| THERE are countless fascinating schemes for | | | | pretence at coolness, nothing is more satisfactory |
| arranging sunrooms. One, which we have recently | | | | or gay than scarlet geraniums; but if they are |
| seen near Philadelphia, was the result of enclosing | | | | used, care must be taken that they harmonize |
| a large piazza, projecting from an immense house | | | | with the color of the awnings and the chintz on |
| situated in the midst of lawns and groves.The | | | | the porch.Speaking of rail-boxes reminds us that in |
| walls are painted orange and striped with pale | | | | making over a small summer house and |
| yellow; the floors are covered with the new | | | | converting a cheap affair into one of some |
| variety of matting, which imitates tiles, and shows | | | | pretensions, remember that one of the most |
| large squares of color, blocked off by black. The | | | | telling points is the character of your porch railing. |
| chintzes used are in vivid orange, yellow and | | | | So at once remove the cheap one with its small, |
| green, in a stunning design; the wicker chairs are | | | | upright slats and the insignificant and frail top rail, |
| painted orange and black, and from the immense | | | | and have a solid porch railing (or porch fence) built |
| iridescent globes of electric light hang long, orange | | | | with broad, top rail.Then place all around porch, |
| silk tassels.Iron fountains, wonderful designs in | | | | resting on iron brackets, rail-flower boxes, the |
| black and gold, throw water over gold and silver | | | | tops of these level with the top of the rail, and |
| fish, or gay water plants; while, in black and gold | | | | paint the boxes the color of the house trimmings. |
| cages, vivid parrots and orange-colored canaries | | | | Filled with running vines and gay flowers, nothing |
| gleam through the bars. Iron vases of black and | | | | could be more charming.Window boxes make any |
| gold on tall pedestals, are filled with trailing ivy and | | | | house lovely and are a large part of that charm |
| bright colored plants. Along the walls are wicker | | | | which appeals to us, whether the house is a |
| sofas, painted orange and black, luxuriously | | | | mansion in Mayfair or a Bavarian farmhouse. |
| comfortable with down cushions covered, as are | | | | Americans are learning this.The window and |
| some of the chair cushions, in soft lemon, | | | | rail-boxes of a house look best when all are |
| sun-proofed twills.Here one finds card-tables, | | | | planted with the same variety of flowers.Having |
| tea-tables and smoking-tables, a writing-desk fully | | | | given a certain air of distinction to your porch |
| equipped, and at one end, a wardrobe of black | | | | railing, add another touch to the appearance of |
| and gold, hung with an assortment of silk wraps | | | | your small, remodeled house by having the |
| and "wooleys"for an un-provided and chilly guest, | | | | shutters hung from the top of the windows, |
| in early spring, when the steam heat is off and | | | | instead of from the sides.A charming variety of |
| the glass front open. | | | | awning or sun-shades, to keep the sun and glare |
| Even on a grey, winter day, this orange and gold | | | | out of rooms, is the old English idea of a |
| room seems flooded with sun, and gives one a | | | | straw-thatching, woven in and out until it makes a |
| distinctly cheerful sensation when entering it from | | | | broad, long mat which is suspended from the top |
| the house.Of course, if your porch-room is mainly | | | | of windows, on the outside of the house, being |
| for mid-summer use and your house in a warm | | | | held out and permanently in place, at the |
| region, then we commend instead of | | | | customary angle of awnings.We first saw this |
| sun-producing colors, cool tones of green, grey or | | | | picturesque kind of rustic awnings used on little |
| blue. If your porch floor is bad, cover it with | | | | cottages of a large estate in Vermont, cottages |
| dark-red linoleum and wax it. The effect is like a | | | | once owned and lived in by laborers, but bought |
| cool, tiled floor. On this you can use a few porch | | | | and put in comfortable condition to be used as |
| rugs.Black and white awnings or awnings in broad, | | | | overflow rooms for guests, in connection with the |
| green-and-white stripes, or plain green awnings, | | | | large family mansion (once the picturesque village |
| are deliciously cool-looking, and rail-boxes filled with | | | | inn).The art of making these straw awnings is not |
| green and white or blue and pale pink flowers are | | | | generally understood in America. In the case to |
| refreshing on a summer day.An Extension Roof in | | | | which we refer, one of the gardeners employed |
| New York Converted into a BalconyShows how | | | | on the estate, chanced to be an old Englishman |
| to utilize and make really very attractive an | | | | who had woven the straw window awnings for |
| extension roof, by converting it into a balcony.An | | | | farmhouses in his own country.The straw |
| awning of broad green and white stripes protect | | | | awnings, with window boxes planted with bright |
| this one in winter as well as summer, and by using | | | | geraniums and vines, make an inland cottage |
| artificial ivy, made of tin and painted to exactly | | | | delightfully picturesque and are practical, although |
| imitate nature, one gets, as you see, a charming | | | | the sea might destroy the straw awnings by high |
| effect.By the sea, where the air is bracing, and it | | | | winds.Melani Widjaja dedicates her time to |
| is not necessary to trick the senses with a | | | | makeover her clients project. |