The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 23, 1901, Page 5

department, under eble leadership of Greenleaf Locke, 1 be found of interest and Whether is no reason r hould not bs beautiful by artistic ar- nd the proper out- d energy more | expenditure of dence is in- Just address your let- Eate Greenleaf Locke, and these ques- on making the home ar- answered at of backgroun of cert: ngeme hemselves on house ons we we can profit by 1 ach us. A woman who is f1 her home can make a study 31 things and she will her work by the ate aro d her. The s to have an ar o be festooned with jon in exact imitation 1 drapery on hearses. e tasseled fringes will grate 1gh most of the ative, elegant, old s so decorated, she ne of them. She will not ing knotted portieres euggest in her rooms a slee; but she will shake off all tradition and work things out on artistic lines for herself. To proceed with my deseription rope car. There are effects in this house which will have elmost a startling novelty to some minds, &8 instance the mingling in one of the bedrooms of seagreen with a soft and delicate de of old blue; the introduc tion e living room of the crass, startling green of a billiard table; the use of dark green silk sash curtains un- der white organdy, ete. The Living Room. The living room is forty feet long and s finished at one end with an immense ded bay window. An alcoved recess the south side is all of glass and holds tea table and its adjuncts. Three ows run across the front or east side sliding doors are the excuse for arch into the reception room at this end , although the room is exception- and rather heavily furnished h mahogany, has dark polished nd a profusion of rich, dark Turk- owing to the disposition of and the perfect harmony of ed in Its decoration, and cheerful to a de- lighted ““Morris” n yellow, unglazed, with in velvety brown he ceiling, finished in ! beamed, is ; the woodwork ny finish. coloring of the curtains o the charm of the room and of artistic feeling in the dec- is as beautiful as it is unus- A grayish figured net is used in full, t fs against the glass and over g mbouse-colored velour—a use color shot with a yellow light— lined with gold colored satin. The tender on of gray melts charmingly into »w and serves thoroughly to bring h tones of the mahogany. avor to subordinate the vivid the billiard table, which is a suggest the re of 1 re of this room, has resulted in a green thoughtful shading and mingling of rich nes which makes the room fairly pal- pitete with color and yet lends it the ned charm of an old Persian rug. The Reception Room. The reception room which opens out of DINING SLUE . atin broc: nd greens h o rich, »om in Got stron a border; sponds with that « ers on the upper shelf The tapestry her 1dows repes and motif in blues and greens and give a beautiful completeness to the decorative scheme. The furniture for this somewhat me- dieval lookin all of sp al. de- sign and is of in accord with the woodwork The Den. the man of Mother who was once abroad on a s all *‘clothed The den Goose fame “misty, molsty morning. in leather.” The walls are golden tan: the picture mold ar and arabesqu cut which is brilliantly blues and green ola covered with morocco in frieze is hung below the d and inlaid with gold and silv leaf. The effect is that of jewels a rich setting. and the treatment is t en by the leather workers of Cordova. in old Spain, several hundred years Pieces of Cordova leather which are still in existence are said to be as brilliant and jewel-iike as when they were first manipulated by these wonderful artists. An over-mantel leather panel on the chimney breast is actually gorgeous in effect. This work is in relief and repre- sents the heads of Amazons in sil winged helmets, with glittering spears and shields overlaid with pure metal in gold and silver leaf. The faces, the beau- titully modeled arms and hands holding the spears, the horses’ heads and flying manes, stand boldly out, and, like the ris-_ ing sun in the background, are wreathed with gold. This most artistic and orig- inal plece of work, as well as the leather frieze, was done by two California wom- en, who have heen for years endeavoring to solve the mystery of Cordovan leather work. That they have succeeded is evi- denced by the exceeding beauty of this decoration. This panel, glowing with col- or, is most rmingly set amid the deep- toned Oriental furnishings of the other- wise quiet room A Blue and Green Bedchamber. A bedchamber on the second floor is also remarkable for its color. Blues and sea greens are mingled in its furnishings and decoration. The room is large, being 18; The western exposure is a large half-circular bay, having five windows. These are so curtained as to give the coolest and airiest effect possible. Each window has two full curtains of white point d'esprit; these are tied back and disclose sash curtains of pale green silk. Over the narrow strip of wall between each window a full scarf of the green #ilk §s hung and caught in with the deli- cate tasseled cords of white silk, which hold the net drapery. The walls are hung with paper having a decided, though soft,” blue ground. and over this are scattered white Cherokee roses with their cold green foliage. The celiing down to the plcture mold is the white of a shadow on the roses, and the carpet is a plain velvet in a deeper shade of old blue, The twin brass beds have valanced point d’esprit covers over coverlets of light blue N = sk, and a beaut the upholstery of couch a s by its design and coloring to blue and green h one of the nu flowered cretonne for d window seat ng bedchambers ir house is a confection of delicate cc nd the cont of this style of furnishing with the heavy and rich effects t Our Grandmothers’ Bedchambers. In bedroom furn ings it is the fad of the moment to “revisit the glimpses” of one hundred years ago. Large figured pa- pers, c as oil cloth and with e upon it, gigantic roses to have first flowered of the la s the days of our has birds of Par: brilliant hues of green scarlet flitting over it. Bedrooms g In’ these expensive