How to be your own decorator

Foreword

To make the house an attractive and comfortable place in which to live is a woman’s job. To some women it comes very easily; to others, though they have the same desire, it is difficult to accomplish.

To help those seeking suggestions, Good Housekeeping Studio was established. In this Studio we build each month, with the cooperation of American manufacturers, a room or group of rooms—vwalls, floors, doors, windows, fireplace—actual rooms. Then we paint, panel or paper them and furnish them with the products from the fine American manufacturers. All this we do to present the facts of modern decorating rather than the theory, with the hope that our work—-which has to us all the joy of play —may hold some suggestion, or some help which will give the American house or apartment an added charm, beauty and livableness.

The few simple principles which have guided us in making The Studio rooms I pass on to you in this book. They are the result of our experience in the actual work in which our consultant architect and the decorators on the staff each have contributed much. Every picture shown is one we have made in The Studio—and made for you.

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DEDICATED

TO EVERY WOMAN WHO IS SEEKING SUGGESTIONS TO MAKE HER HOME MORE ATTRACTIVE