Treatment of Floors--Polished Wood, Mosaics.
Judicious Selection of Rugs and Carpets.

CHAPTER XII.
Draperies.
Importance of Appropriate Colours.
Importance of Appropriate Textures.

CHAPTER XIII
Furniture.
Character in Rooms.
Harmony in Furniture.
Comparison Between Antique and Modern Furniture.
Treatment of the Different Rooms.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Dining-room in "Penny-royal" (Mrs. Boudinot Keith's cottage, Onteora)

Hall in city house, showing effect of staircase divided and turned to
rear

Stenciled borders for hall and bathroom decorations

Sitting-room in "Wild Wood," Onteora (belonging to Miss Luisita Leland)

Large sitting-room in "Star Rock" (country house of W.E. Connor, Esq.,
Onteora)

Painted canvas frieze and buckram frieze for dining-room

Square hall in city house

Colonial chairs and sofa (belonging to Mrs. Ruth McEnery Stuart)

Colonial mantel and English hob-grate (sitting-room in Mrs. Candace
Wheeler's house)

Sofa designed by Mrs. Candace Wheeler, for N.Y. Library in "Woman's
Building," Columbia Exposition

Rustic sofa and tables in "Penny-royal" (Mrs. Boudinot Keith's cottage,
Onteora)

Dining-room in "Star Rock" (country house of W.E. Connor, Esq., Onteora)

Dining-room in New York house showing leaded-glass windows

Dining-room in New York home showing carved wainscoting and painted
frieze

Screen and glass windows in house at Lakewood (belonging to Clarence
Root, Esq.)

Principles of Home Decoration

CHAPTER I

DECORATION AS AN ART

"_Who creates a Home, creates a potent spirit which in turn doth fashion
him that fashioned._"

Probably no art has so few masters as that of decoration. In England,
Morris was for many years the great leader, but among his followers in
England no one has attained the dignity of unquestioned authority; and
in America, in spite of far more general practice of the art, we still
are without a leader whose very name establishes law.

It is true we are free to draw inspiration from the same sources which
supplied Morris and the men associated with him in his enthusiasms, and
in fact we do lean, as they did, upon English eighteenth-century
domestic art--and derive from the men who made that period famous ma