Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-28

| every appearance of grain at all. in fact
had been obliterated.
The oak, it was explained, had been
treated with a solution of lead rubbed well
into the pores and then finished with a dull
stain only It is conceivable that an old
fashioned woman might prefer the natural
oak. New-fashioned housekeepers, though,
rave over the oak in its new dress and will
have no otherE
In another room, a dining room, the walls
to a height of seven and a half feet were
lined with oak of a duh gray, showing
little or no grain and as smooth as wall
paper. Across the bottom was a seven
inch Dashboard and a few inches from the
top the surface was ornamented with me-
dallons, perhaps a little more than three
inches in diameter, placed about a foot
apart These were carved in the wood.
It was the color of the wood, though,
which most attracted.
wainscOting Dining Rooms.
A secord dining room was wainscoted
to within three feet of the ceiling with
chestnut wood of a drab or putty color,
the conspicuous black brown large grain
of the wood showing up in a MORE antique
effect, describing an inverted V. This was
done by piecing the panels down the center
and cutting the wood on the bias, matching
the grain as perfectly where the halves
Joined as a dressmaker would match the
stripes in a silk gown In this room the
same effect was carried out in the heavy
mantel, the door and the window panels.
Red mahogany, treated to accentuate the
warmer tints, was the feature in third
dining room. There was no wainscoting
here. The wood was applied in a base
board ten inches deep in a fifteen-inch
cornice and frieze, In a narrow molding,
dividing the room into an upper and a
lower section of one-third and two-thirds,
the lower wall being treated plainly, the
upper in conventional figure design
All the woodwork in the room, including
the mantel, was Of red mahogany, and the
novel features were the tint of the wood
and the cornice. In all the rooms mem
toned the wood cornice and frieze took the
place of a beamed ceiling and this, the
decorator declared, was a variation which
is now finding much favor in spite of the
fact that it is in direct contrast to the
fashion taken up a few years ago of omit
ting the wooden NEEDING near the ceiling.
In the Dining Room.
In some Of the smartest dining rooms
and also in some of the less expensive a
twenty inches wide is now an admired
feature. the ceiling being plain. In a room
of this type finished the other day for a
New Yorker and done In gray-toned oak
and a German renaissance design a wood
cornice of eight inches was joined to a
twelve-inch wood frieze, which, like the
wainscoting rising to a height of six feet,
the capitals Of the doors and windows and
the great caryatides uphOlding the high
mantel was heavily carved in a scroll and
grape design.
In a colonial dining room designed for
the country house Of a New Yorker a cor
nice and frieze fifteen inches wide Of white
enameled wood topped plain delft blue
burlap covered space which in turn topped
a seven-foOt high wainscoting of white
enameled wood. There may be a question
as to the gracefulness OF the wooden cor
nice but no difference Of opinion, the deco
rator thought as to its good style for the
time being.
Dull finished walnut, quite unlike the
walnut Of our grdndmother's day, is in
great demand for lofty foyer halls where
dark effects are desired, its gloom being
relieved with touches Of gold leaf on CAPT
tails and columns.
But II Is in the drawing room perhaps
that the growing popularity OF wood and
vagaIies OF color and most noticeable. In
teriors solely Of wood. excepting the cell
ing are more and more asked for. and en-