Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-13
CHAS. SHIVERICK & CO.,
Special March Furniture Sale. 18th and Douglas SITS.
CLEvELAND,s NEW HOME.
Decorations and Treasures in thu
Princeton House.

Decorations and Treasures in the
Princeton House.
The Cleveland home in Princeton, N. j.,
has been in the hands of painters, paper
hangers plasterers and plumbers for weeks.
Much has been done on the interior, says the
New York Herald, and considerable remains
to be done, although the house has been oc-
cupied by Mrs. Cleveland and the children
for several days. The mansion has been re-
decorated and the walls rehung from
cellar to garnet. Light and cheer
full tints prevail. The woodwork has
not been changed. 1t is all in the colonial
fashion and of good design, marked by a
happy simplicity of detail. The old-fashioned
high ceilings are relieved by heavy and es-
pecially effective mouldings, which were put
in when the house was built. The wood
work of the entire house is. painted colonial
white.
The house is built with a wide hall down
the middle of it, with rooms on either side.
The hall has a panelled wainscoting five feet
high. Above this the tinting of the walls,
an unusual shade of Nile green, remains.
The stairs have a walnut rail, supported by
white rods. The landing half way up is in
a colonial style, too admirably proportional
ever to grow tiresome, and on it is to stand
a real grandfather's clock.
To the right of the hall is the reception
room. The room has a southeast exposure
and is made still SUMMER in effect by the
walls, which are Of a soft, warm tone Of
golden yellow, with panels of paper In a
colonial design, surrounded by the plain yell
low tint.
The mantel is of wool, very simple, and
painted white. All of the mantels in the
house, with two exceptions, are of wood. The
two exceptions are of marble, one white and
one dark. They are old fashioned, but so
thoroughly in harmony with the house
scheme that Mrs. Cleveland ordered them not
to be disturbed.
Every room in the house has its fireplace,
and they are fireplGces meant for use, too,
for while the house Is heated by a furnace
the ceilings are so high and the rooms so
large that open fires will be welcome. Mrs.
Cleveland, moreover, Is fond Of the sight or
a blazing, open fire.
The dining room is back of the reception
room. The walls are papered In imitation of
tapestry, in rich but dull tones of brown,
blue and green. They are dark. but by no
means somber, and form an admirable back
ground for the white and eXquIsitely APP
pointed table, which should be the focal
point of a dining room on a feast day.
The great library, which Will be the sit
ting room of the family, is opposite the draw
ing room on the west side Of the hall. Low
book shelves, painted white, extend about
three sides of the room. The windows are
hung with curtains of Pompeiian red silk, a
color which is repeated, or rather suggested,
in the paper of the walls, on which an olive
green and d pale yellow combine with the
red. Pompeiian red is a ~favorite color with
Mrs. Cleveland. OF a decided and strong
personality, she prefers strong and simple
colors. she has no liking for ~lifeless, neu-
trail tints, the negat!ons OF color, in either
dress or furnishings.
Tho bedrooms of the house are on the sec
ond and third floors. Mrs. Cleveland's own
room is In the delft %colors, with blue and
white paper, blue and white tiles about the
CRATE, and a blue and white bath room with
a tiled floor and a porcelain tub opens on 1t.
This bedroom has a genuine old four poster
bed, canopy and all, In mahogany. Another
bedroom looks like a fairy bower, brlmful
of June Pink roses Chamber ever the walls
and lose themselves under the Dinks and
green of the friezes. a green and white
bathroom belongs equally TO this dainty
room, and to another chamber on whose
walls yellow roses with green leaves riot,
On the third floor is the largest room In
the house. 1t Is the nursery, and Is papered
In the j%olliest nursery paper that the
eyes Of even such fortunate babies as ths
little Cleveland girls ever held. All the
fayorite heroes and heroines from nursery
rhymes and fairy tales hold carnival on the
walls. The rooms for the nurses arc on
the third floor, near the nursery.
The four poster bed in the blue and white
bedroom is by no means the only piece OF
old mahogany in the house. In fact' an the
furniture is antique, Mrs. Cleveland ~ q
good fudge of mahogany. and has been col
Letting for YEARS. She has picked up" de-
sirable pieces in Massachusetts during her
Gray Gables summer and has made many
purchases in the antique shops of New York,
Philadelphia and Washington.
Some of her furniture has been bought by
her direction, at the auction sales by means
of which old white house furniture is dis
posed Of, so that she will have With her
several souvenirs OF her occupancy OF the
executive mansion. Friends all over the
country have acted as her agents In buying
interesting pieces OF old mahogany for her,
till she has one OF the finest private collec-
tions Of colonial furniture in the country.
She has beds and bureaus, with rounding
fronts, corner 0upboarls with latticed fronts,