Another illustration shows the writing-corner of the bedroom which leads into this dressing-room.  The walls and the rose-red carpet are the same in both rooms, as you see.  This bedroom depends absolutely on the rose and blue chintz for its decoration.  There is a quaint bed painted a pale gray, with rose-red taffeta coverlet.  The bed curtains are of the chintz lined with the rose-red silk.  There are several white-enamel chairs upholstered with the chintz, and there is a comfortable French couch with a kidney table of mahogany beside it.  The corner of the room shown in the illustration is the most convenient writing-place.  The desk is placed at right angles to the wall between the two windows.  The small furnishings of the writing-desk repeat the queer blues and the rose-red of the chintz.  A very comfortable stool with a cushion of old velvet is an added convenience.

The chintz curtains at the windows hang in straight, full folds.  A flat valance, cut the length of the design of the chintz, furnishes the top of the two windows.  Some windows do not need these valances, but these windows are very high and need the connecting line of color.  The long curtains are lined with the rose-red silk, which also shows in a narrow piping around the edges.

[Illustration:  MUSLIN GLASS CURTAINS IN THE WASHINGTON IRVING HOUSE]

The other two color illustrations are of the most popular room I have done, a bedroom and sitting room combined.  Everyone likes the color plan of soft greens, mauve and lavender.  There is a large day bed of painted wood, with mattress, springs and cushions covered with a chintz of mauve ground and gay birds.  The rug is a self-toned rug of very soft green, and the walls are tinted with the palest of greens.  The woodwork is white, and the furniture is painted a greenish-gray that is just a little deeper than pearl.  A darker green line of paint outlines all the furniture, which is further decorated with prim little garlands of flowers painted in dull rose, blue, yellow and green.

The mauve chintz is used for the curtains, and for the huge armchair and one or two painted chairs.  There is a little footstool covered with brocaded violet velvet, with just a thread of green showing on the background.  The lighting fixtures are of carved wood, painted in soft colors to match the garlands on the furniture, with shirred shades of lavender silk.  Two lamps made of quaint old green jars with lavender decorations have shirred shades of the same silk.  One of these lamps is used on the writing-table and the other on the little chest of drawers.

This little chest of drawers, by the way, is about the simplest piece of furniture I can think of, for any girl who can use her brushes at all.  An ordinary chest of drawers should be given several coats of paint—­pale yellow, green or blue, as may be preferred.  Then a thin stripe of a darker tone should be painted on it.  This should be outlined in pencil and then painted with a deeper tone of green color; for instance, an orange or brown stripe should be used on pale yellow, and dark green or blue on the pale green.