New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-03
COUNTRY HOUSES.
NOW To FURNISH THEM.

one of general interest The larger part OF FURNITURE
sold IN the city at this season Is sent 10 inc country
home The furnishing of a country cottage may ranso
from $500 to 0O0 though 1t Is the custom oi .o
most refined people to furnish their cottages Simply
few thousand dollars will suffice for the furnishing
of a lovely country home the wealthy owner reserv-
ing his magnificent furniture for his city residehco
It Is the parvenue that affects the cottage OF gen
tty with pride that apes humility orF
entail styles and pieces of Japanese furniture arc
IN demand for country homes this season Inc ngh'
French styles of furniture will also DO in special de-
mand. White and gold sets and tinted sets OF SKY
blue pale green, pink cream color are chosen
for parlors bedrooms breakfast rooms or dining
rooms Carpets are usually dispensed with during
the summer; where the floor is not finished for rugs
It Is covered with matings. Draperies In these sum-
mer houses should DO light, only such as Will mellow
the light and not keep out the pure drafts OF fresn
air. All cumbrous draperies out Of place and can
only lurking spots for moths. The gorgeous
ness that IS in keeping with the city drawing-room
or the out-oft town mansion intended for occupancy
all the year round is vulgar 0stentaon In cottage
occupied but few months
While mahogany IS the favortte wood in general
in furnishing the parlor where any wood Is dis
played, there is fancy for overstufed Turkish
styles upholstered in mass Of soft cushions and
showing wood. Silk brocatees and damask silks and
French cretonnes are all used for upholstery Many
lounges Of which are particularly comfortable and
luxurious when softly cushioned. These Oriental
lounges may be purchased at prices ranging from S12
to 800 Tho cushions are always movable and may
be made at homo and tied on tho lounge. These
lounges are certainly pretter than the rattan lounges
pretty the latter always There are also chairs
in bamboo, which range In price from 80 to 3d. Com
plcte paror sets Of rattan mako exceedingly grace
full furniture upholstered with movable cushions COW
cred with India silks cretonnes and these sets pos
the advantage Of being very cheap, pretty rat
tan chair without cushions selling low as $5 Three
pieces usually form the parlor set, sofa and two
chairs of different height Tho furniture Is then
completed by reception chair, which Is usually in
French style, Of gllded ebonixed wood, with rush
bottom seat which may be gilded or painted, and IS
sometimes furnished with soft, movable cushion at
the seat, tied UP with fancy ribbon. Hanging cabi-
nets mantel cabinets which may display any brica-
brac treasures gathered in the meadow or on the
seashore, help TO furnish the room. Etchings and
water colors should decorate the walls leaving enough
bare spaces to give relief to the eye, nothing is
moro objectionable in a summer room than crowded
appearance
Some exceedingly beautiful rooms have recently
been furnished in white and gold upholstered with
silk brocades striped with garands Of flowers. The
blue and gray cotton rugs which are nov imported
from Japan are so dyed that they arc guaranteed
not to fade beneath the strongest sunlight. They
are light that any dust may be readily removed
from them by shaking, and they cooler than any
woollen rug. They range In size from 3x6 feet which
sold for from So up, to ax12 feet, at s3s. En-
broidercd hangings Of Turkish silk for window
tans and portieres range In price from "a to 80 so
pair, and known Aleppo curtains. There IS
nothing prettier for paror curtains than tambOured
muslins some dainty curtain Of embroidered mus
lin, muslin and lace. In rooms which require
color to brighten them curtains Of India silk in bright
Or rel had Or ara
preferred.
Antique oak IS favorte wood for dining room
furniture, the style of which varies little. The
dining room chair Of the has high back, and
is upholstered with plain, heavy leather or finished
with rush scat The back is all OF wood, open In
old fashioned spindle style formed of succession
of wavy Stats. The diningro room table IS low, with
heavy legs slightly carved and finished with claw
feet Most of the new dining tables arranged
that they do not show any mechanism when opened.
Bullets may be elaborate simple the pur-
chaser desires. They have become essential piece
of dining room furniture. They fDishd with
beveed glasses. The haldsomest Bullets
made with tops Of hardwood rather than with mar
BILE, and always covered with long, embroidered
linen scarf little open cabinet with glass
sides framed In wood brass charming receptacle
for the display Of any rare china which the housewife
may possess. lounge, over which an inexpensive
Turkish rug is carelessly thrown, Is acceptable
piece Of furniture In whore there separate
smoking room provided, and the dining room IS used
as after-dnner lounglug and smoking ROOM Rugs
in effective coors suitable for this purpose may be
purchased for $40 and upward
Little Oriental tables of teak wood, which can hold
a large fat for flowers or which may be utilized
pedestals, sold for $40 25 upward Screens
exceedingly useful pieces of furniture. Genuine
Japanese screens in four folds, four and half feet
high, begin in price at 81 rs. Handsome screens
ndia I'm franz
for piazzas
Enameed bedroom sets in pale pink blue or
white with gold in demand for summer houses.
Many ladies' furnishing their cottages entirely in
this style, while Others prefer brass bedsteads, with
the remainder of the furniture in enamelled tint The
excellent brass bedsteads long in use in English
houses are becoming very popular in this country,
and the importation Of genuine English bedsteads,
which better article and retailed at a lower
price than American manufacturers afford to make
them at has tended to make them popular. These
bedsteads always finished with lacquer, which
prevents their furnishing. The American manufacl-
urer has not yet learned the secret of this lacquer
nsh and the American bodstead begins to scale
off, and often is shabby enough to require reinishing
in four or five years process which costs about 50.
Tho lacquer the English brass bestcad lasts with
care double this time. genuine English brass bed
stead retas for $50 for the planest single style to
$50 for the planest double STYLE the American bed
stead in the styles cannot DO sold for less than
one-thlrd more, $50 and $40
The Duchess dressing table IL upholstered In India
silk, chintz or In Of the lovely japanese cot
ton grapes in blue and white, which the exact
color of old blue and white Canton porcelain and do
not lose their crinkle In washing. The same material
may be used to drape the canopy OF the bed or TO
form the simple sash window curtains, which all
the drapcres required in the bedroom of a summer
house. A pretty bamboo rattan lounge, with
movable cushions should be provided in every sum
mer bedroom for the afternoon siesta 1t is invara-
table IS an inexpensive and very convenient addition.
Sets Of brdseye maple trimmed in bamboo style are
less expensive than formerly. single rug spread
the mating before the bed, Japanese cotton rug,
or little fox skin IS to be preferred to any carpeng
In the bedroom
There has been an immense Improvement in mat
tings the last hafdozen years The best mattings
are now woven seamless, or without Jennings every
few yards as formerly. These seamless mattings are
imported In natural straw color, dark blue, terra