SEMI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE
Decorations for Walls
and Ceilings
The uic of Alabastinc tints for ceilings and
walls Is becoming more popular. This popu
larity is due to three reasons:
First, the use of Alabastinc permits of
great variety of effects in different rooms.
It is easy to give character to a room with
water colors. Alabastinc comes in a great
variety of shades and tints, and by mixing
these shades and tints an almost unlimited
variety of color schemes can be procured.
Second, Alabastinc is inexpensive, conse
quently each year it can be renewed, or the
tints in the different rooms changed, if desired,
A third and very important reason is that
Alabastine is very sanitary. Kalsnmincs arc
temporary, and when the action of the air be
gins to disintegrate the glue the tinting rubs
off or "chalks." The pastes with which wall
paper is applied to walls forms a breeding place
for germs, and it is therefore barred from many
schools and hospitals by Hoards of Health.
Dining Room Interior
Alabastinc, while applied in a similar man
ner to kalsominc, is chemically different and
mixes readily with cold, warm or hot water.
It will not rub off, and it is particularly well
adapted for use on new walls, because after
the walls have cracked, or settled, another
coat can be put over it without washing it off.
But it can be washed off readily if it is desired
to change the tinting on the walls or ceilings.
Alabastinc is made from alabaster, and it
has been manufactured for more than twenty
five years. It has stood the test of all sorts of
climatic conditions, heat and cold, moisture
and dryness.
As a rule new walls should be treated with
a coat of site, or otherwise prepared for the
receiving of the finish.
In a new building there is almost certain
to be a settling of the walls, which causes
cracks more or less conspicuous, and it is a
good plan to place on the new walls a coat
ing that can be easily removed.
Alabastinc, being a water color, can be
easily removed when it is desirable to take'
the color all off down to the wall itself.
As Alabastinc is not expensive it is recom
mended for use on walls and ceilings of new
buildings. Any competent painter can use
Alabastinc effectively. It comes in dry pow
der ready to mix with cold water, according
to directions which are on each package, and
applied with an ordinary wall brush.
Flat paints on walls arc all right, if the walls
arc in perfect condition, but should it scale
in places to get the paint off of the wall it be
comes necessary to burn the paint off, which
is, a very expensive operation. The cost of
flat paints is considerable and when washed
the results obtained arc not satisfactory for
living rooms. There arc many places, how
ever, where a washable paint is desirable,
such, for instance, as bath rooms, kitchens,
below the plate rail of dining rooms, along
the stairways, or in other places where the
walls are likely to be soiled by placing the
hands against them, or brushing them with
damp clothing. In such places a flat wall
paint, such as Alabasco, which is made by
the Alabastine Co., can be used in connec
tion with Alabastine, using Alabastine for the
upper walls and ceilings, and the color scheme
maintained just the same as though the work
was all done with Alabastinc.
The manufacturers of Alabastine give free
stencils to users of their goods and with the
use of these stencils a jjreat variety of attractive
border effects arc obtained.
Alabastine and Alabasco arc made by the
Alabastine Co,, 80 Grandvitlc Ave, Grand
Rapids, Mich., and the company has just
published a handsome book showing 40 color
plans of interiors in actual colors. It is a
guide to correct color schemes "and up-to-date
harmonious, water color effects. The booklet
is sent free to anyone who writes for it.
FORMALITY VERSUS
INFORMALITY
T"0 you want your Homo to express
I-your individuality or don't you
really care a rap about Its Individu
ality or expression one way or tho
other? There Is the woman who said,
"I want my house to express me!"
and the woman who answered, "I
don't care what my houso expresses
so long as It pleases." Both view
points are worthy, and both are nat
ural. We have tried In the Ideal
Houso to furnish fertile ground for
expression; the seal of Individuality
Is easily Bet upon It, whllo as It Is,
It is completo In pleasing qualities.
If more dignity or formality Is re
quired, an Iron gato In the hedge, a
tiled roof, bronze leaders, and moro
severity In tho garden will glvo tho
desired effect. Greater Informality
may be obtained by the use of a
Dutch door, wooden shutters on tho
lower windows, settles on the porch,
and less labor lavished on the up
keep of the grounds or moro happily
a slight disorder observed.
Wo bellevo that tho Ideal Homo
strikes a happy medium between In
formality and formality, both In
room arrangement, Interior furnish
ing, and In the exterior where the
slight conventionality of tho street
frontago blends off Into the Intimacy
of tho rest of tho grounds. Indoors,
tho walls and woodwork of the living
rooms are treated to give a rich and
yet restful effect; a neutral and har
monious background for the acces
sories that make up a home. Tho
bedrooms arc designed to Impress
you with their dainty simplicity, and
tho porches with their great possi
bilities for open air comfort. The big
room is all informality with its cen
tering flreplnce, its long tablo spread
with books and magazines, and Its
easy Inviting chairs placed so con
veniently near tho numerous lamps
and lights. The dining room, on the
other hand, has a slight air of for
mality, of dignified, limited use; Its
orderly remoteness as noted by tho
casual caller serving to give tho
formal note.
