ou in such a room,
congregate them on one or two shelves above your books.

CHAPTER XXVI

TREATMENT OF AN INEXPENSIVE BEDROOM

The experience of the author is that the most attractive, inexpensive
furniture is that made by the Leavens factory in Boston. This
furniture is so popular with all interior decorators that it needs no
further advertising. Order for each single iron bed two _foot boards_,
instead of a head and a footboard. This the factory will supply upon
demand. Then have your bed painted one of the colours you have chosen
as in the colour scheme for your room. Say, the prevailing note of
your chintz. Have two rolls made, to use at the head and foot (which
are now of equal height) and cover these and the bed with chintz, or,
if preferred, with sun-proof material in one of the other colours in
your chintz. By this treatment your cheap iron bed of ungainly
proportions, has attained the quality of an interesting, as well as
unique, "day-bed."

PLATE XXII

Two designs for day-beds which are done in colours to suit the
scheme of any room.

These beds are fitted with box springs and a luxurious mattress
of feathers or down, covered with silk or chintz, coverlet and
cushions of similar material, in colours harmonising with beds.
If desired, these lounges can be made higher from the floor.

[Illustration: _Two Styles of Day-beds_]

The most attractive cheap bureau is one ordered "in the plain" from
the factory, and painted like the bed. If you would entirely remove
the factory look, have the mirror taken off the bureau and hang it on
the wall over what, by your operation, has become a chest of drawers.
If you want a long mirror in your rooms, the cheapest variety is
mirror glass, fastened to the back of doors with picture moulding to
match woodwork. This is also the cheapest variety of over-mantel
mirrors. We have seen it used with great success, let into walls of
narrow halls and bedrooms and framed with a dull-gold moulding in the
style of room.

For chairs, use the straight wooden ones which are made to match the
bureau, and paint them like the bed and bureau.

For comfortable arm-chairs, wicker ones with chintz-covered pads for
seat and back are best for the price, and these can also be painted.

Cheap tables, which match the bureau, when painted will do nicely as a
small writing-table or a night-table for water, clock, book, etc.

If the floors are new and