cottons brass beds with half canoples from which curtains of flowered chintz de- muslin on: and wic chintz. med pie placed, on the chifforiers brass, or crystal amid congenial sur- the paper- hangers with their handsomest paper: design for the side wall will be good in perfect taste, whex io! before your 1 unroll a hideous and hieroglyphics dazzling colors strongly mixed with This, they tell you, Is to outline the ound work in which dewy roses h has touched your imagination. At once your dream of delicate harmo- nies and restful beauty vanishes. If you are to be confronted constantly with this glaring mixture of strong colors and arbi- trary lines vou will never be able to see anything else in the room, and vou are tempted to give up the whole scheme. T will tell you a way out of this dilemma; buy the frieze (as vour tradesman prob- ably tells you he will not sell you the pa- per without it) and burn it. Hang your side wall paper to the picture mold, then select any color contained in your paper that you fancy and color your cefling down to the picture mold in this plain color. This effect in a bedroom, is most beautiful and restful. In such afroom the most exquisitely delicate result can be ob- tained by having the woodwork painted ivery white, with what is called an “egg shell” finish. A higher gloss giving an enamel surface is also handsome. Softly finished (that Is, oiled, waxed and rubbed down) light woods can be substituted, however, if preferred. Of course the first requisite of a bed- room is a certain daintiness which, if ab- sent from the arrangement and treatment of other rooms, will not be so grossly missed. A sleeping room may be fur- nished and decorated in strong colors, or in delicate tones, but to obtain a satisfac- tory results these colors must bq kept clear and fresh in treatment. English bedrooms are more nearly ideal in ar- rangement, I believe, than any in the world, for they combine with extreme neatness a certain coziness which is real- 1y luxury. This {s because they use cre- tonnes and dimitles in warn, bright tints for upholstering and hangings, and be- cause they are not afraild of footstools and Jounging chalrs as Americans seem to be. In certaln French coun- astonished eyes they w frieze of great scrol in try houses a g and cok they thg A noti woman is mark of artistic furgish- bedn reached, but ned the solid comfort s have not atta should also be a feature. to able fault the utter a chairs. The Russian: enjoy most full to remain ind the American nce of rocking who are sald 4to the luxuries of life. and erent to what we consider the nec ties. do not, evidently, consider the dainty bed chamber as an essential part of an establishment. The woes of afi American woman who has rented a fur- nished house in St. Petersburg have been related, ard T tkink one of the hardest s she had to cndure was to find that in a palace of a house where magnificent paintings and superb Oriental rugs adorn- ed the walls of the salon, there was not ore inhabitable bedroom. that the former cceupants had been in the habit of sleen- ing on the couches and ri~h rugs of the lower floor and stuffing their hair brushes, combings, ete., behind the tapestries. In contrast to this paverty of comfort and beauty T will describe jone of the afriest and daintiest bedrooms that it has ever been my fortune to see. 1t is scarcely necescary to add that it forms part of an American home. A Guest Chamber in Yellow. When T was introduced to it T adgmired it so extravagantly thatethe fair house- holder whose® happy conception it was at once gave ma permission to publish its beauty to fhe world. In the first place. the wallpaper was a dream, but a Aream which, she informed me, may hecome a reality for any one who will send to New York for it and pay the price, which, by the way, is not a very extravagant ome. On an ivery-white ground yellow 1oses, not quite so large as cabbages, but the size of an ordinary let- tuce head, travled with spray-like green stems and delicate leaves-from the picture molding to the dado. This dado was a thing of beauty never to be forgotten, for it represented a green lattice-work, through which the roses clambered in and out, and gave to the room the look of being half a garden and wholly en- chanting. The celling and frleze were in plain vellow, the picture molding in un- glazed ivory white, as was the rest of the woodwork in the room. The dressing table and brass bed were draped in sheer ‘white dimity—dimity as fine and thih as organdie; on the floor was an India matting, which had been stalned a rich, soft yellow and then var- nished. The wicker furniture was finlshed in the efame way, and the chairs and couch were covered with an exquisite chintz, which fairly reproduced the pat- tern of the wall Being an artist in ceramics, she had ob~ tained an effect which would be denfed the ordinary woman. She had painted for her washstand and again for her dressing table a porcelain set in roses, which were the exact counterpart of the ones on the paper. But the crowning touch to the room was a triumph of that “Infinite capacity for taking pains” which savors of genius, The two long French windows, which opened out on a balcony, had for their interior decoration curtains of dimity, At the top of each of these windows and abpve the glass doors, against which hung the white curtains, was a stationary panel of glass two feet high and the width of the window. Through this showed clearly a green lattice-work (exactly like the one on the dado), which was built on the outside of the window at the top. A climbing yellow rose (the real thing this - time) had been carefully trained over the balcony, o as to run in and out through this lattice, From the inalde of the room the sun or red roses, but the fact of having seen draped lattice and the effect obtained of This original and charming idea would it in yellow has lent an additional charm the curtains hanging from it to the floor. be just as attractive carried out in pink- to that color for me ever since. and shadow playing through the rose- were fascinating beyond description,