Porches should proclaim a decid
edly unconventional stand. Tho cov-
cred porch of tho Ideal House is
reached through tho central hall, and
Is cut off from any formal approach
clearly Intended as a placo of In
timacy and retreat. Hero should bo
tho ever delightful Gloucester Ham
mock, a porch rug of woven grass,
easy wicker or hickory chairs, and
many pillows, n low table for tea or
sewing, and large mouthed Jars for
flowering branches. The chairs should
bo of a sort that ono could leave out
In a rain storm without harm, and
tho other accessories easily moved
Indoors.
A suggestion of formality may bo
observed In the guest room (not nec
essarily tho choice room of the
houso); but not to the loss of the
personal touch that makes for homey,
ness, the true essential of every
house.
THE CAR-ACE
piIAT good-tlmo car of yours will
need a housing. You have learned
ero now that you can avoid consid
erable expense by keeping It at home.
You havo seen how your neighbors
havo crowded In little portable
shacks just back of their houses and
you havo felt, with us, that the
garago should bo part of tho general
scheme of things and considered at
tho start. Our Idea Is chiefly this:
sightliness, economy of construction,
utility and simplicity of up-kcep.
Tho Ideal Garage costs, according
to actual estimate five hundred dol
lars complete. It Is constructed of
the same material as the houso:
stucco on metal lath and sheathing,
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How We Decorate the
Ideal Home
(Continued from Page 7)
mals, sailing ships, little Dutch figures
or a Kate Greenaway design, might be
placed, not too high, and yet high
enough to bo out of reach of tiny trac
ing fingers, not always over clean.
Little shelves put up hero would hold
tho favorite toys where they could al
ways bo seen and reached down by
tho elders to waiting hands. A ma
hogany high-boy to hold the crisp lit
tle garments stands near the window
and opposite the other room door. Tho
bed or cribs are of wood enameled
whllo and slatted. A night stand,
chairs, a chiffonier and a big closet
complete tho furnishings. A screen to
cut off draughts would bo an excel
lent addition and might bo made very
Interesting by a repetition of tho same
Btenclled pattern. Tho rug would be
a largo homespun affair In plain tones
of buff with a giddy little border on
each end, of cottages and windmills,
clouds and green hills.
'T'HE kitchen and pantry have a color
A scheme of delft blue and white,
very simply carried out by means of
blue cooking utensils and china
ngalnst the whlto walls. A blue and
white china clock, a few Jars in the
samo ware, marked for dry groceries,
dish towels of blue cross-bar and little
white cheeso cloth sash curtains give
tho desired effect.
The owner's bathroom has a pale
green tint on the upper walls. The
lower walls of cement marked off Into
tiles, Is mado washablo and whlto with
enamel paint.
HpHB front bedroom facing tho gar-
den boasts a color effect at once
simple and exquisite. This room, dedi
cated to some member or members of
the family, (possibly two boys or two
growing girls) has a soft old blue wall
treatment. Tho woodwork and furni
ture is creamy whlto enamel. The
room is so largo that tho white bed,
dressing tablo ami chair or chiffonier,
if the occupants bo of tho malo sex,
occupy an alcove, leaving tho greater
part of the room frco as a sitting
room, boudoir or study. A comfortnble
loungo is drawn across tho foot of tho
bed, providing space for n chum over
night possibly, and at any rate a
cosy loafing placo near tho window
seat where one might also stretch at
ease. A tea table stands here, or a
smoking stand, as the case may be. A
desk tablo beyond, gets tho light from
tho big window. Tho dressing room
or closet Is an admirable placo to tuck
away nick nacks. Three easy chairs
and a bookcase, hedging tho chimney,
complete tho furnishings. The .rugs
nro deep blue with whlto fringe. Tho
hangings are a Japanese crepy fabric
in blue and white. Tho lounge is cov
ered with plain blue with some pil
lows of the same, and some of the
crepe. A lamp on tho desk table has a
shado of whlto rice paper a blue
blotter, blue cups and saucers, old blue
sun-fast silky curtains at the book
case, and a cast or two mako up a
dainty and utilitarian bedrom.
T'HE guest room in ambers and yel-
lows has an inviting and cheerful
effect. Tho yellow walls and white
woodwork, tho white furniture, the
flower-sprinkled cretonne In a quaint
little pattern of tiny roses and twin
ing green leaves, bring a feeling of
sunshine and happiness. The twin
beds are heavy and simple, and spread
with white. The arm chairs are natu
ral willow. The rouch under the slope
of tho roof is covered with flowered
stuff. Tho low table near tho window
holds a dark bronze lamp with an
amber shade and a book rack of read
ing matter selected to conform to tho
tastes of tho guest. A dressing table
of whlto enamel with a little stool to
match, that slips under It, Is grouped
near tho bed, as Is also a tall white
chiffonier and an easy chair near the
window. Tho rugs aro of dark green
Jute, preferably of a cottage weave
that needs little care when not In use.
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