The Alaska citizen., 1915-01-11

 ARE COMP P[ETE
MARKUS RESIDENCE NOW HAS APP ARRANGE OF TYPICAL
 CALIFORNIA HOME.

One would think that away up in this neck of the woods where there are not plastered houses, that a job or interior decoration could not be done to compete with the beautiful bungalow effects on the Outside. But there is log cabin in Fairbanks in which the decorators have been working for the past two weeks. The interior has undergone a complete change and when you enter the par Tor and dining room, your thoughts of winter leave you entirely. The house referred to is that of Mir. and Mrs. George Markus on Fourth avenue
 Late this fall George discovered that his cellar needed repairs and that new floor would have to be put in the house. He also discovered that after this work was done. the walls would have 10 be repapered or renovated in some way. and that probably a beam would have to be put through the ceiling to stiffen the upstairs. In due time the eel lar was completed and the floors laid.
 The next thing was what to do with the walls. After one visit to Anderson Brothers X Nerland. the lot fell to Herman Anderson to see that George got properly fixed up. So Herman started to see what he was up against this time He found a good heater in the basement and a good warm house to work in. Naturally he liked this as. although it is a mild winter. decorators do not hang around the outside of a house any longer than possible. The meantime moved out.
 We'll after looking around a little bit the decorator began to zee visions of the beautiful frescced rooms be used to work at on the Outside. Here he thought he saw chance to get back at the old game. But George said he wanted 10 put a beam through the ceiling which would be an obstacle to decorating work. and that obstacle had to be over
 r''e. However t'e dennrat CTS ar tistic temperament had been aroused and refused to be downed He knew that it was useless to try to sleep until the design of those two rooms was settled in his mind. So out came paper and pencil and work pro gresSed until o'clock in the morn ing, when the design for the two prettiest rooms ever done in Alaska. vas complete.
 In the morning the design was shown to Mir. and Mrs. Markus and, as they were highly pleased with it, the work was commenced It was not job of paper hanging as all of the work is done on Cabot A Cloth. In the first place tre cloth was prepared and tinted and all the decorations painted on by hand. They are everlasting and never fade.
 Both parlor and dining room have beamed ceilings which are so much in vogue on the Outside now. The parlor ceiling is divided innto four panels. The main decoration is hand painted bamboo, Japanese style. entwined with vines and flowers The center of the panels are cream white with natural colored bamboo and Nile green styling, and green vines.
 EaCh wall in the paElOr is made in to a separate panel with bamboo lattice work from the floor up in each corner with natural flowers also growing up from the corners, making a complete dado around the room. The styling on the wall is of an olive color and the main wall a coffee color, with natural bamboo and green vines and morning glories.
 The dining room ceiling is also beamed and has four panels with vines of holly running through each panel alongside of a heavy band of gold and crimson. On the wall @ beautiful fruit border is paneled. consisting of apples, plums, grapes, etc. Five feet from the floor up in tNis room, is a plate rail under meath which is a heavy linowal with an enamel finish. The beams are finished in a dead velvet white while all the rest of the wood work is white enamel finish.
 On the whole the two rooms pres ent the appearance of true Cali fornia summer home. They make you forget that it is winter just outside the door. In fact the tone of the whole is so realistic that you can even see humming bird and humble bee sipping honey from the flowers.