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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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Fig. 9—French windows are the feature of this bungalow heavy shelf of wood supported by the simplest of wooden beams often forms the mantelpiece, and in some cases the facing about the fireplace is merely of rough plaster, colored to correspond with the tone of the walls. A beautiful and original effect is sometimes secured by imbedding the beams above the wainscoting and those that border the ceiling in the plaster so that their flat surface is flush with the plaster. (Figure 6.) The color-scheme in a living-room I know is as follows: Walls paneled in brown wood, the ceiling beamed, with rough plaster, the beams washed with pumpkin-yellow. An alcoved fireplace with seats in the inglenook has cushions of brown cotton velvet, relieved with pillows of raw silk in pumpkin-yellow. these pleasing accessories, which cost so little and add so much to the enjoyment of a home, were not used even then, but they evidently were not thought of and have come as an inspiration to the house-builder of to-day. Contrast the funny little mantelpiece of wood, painted to represent black marble, or the yet greater horror of black iron holding a tiny basket-grate for coals, with the wide, yet simple, fire- place in which gas-logs, wood, or coal, may be burned, in the up-to-date house. Here the grate-bas- ket is upheld by andirons, the broad chimney-breast is faced with bricks or tiles whose soft color warms the room. To-day a plain.
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Fig. 10—A simple room showing good taste and refinement in the furnishings

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