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Next there will be the drawing room to furnish, then the library, the
dining room and pantry, not forgetting the kitchen and laundry. Use two
pages for each room, leaving several between the different rooms, so
that the book shall not be too full at the front and empty at the back.
If it does not close easily remove some of the blank pages. Cut out the
different pieces of furniture as carefully as possible, paste them in as
neatly as you can, and you will have a book house to be proud of.
Flowered papers will be the best for the bedrooms, or plain wall papers
in light colours; and with brass bedsteads, pretty little dressing
tables and curtains made of thin white tissue paper (which looks so like
white muslin), they will be as dainty as can be. Now and then through
the book it is interesting to have a page with just a bay window and a
broad window seat with cushions and pillows--as if it were a part of a
long hall. Hang curtains of coloured or figured paper in front of it so
that they will have to be lifted if anyone wants to peep in. When you
have finished the bathroom, playroom, maids' rooms and attic there will
still be the piazza, the garden, the stables and the golf course
(covering several pages), to arrange. If you have a paint box and can
colour tastefully you will be able to make your book house even more
attractive than it is already.
[Illustration: Planning a book house]
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=Materials Required:= A pasteboard box, about 3 by 6
inches,
Some old white pasteboard boxes
with a glossy finish,
A box of paints,
3 unused postal cards,
A tube of paste,
Pen and ink,
Scissors.
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