“Since it is connected with this room by so wide an opening, when the doors are drawn back,” said her aunt, “it seems to me as if it ought to be in harmony with the coloring here.”
They all agreed with this idea.
“I suggest,” said Margaret, “that the whole room might be a little darker than this room, although decorated with the same colors.”
Miss Graham again approved this.
“It has the morning sun,” said Dorothy, “and at night through most of the year the gas is lighted at dinner time so it isn’t necessary to have it so bright as the other room.”
“Then why not have everything the same, except just a little deeper in tone,” said Ethel Blue. “Have the wood-work a trifle darker and find some material for the walls or have them color-washed a few shades darker than the pongee. The floor is a little darker than this anyway and one of the darker blue Chinese rugs will be lovely on it.”
“Mother’s china is blue Canton,” said Dorothy. “That will give blue touch that will harmonize with the rugs.”
They were all pleased with their decisions and were greatly pleased when Miss Graham approved their wisdom.
The electricians had put in the electric fixtures and they noticed that the dining room side lights of both the dining room and drawing room looked like sconces; that there was a glowing bowl of light in the ceiling above the dinner table; and that the half concealed lights were to give a pleasant radiance in the larger room, while plugs around the wall permitted the use of electric lamps for reading or sewing at many different points.
“How is this little reception room to be done, Mrs. Smith?” asked James as he roamed into a small room just beside the front door.