Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-14
How to Get Harmony
in Home Decoration
Experts of 0mshs's Big Furniture
Store Give Suggestions for Sc
curing Best Results.

How seldom one sees a room that Is
properly arranged TO show off its beau
ties!' remarked a prominent Omaha man
the other day as he was passing through
the long rows Of period furniture in one OF
the local stores
This man had the situation OF home
furnishing and home-decorating sized UP
in the right way. Few people know how
to get their furniture wall paper, pictures
and decorations to match up so that the
best results will be obtained Years of ex-
perience In the decorating OF Omaha homes
have given Miller, Stewart & Beaton a
name for getting harmony and beauty in
the furnishing Of the home.
The men in the decorating department
OF this large store have been engaged in
the art Of designing decoration plans so
long that they now have become experts
and are recognized as among the leading
decorators of the west.
This department of the Miller, Stewart
Beaton store has one man who will
take charge Of the entire furnishing Of the
home. For example, he will select the
furniture, carpets, pictures, plate-rail, brio
a-brac, and decorations and give perfect
harmony to all the surroundings.
The employees under this expert are thor
ougly versed in the decorative art They
will tell you what colors should go I'm a
particular room-dark. light or large rooms.
They will show you which are the best
patterns, best size of pictures, best paint
ings. and best decorations for any kind Of
room.
This department makes paintings for Gus
toners showing every part OF the room
in detail, with various kinds Of furniture.
They make these drawings with rooms hav-
ing various kinds Of furniture, rugs and
decorations. These paintings cost the firm
$50 and 16O
Docs the average person know whether
Elizabethan furniture can be mixed with
Jacobean, Jacobean with walnut or mar
querterie of the Queen Anne period. and
yet harmony kept in the room. These ex-
perts OF the Miller, Stewart a. Beaton
decorating department will tell you that
this can be done? They will prove to YOU
by their beautiful paintings that harmony
can be maintained through the use of
various other kinds of furniture. -.~s
Lovers of beautiful home will learn here
that 1t is not always best to have furniture
in the same room OF one wood only Not
many people know this truth. Where the
furniture is mainly satinwood it is. desir-
able to have a few pieces of Chippendale
in mahogany. This relieves the monotony
Of the one wood.
In a room Of satinwood il is we'll to
have the walls painted pale green or a
warm pearly gray and hung with oval
and round classical prints. Colored en-
cravings also are in keeping with a satin
wood room and add to the harmony of the
decorations. Persian rugs and Oriental
china look beautiful In any ROOM
1t is such facts as these that the experts
of the Miller, Stewart & Beaton decorating
department win make known to you. They
will give you the hints which will enable
you to have one of the beautiful homes
that you have longed for many, many
months.
The services OF these men are at the dis
posal Of prospective purchasers free Of
charge There is no obligation to buy on the
part of any one receiving suggestions from
these men.