The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-30
DINING ROOM IN FLAT
: is MADE ATTRACTIVE.
In Spite of Cramped Quarters and Conventional Rooms
One Woman Succeeds In Furnishing Her Room in
Manner That Attracts Attention-Some of the Principal
Features. .-- 49,

It is usually a difficult problem to
make. the furnishings of the average
city flat anything but stereotyped, for
the builder plans just where every
necessary piece of furniture should go
and the woman who wishes to express
her own individuality in her home is
sometimes at her wits end
A dining room in a fiat in a western
city has attracted SO much attention
of it may help out some other woman
who must make a home in a city fiat.
This dining room has a southern ex-
posture with large bay window thru
which the sun shines all day. The fat
Is in the third story, so garden is
impossible, but long boxes outside the
three windows are filed with nodding
nasturtiums, and are always blaze
of color, beginning with pale corn and
yellows and on into the rich velvety
browns. ~ -.
California Redwood.
The woodwork of the room is Cali
fornia redwood, the silky texture Of
which has been greatly enhanced by
a stain and then a wax finish, which
orange and golden brown. There is a
plate shelf two and one-half feet be-
low the picture molding, and this shelf
caps a succession of plain panels about
one and one-half feet wide, which ex-
tends around one side, and between
the windows of the bay and between
the two doors at the opposite end of
the room. On the western side of the
room, which is opposite the plain pam
elcd one, and which is the long side
of the room, is coal CRATE Of tan
ii
china. closets on either side of the
crate, running out even with it and
extending up the same height as the
plate shelf Extending up to the pic
ture molding is a soft orange-colored
frieze, on which a flock of white storks
with black legs and yellow beaks are
flying. The ceiling is rich cream color.
Unusual Furnishings.
The floor is stained and waxed and
is several shades deeper than the. side
walls. 1t isGall covered but narrow
strip, around the sides by a stunning
rug, of oriental design, in shades Of
brown, yellow, orange, black, and quite
a little blue
The two doors to this room, which
have three panels Of the wood between
and a corresponding width of shelf
have three of the cross-wise panels fol-
the lower portion and six small squares
Of yellow glass above. The hard ware
such as locks, knobs and fittings, are
Of copper.
The dining-room table is of the
craftsman sort, a design which might
have been seen in the California build
ing at the St. Louis fair. The top is
10 solid piece Of curly redwood, pol
ishcd and Waxed till it closely rivals
mahogany, and is more beautiful ii
color and silky texture. The seats fol
this table are sort Of stool or small
bench, a design also seen with the ia
bic at the fair. One is strongly re
minded Of the old missions when look
ing at this table and it's odd little seats
Instead Of the usual linen cloth, the
mistress of the house uses one long
runner thru the center Of the table
and two shorter ones across the width
These are, OF course, gray hOmespu1
linen, hemstitched all arOund.+ land. hav
ing embroidered down the left side eacl
end just inside the hemstitching il
Chinese characters the family name il
dull blue cotton. The napkins are O.
the same material and marked the same
except the letters are smaller.
The china used in this dining room
is blue and white Imari ware, man,
fine specimens Of which decorate tn
plate shelf, with here and there vel
low or brown pitcher or Jug covered
with brown rattan basket work, s.
much used by Chinese and Japanes
pOtters. Odd pieces of copper are ais,
seen and blend exquisitely with the col
oring Of the room.