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revival of glazed linens, with beautiful coloured designs, made up
into shades. These are very attractive in a sunny room where the
strong light brings out the design of flowers, fruits or foliage.
Plate X shows a room in which this style of shade is used with great
success. It is to be especially commended in such a case as Plate X,
where no curtains are used at windows. Here the figured linen shade is
a deliberate contribution to the decorative scheme of the room and
completes it as no other material could.

Awnings can make or mar a house, give it style or keep it in the class
of the commonplace. So choose carefully with reference to the colour
of your house. The fact that awnings show up at a great distance and
never "in the hand," as it were, argues in favour of clear stripes, in
two colours and of even size, with as few extra threads of other
colours as possible.

PLATE XI

Shows a part of a fine, old Italian refectory table, and one of
the chairs, also antiques, which are beautifully proportioned and
made comfortable with cushions of dark red velvet, in colour like
curtains at window, which are of silk brocade.

The standard electric lamps throw the light _up_ only. There are
four, one in each corner of the room, and candles light the
table.

The wall decoration here is a flower picture.

[Illustration: _Corner of Dining-room in New York Apartment, Showing
Section of Italian Refectory Table and Italian Chairs, Both Antique
and Renaissance_]

_All awnings fade_, even in one season; green is, perhaps, the least
durable in the sun, yellows and browns look well the longest.
Fortunately an awning, a discouraging sight when taken down and in a
collapsed mass of faded canvas, will often look well when up and
stretched, because the strong light brings out the fresh colour of the
inside. Hence one finds these rather expensive necessities of summer
homes may be used for several seasons.

CHAPTER VII

TREATMENT OF PICTURES AND PICTURE FRAMES

Strive to have the subject of your pictures appropriate to the room in
which they are to be hung.

It is impossible to state a rule for this, however, because while
there are many styles of pictures which all are able to classify, such
as old paintings which are antique in colouring, method and subject,
portraits, figure pictures, architectural pictures, flower and fruit
pictures, modern oil paintings of various subj