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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.