Our doors and windows : how to decorate them . What Good Housekeeping Says about Windows inJ. C. Floods House, San Francisco, Cal. 7*HE library to the left of the ante hall is a room of generous dimensions.^ Here everything is earnest and quiet in color, stately and impressive in style is the early French Rennaissance, the carving not profuse, butdelicious in its crisp-ness, done in Circas-sian walnut, which isfound in the book cases linethe walls all around,and a huge mantel ofvert-antique marble,with large columnscarrying a hood, risesup to, and connectswith the paneled
Our doors and windows : how to decorate them . What Good Housekeeping Says about Windows inJ. C. Floods House, San Francisco, Cal. 7*HE library to the left of the ante hall is a room of generous dimensions.^ Here everything is earnest and quiet in color, stately and impressive in style is the early French Rennaissance, the carving not profuse, butdelicious in its crisp-ness, done in Circas-sian walnut, which isfound in the book cases linethe walls all around,and a huge mantel ofvert-antique marble,with large columnscarrying a hood, risesup to, and connectswith the paneled ceil-ing. The windows,five in number, arehung with curtains ofdark gray-blue silkvelours of exquisitedesign, and so ar-ranged by overheadtransoms of openwood-zvork as to ad-mit the light linenshades and long lacecurtains under theheavy silk ones com-plete the windowfinish. No. 24. A Design for a Cottage
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