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     STENCILS ESPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR A BUNGALOW
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ORIGINAL DESIGNS USED FOR                 POPPY STENCIL USED BELOW THE PICTURE-MOLDING
           THE STE CIING    OF      HE    IN THE SOUTHEAST ROOM OF THE BUNGALOW.
THE     STENCILING          OF    THE     ing is cream colored. Below the
picture-
WALLS       AND     DECORATIONS           molding the wider of the two nasturtium
OF A LAKE SHORE BUNGALOW                  stencils was applied, two different
colors
                                          being used in the group of flowers,
rich
ADAPTED        FROM     A   CRAFTS-       mahogany for the large blossoms
and deep
MAN DESIGN: BY C. B. WHITE-               golden yellow, the true nasturtium
yellow,
HOUSE                                     for the buds. A   soft green defined
the
                                          leaves and stems. The stamens of
the
T      HE article on stenciling that ap-  flowers and the strokes indicating
the vein-
       peared in the issue of THE CRAFTS- ing of the leaves were applied
later.
--     MAN for January, 1913, served its    In the smaller room used as a
bedroom
       purpose in that it inspired the dec-  the walls and ceilings were
[painted the
oration by this means of an attractive one-  same color as the upper wall
above the
story bungalow. This comfortable home,    picture rail in the larger room,
the only
an adaptation of a Craftsman plan, is sit- touch of contrasting color being
in the
uated on the hilltop of an estate ranging stenciling, the same design as
that used in
twenty acres along the lake shore of St.  the larger room.
Paul, Minnesota. The situation makes its    For the four windows of these
two
own appeal; the flowers besides bloom in  rooms and the French doors opening
outo
brilliancy of color and purity of outline, the  the sleeping porch, plain,
scrim  curtains
result of freedom from disease.           were made, finished by hemstitching
two
  The four bedrooms and bathroom of the   inches wide and stenciled with
the narrow
bungalow claim at the moment
attention, since it was for their
walls that the writer originated
the stencil designs herein illus-
trated, the models for which
were the surrounding and fa-
vorite flowers.
  For the suite of two north-
facing rooms the nasturtium
designs w e r e chosen. The
larger of these rooms, the sit-
ting room, has a picture rail
five feet from the floor and be-
low this rail a background of
Japanese grass cloth, light gold-
en brown in tone. Above the
picture rail the wall is painted
with three matt-finished coats,
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ov gray rdaL1eI L laln ye uow,-a IRIS STENCIL DESIGN IN GREEN AND CREAM COLOR
WHICH WAS
neutral wood shade. The ceil- USED IN THE SOUTHWEST ROOM.
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