is of my own design, a simple white
painted metal bed. There is a _chaise-longue_, upholstered in the pink
and white striped chintz of the room. The same chintz is used for window
hangings, bed spread, and so forth. There is a little spindle legged
table of mahogany, and another table at the head of the bed which
contains the reading light. There is also a little white stool, with a
cushion of the chintz, beside the bed. The dressing-table is so simple
that any girl might copy it--it is a chintz-hung box with a sheet of
plate glass on top, and a white framed mirror hung above it. The
electric lights in this room are cleverly made into candlesticks which
are painted to match the chintz. The writing-table is white, with a
mahogany chair in front of it.

Another bedroom has a narrow four post bed of mahogany, with hangings of
China blue sprigged with small pink roses. There was another in green
and white. In every case these bedrooms were equipped with rugs of
neutral and harmonious tone. The dressing-tables were always painted to
harmonize with the chintzes or the furniture. Wherever possible there
was an open fireplace. Roomy clothes closets added much to the comfort
of each room, and there was always a couch of delicious softness, or a
_chaise-longue,_ and lounging chairs which invited repose.

[Illustration: By permission of the Butterick Publishing Co.
MAUVE CHINTZ IN A DULL-GREEN ROOM]

Nothing so nice has happened in a long time as the revival of painted
furniture, and the application of quaint designs to modern beds and
chairs and chests. You may find inspiration in a length of chintz, in an
old fan, in a faded print--anywhere! The main thing is to work out a
color plan for the background--the walls, the furniture, and the
rugs--and then you can draw or stencil the chosen designs wherever they
seem to belong, and paint them in with dull tones and soft colors, rose
and buff and blue and green and a little bit of gray and cream and
black. Or, if you aren't even as clever as that (and you probably
_are!_) you can decorate your painted furniture with narrow lines of
color: dark green on a light green ground; dark blue on yellow; _any_
color on gray or cream--there are infinite possibilities of color
combinations. In one of the rooms shown in the illustrations the posy
garlands on the chest of drawers were inspired by a lamp jar. This
furniture was carefully planned, as may be seen by the little urns on
the bedposts