lawns and groves.

The walls are painted orange and striped with pale yellow; the floors
are covered with the new variety of matting which imitates tiles, and
shows large squares of colour, blocked off by black. The chintzes used
are in vivid orange, yellow and green, in a stunning design; the
wicker chairs are painted orange and black, and from the immense
iridescent globes of electric light hang long, orange silk tassels.

PLATE XXVI

Shows how to utilise and make really very attractive an extension
roof, by converting it into a balcony.

An awning of broad green and white stripes protect this one in
winter as well as summer, and by using artificial ivy, made of
tin and painted to exactly imitate nature, one gets, as you see,
a charming effect.

[Illustration: _An Extension Roof in New York Converted into a
Balcony_]

Iron fountains, wonderful designs in black and gold, throw water over
gold and silver fish, or gay water plants; while, in black and gold
cages, vivid parrots and orange-coloured canaries gleam through
the bars. Iron vases of black and gold on tall pedestals, are filled
with trailing ivy and bright coloured plants. Along the walls are
wicker sofas, painted orange and black, luxuriously comfortable with
down cushions covered, as are some of the chair cushions, in soft
lemon, sun-proofed twills.

Here one finds card-tables, tea-tables and smoking-tables, a
writing-desk fully equipped, and at one end, a wardrobe of black and
gold, hung with an assortment of silk wraps and "wooleys"--for an
unprovided and chilly guest, in early spring, when the steam heat is
off and the glass front open.

Even on a grey, winter day, this orange and gold room seems flooded
with sun, and gives one a distinctly cheerful sensation when entering
it from the house.

Of course, if your porch-room is mainly for mid-summer use and your
house in a warm region, then we commend instead of sun-producing
colours, cool tones of green, grey or blue. If your porch floor is
bad, cover it with dark-red linoleum and wax it. The effect is like a
cool, tiled floor. On this you can use a few porch rugs.

Black and white awnings or awnings in broad, green-and-white stripes,
or plain green awnings, are deliciously cool-looking, and rail-boxes
filled with green and white or blue and pale pink flowers are
refreshing on a summer day.

By the sea, where the air is bracing, and it is not necessary to trick