facings within oak columns supporting a frieze, below which is a relief. On the right the entire wall is filled with a series of glazed doors, curtained, separating the hall from the dining- room. There are handsome Oriental rugs on the hard- wood floor. The curtains at the windows are red damask, and the furniture, for the most part, is covered with red leather and velvet. The stairs to the upper story rise on the entrance front and are carried across the en- trance doorway by the plat- form. The walls of the upper hall are covered with a diapered pattern. On the left of the hall is a passage that leads to the li- brary, situated in the furthest wing of the house and on the entrance front. It is charm- ingly furnished In the Mis- sion style. The prevailing color is green; the hardwood floor, the rug, the wainscot, the upper walls, the wood of the furniture, the velvet cur- tains at the windows, the beams and panels of the ceil- ing, are all in beautifully harmonized shades of green. The chairs are covered with a reddish brown leather; the wainscot supports a shelf, and a handsome copper elec- tric chandelier depends from the center of the ceiling. Behind this room, but not connected with it, being en- tered by a separate door from the hall, is the drawing- room. This is a sumptuous apartment in pink and white, very beautifully developed. The walls have a low wain- scot of wood, painted white, and picked out with bands of green. Above they are cov- ered with white watered-silk paper, with the same green bands in the corners and mar- gins, thus forming large panel-like divisions. The cornice is white and richly detailed, and the ceiling is without ornamentation. The wood mantel has facings and hearth of light mottled buff Roman brick. The color of the room is supplied by the rug, the furniture and the curtains. The rug is in two shades of pink. The curtains are of white net with applique borders of pink flowers and green leaves. The furniture is covered
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The Library Is a Mission Room in Vanous Tones of Green

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