of hard wood, wax them and use a square of
plain velvet carpet in a dark tone of your dominant colour. Or if
economy is your aim, use attractive rag rugs which are very cheap and
will wash.

If your floors are old and you intend using a large velvet square,
paint the edges of the floor white, or some pale shade to match the
colour of the walls. Or, use filling all over the floor. If you cannot
afford either and must use small rugs, stain or paint your floors a
dark colour, to be practical, and use only necessary rugs; that is,
one before bed, bureau and fireplace.

Sofas are always expensive. That is one reason for advising that beds
be treated like "day-beds."

Wall papers, at ten cents a roll, come in charming colours and
designs, and with a few cheap French coloured prints, framed in
passepartout, your room is attractive at once.

If your prints are black and white use broad passepartout in same
colour as the wall paper, only a tone deeper. If you use favourite
photographs, suppress all margins and frame with narrow black
passepartout.

For curtains use one of the sixty-or seventy-cent chintzes which come
in attractive designs and colours, or what is still cheaper,
sun-proof material, fifty inches wide (from $1.10 to $1.50 a yard),
and split it in half for curtains, edging them with a narrow fringe of
a contrasting colour which appears in the chintz of chair-pads.
Another variety of cheap curtains is heavy cream scrim with straps
(for looping back) and valance of chintz. These come cheaper than all
chintz curtains and are very effective, suggesting the now popular and
expensive combination of plain toned taffetas combined with chintz.

Use for sash curtains plain scrim or marquesette.

Let your lamps be made of inexpensive one-toned pottery vases,
choosing for these still another colour which appears in the chintz.
The lamp shades can be made of a pretty near-silk, in a plain colour,
with a fringe made up of one, two or three of the colours in the
chintz.

If you happen to have your heart set on deep rose walls and your
bedroom furniture is mahogany, find a chintz with rose and French
blue, and then cover your arm-chair pads and bed with chintz, but make
your curtains of blue sun-proof material, having a narrow fringe of
rose, and use a deep rose carpet, or rugs, or if preferred, a dull
brown carpet to harmonise with the furniture. A plain red Wilton
carpet will dye an artistic deep mulberry brown. They a