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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar91912newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
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418 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS December, 1912
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Living-room end of the bungalow at "Muckross"
finished with a foot-and-a-half wide picture railing. Above
this is a rough plaster frieze tinted in cafe-au-lait, which
color is also used in the beamed ceiling. The floor is cov-
ered with two nine-by-twelve Indian druggets in soft ivory
grounds with figures in blue and brown. The furniture is of
oak, stained a soft brown with ammonia. On the large
divan, as well as the several rockers of the living-room, are
brown leather pillows which match the upholstering of the
divan. The flat-top desk table in the center of the room
is covered in the same brown leather, fastened with copper
nails which match the hand-wrought copper handles, desk-
set and copper lamp. The fixtures for this room and the
bed-chamber, as well, are of original design—hand-wrought
copper with glass shades in brown and amber. Linen-col-
ored shades screen the windows, over which fall ecru fillet
net curtains with hand-embroidered borders in a darker
brown floss, while the heavy draperies at either side are
of a soft old blue Scotch arras cloth, with flat, simple val-
ances, embroidered and appliqued in colors to bring the tones
embodied in the room and rugs together. Then, in
the center of the wall space opposite the main entrance,
hang portieres and valance which harmonize with the win-
dow draperies. These portieres hide from view a bunk in
which is a spring attached to elevating cords, and on the
bottom, above several drawers, is a cushion in brown Arras
cloth. Thus is made a cushion effect in the daytime and a
bed at night, with accommodations for another in the upper
berth on the elevating or depressing spring.
The dining-room half of this room is in harmony with
the other half, since it carries out the same general tone in
the furnishings. From the center of the beamed ceiling
hangs a beautiful hand-wrought copper dome light, under
which is a copy of an old, round Dutch table. Around the
room are oak side chairs with seats upholstered in the same
brown leather. A plain, simple sideboard ornaments one
side of the room, while at the end are two china cabinets
which match the rest of the furniture. But distinguish-
ing the entire room are its many fine specimens of the birds
and wild creatures which were captured by the owner.
Among these are mounted trophies of bears, foxes, deer,
weasels, squirrels, partridges, and an unusually good speci-
men of a wildcat.
Opening from the living-room is the owner's bed-cham-
ber. Here the color effect is in soft gray browns, the walls
being hung with coarse bagging. The woodwork is the same
as in the outer apartment. The floor is covered with a hand-
made wool rug in an original design in browns. The furni-
ture consists of a brown-toned oak bed. On this is used a
hand-embroidered linen bedspread of original design. Then
a chiffonier of oak, trimmed with copper, over which is sus-
pended from copper chains from the cornice a large oak
mirror. Several side chairs, rockers, and a bed table com-
plete the set. The draperies are linen-colored shades,
gauzed with ecru fillet net, hand-embroidered in a dark
brown floss.
But this chamber, like the outer apartment, has a dis-
tinguishing "feature." For it is here that the switchboard,
in the form of a cabinet, is located. This, together with the
"Falls," which will be explained later, are the pets and pride
of the owner, as, indeed, the real features of Muckross.

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