Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-07-27
HOUSEHOLD
FURNISHING THE SUMMER CAMP.

The plan of camp or bungalow is
usually simple, being chiefly living
room and piazza bedrooms, and kit
chen, all on the ground floor. Some
camps have a second story for bed
rooms and some have central living
room and Kitchen with sleeping tents
or little cabins gathered around it.
A camp should harmonic with the
surroundings and is usually built OF
logs or Dark covered wood or stone
from the land itself. Some very at
tractlve ones are stone and wood
combined, the lichen-covered stones,
the weathered shingles and the soft
gray green or WOOD brown of the roo
forming beautiful and appropriate
color scheme. Simplicity should be
the keynote; the beauty of the sur
roundings must not be insulted by
hldeOus combinations of color and
jig saw carving. A camp can be an
addition to the landscape, but, sad to
say, it is more often an eyesore, and
1t behooves every one of US who may
be so fortunate as to build camp not
to allow il to be blot on our wonder
tul American scenery.
The hvlng-room of camp usually
stretches across the whole front and
is often used as dining-room as we'll.
There saould be large fireplace made
of stone or brick. Often the chief
chimney is placed in the center of the
camp with the rooms grouped around
it. The kitchen can be in an ell and
have the stove pipe carried through
a carefully protected space, but in
these days of tireless cookers and OIL
stoves and chatting dishes one is not
obliged to use the regular stove often.
The piazza should be furnished with
comfortable chairs, canvas ham
mock or two, table and plenty OF
cushions. A tea wagon will be found
a great convenience. The living room
needs large table and several small
er ones, desK, plenty of comfort
able chairs and cushions, broad sofa
or couch, good lamps, a mating or
other inexpensive rug, curtains Of
simple cotton, bookcases, a cupboard
for the china and table linen, and
books and magazines. The bedrooms
should have good beds, a dressing
table or bureau, chair or two and a
washstand and tin tub if there is no
bath broom. The curtains should be
of simple material, such as cheese
cloth or lowered cotton, and the rugs
may be inexpensive. There should be
as many sleeping porches as possible.
The walls are usually left unplas
tered, and the wood stained a soft
green or brown, or oiled and left to
turn dark with age. Very attractive
effects can be given with steneiIng.
Ii one wishes the walls more flushed,
the spaces between the stud ding may
be covered with bnrlap or a kind of
board that comes for the purpose,
and the beams stained to harmonize
The colors used in the furnishings
should be ricn but soft tones. and
cream, tan, yellow, brown, green, blue
green. soft blue and some red are
good to use; these coiors seem to tone
in with the woods that come SO close
to the door.
One camp need that is often over
looked is lanterns. One or two are
not enough; there should be as many
as there are people in the camp and
then few more, in case of accident.
Plenty of green branches should be
about the rooms, and boxes of mas
turtiums on the piazza railing and the
Window-sills add delightful touch.
The whole aim in furnishing a camp
should be to have it simple. homelike,
informal and charming, but the in
formality must never verge on tax
ing away ones privacy. One values
that as much at times in the woods as
one does in town. Nothing can be
more healthful or delightful than a
summer spent this way, and the sim
plicity of the life makes care drop
from US like Q ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Home Companion.