re often bought
in the red and dyed to get this shade of brown.

For attractive cheap dining-room furniture, buy simple shapes,
unfinished, and have the table, sideboard and chairs painted dark or
light, as you prefer.

In your dining-room and halls, if the house is old and floors bad, and
economy necessary, use a solid dark linoleum, either deep blue or red,
and have it _waxed_, as an economical measure as well as to improve
its appearance.

In a small home, where no great formality is observed, well chosen
doilies may be used on all occasions, instead of table cloths. By this
expedient you suppress one large item on the laundry bill, the care of
the doilies in such cases falling to the waitress.

To make comfortable, convenient and therefore livable, a part of a
house, formerly an attic, or an extension with small rooms and low
ceilings, seems to be the special province of a certain type of mind,
which works best when there is a tax on the imagination.

When reclaiming attic rooms, one of the problems is how to get wall
space, especially if there are dormer windows and very slanting
ceilings. One way, is to place a dressing table _in_ the dormer, under
windows, covering the sides of the dormer recess with mirror glass,
edged with narrow moulding. The dressing-table is not stationary,
therefore it can be easily moved by a maid, when the rooms are
cleaned.

CHAPTER XXVII

TREATMENT OF A GUEST ROOM

(Where economy is not an item of importance)

Here we can indulge our tastes for beautiful quality of materials and
fine workmanship, as well as good line and colour, so we describe a
room which has elegant distinction and atmosphere, yet is not a
so-called period room--rather a modern room, in the sense that it
combines beautiful lines and exquisite colouring with every modern
development for genuine comfort and convenience.

The walls are panelled and painted a soft taupe--there are no
pictures; simply one very beautiful mirror in a dull-gold frame, a
Louis XVI reproduction.

PLATE XXIII

In another suite we have a boudoir done in sage greens and soft
browns. The curtains of taffeta, in stripes of the two colours.
Two tiers of creme net form sash curtains.

The carpet is a rich mulberry brown, day-bed a reproduction of an
antique, painted in faded greens with _panier fleuri_ design on
back, in lovely faded colours, taffeta cushions of sage green and
an occasion