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Living Rooms |
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- Ceiling heights lower than their Victorian counterparts, contributing to the
horizontal emphasis established by the design of the exterior
- Focal point is invariably the fireplace
- Morris chairs (at the right)
- Matching wood stain on both furniture and woodwork
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- Glass-fronted bookcases flank the fireplace
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- Pair of small windows flanking the fireplace; windows sometimes have art-glass
panels, colored and leaded
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- Living room and dining room often open to each other, with a broad opening cased
in wood, with extra support provided on either side by two, short, squared columns
mounted on low walls, which may also contain built-in storage cabinets or bookcases.
- Living room: built-in windowseats provide extra storage inside, as well as handy
supplemental seating.
- Natural woodwork, including a coffered, box-beamed ceiling
- Paint colors: Living room /Dining room / Front hall: warm colors in harmony with
natural wood tones
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Dining Rooms |
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- Natural woodwork, including a coffered, box-beamed ceiling, not solid timbers
but thin boards rabbeted together to form a hollow shell. Available in catalogs from
the 1910s.
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- High wainscot surmounted by a plate rail and a broad frieze
- Wall coverings: conventional wallpaper; burlap; grasscloth; paper embossed and
printed to resemble cloth; metallic gold-bronze finishes
- Leaded-glass windows and potted plants
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- Plate rail and a broad frieze
- Wallpaper in panels using narrow paper borders as moldings
- Narrow frieze (sometimes stuccoed)
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- Dining room frieze coverings above typical high wainscot: wall coverings simulating
tapestries; simulated embossed and tooled leather; painting a wall covering such
as Anaglypta, a heavy embossed paper; painting a wall covering such as Lincrusta,
a paper-backed, linoleum-like material that was more deeply embossed
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- Art glass panels: in windows in front doors, in sidelights, in glass-fronted
bookcases, in glass-fronted sideboard
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Other Rooms
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- Bedroom wall coverings: wallpaper with large-scale florals with matching
borders; expensive, hand-printed Morris wallpapers
- Bedrooms: Paint colors: white or pale color schemes
- Sun porch: wicker furniture
- Breakfast nooks: Furnished with high-backed, built-in benches with a fixed
or folding table surface set between them.
- Bathroom: white rectangular ceramic tile laid horizontally to form a wainscot of about half the height
of the wall
- Bathroom: Small hexagonal floor tiles
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