-rooms a plain dark-coloured linoleum, costing not
less than two dollars a yard makes and inexpensive floor covering.
If it is waxed it becomes not only very durable but, also, extremely
effective, suggesting the dark tiles in Italian houses. We do not
advise the purchase of the linoleums which represent inlaid floors, as
they are invariably unsuccessful imitations.

If it is necessary to economise and your brass bedstead must be used
even though you dislike it, you can have it painted the colour of your
walls. It requires a number of coats. A soft pearl grey is good. Then
use a colour, or colours, in your silk or chintz bedspread. Sun-proof
material in a solid colour makes an attractive cover, with a narrow
fringe in several colours straight around the edges and also, forming
a circle or square on the top of the bed-cover.

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If your gas or electric fixtures are ugly and you cannot afford more
attractive ones, buy very cheap, perfectly plain, ones and paint them
to match the walls, giving decorative value to them with coloured silk
shades.

PLATE III

Shows one end of a very small bedroom with modern painted
furniture, so simple in line and decoration that it would be
equally appropriate either for a young man or for a young woman.
We say "young," because there is something charmingly fresh and
youthful about this type of furniture.

The colour is pale pistache green, with mulberry lines, the same
combination of colours being repeated in painting the walls which
have a grey background lined with mulberry--the broad stripe--and
a narrow green line. The bed cover is mulberry, the lamp shade is
green with mulberry and grey in the fringe.

On the walls are delightful old prints framed in black glass with
gold lines, and a narrow moulding of gilded oak, an old style
revived.

A square of antique silk covers the night table, and the floor is
polished hard wood.

Here is your hall bedroom, the wee guest room in a flat, or the
extra guest room under the eaves of your country house, made
equally beguiling. The result of this artistic simplicity is a
restful sense of space.

[Illustration: _Suggestion for Treatment of a Very Small Bedroom_]

If you wish to use twin beds and have not wall space for them, treat
one like a couch or day-bed. See Plate II. Your cabinet-maker can
rem