Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-01
D EAL ED ROOMS
CLEVER WORK OF AN UPSTAIRS
ARCHITECT.
Woman Only Knows Where Closets
or NOOks Should Be Placed
Very Up to Date.
Written for The Evening Star.


The ideal bed room is achieved at last,
and with due respect to the demands of
beauty and hygiene and genuine comfort.
There is a woman in New York who has
brought about the happy condition by first
studying at home and abroad to perfect her
genius for the decoration of sleeping apart
ments only. No other quarter of a house
will she undertake or advise upon, and one
of the first persons to recognize and employ
her genius was the master of that beautiful
Roman palace by the sea that washes the
Newport cliffs.
Seven of the sleeping chambers were
turned over to her for decoration and fol-
lowing her usual method, she drew out
number Of designs for the furnishing OF
every room and submitted them for consid-
Grafton. With every design went an exact
estimate of the cost of all the fittings, and
careful suggestions as to ventilation, the
virtues of special bedding materials the
values of particular coors and floor COW
erings for no detail that can contribute to
health and comfort is overlooked in her eS-
innate. Every one of the seven rooms was
treated, not only in distinct and thorough
!y original fashion, but with a true artists
eye to harmony after the best Italian mod
els So pleased was the owner of the white
marble villa that he gave his upstairs ar
chitect," as she calls herself jokingly, carte
blanche, and she did his confidence and
credit.
Her Method.
Every one Of her bed rooms proved q trt-
unph Of artistic beauty and luxurious ease,
and when asked how she managed it, she
smilingly replied that When the second
floor Of the Italian villa was given me to
adorn l got down my collection Of pictures
of sleeping rooms in Italian palaces and
from them 1 worked up my designs Here
is one taken direct from a famous painting.
Ruskin said it was an ideal room and If Is
especially for a summer home. The floor is
bare, with rugs, the ventilation quite per-
feet by reason of the quaint round win
dcws. high in the wall, and the coloring I
copied direct from the painting. A perfect
Italian room, but when you get in that
quaint bed 1t Is made of the finest hair on
the best springs No hard. little. medieval
couch that and in the wainscot about the
walls are glorious cupboards for hats
gowns at full length, shoe boxes and even
the dafntfest medicine chest
On the wall by the bed hangs an old
bronze sconce for candle, but out of the
tip of that candle comes a wee electric buIh
Tor a night light or reading lamp and even
the plants I've put in the window as they
are quite as much for health as for orna-
ment. In short, you see, have an Italian
bed room supplied with every latest Ameri.
can appliance for comfort and when / get
an English house of a certain period l keen
In touch with the architecture, but intro
duce all the improvements of our home
genius
Extremely Modern.
When my italian rooms were done the
orders came in fast and furious, and now l
am as busy bee, for not only try to
make my decorative work beautiful, but
becoming WELL AS rule get rid of as
much unnecessary drapery as possible, for
hygiene's sake. but never decorate in col
ors that will create a hard or ugly atmos-
phere. Here is quite an ideal modern bed
room done in green and white and gold 1t
is designed for young lady who is not
very strong and spends good deal Of time
in bed.
You see l always consider the occupant
Of room If I can, and as she is often in