Chapter I: The Development of the Modern House

II. SUITABILITY, SIMPLICITY AND PROPORTION
III. THE OLD WASHINGTON IRVING HOUSE
IV. THE LITTLE HOUSE OF MANY MIRRORS
V. THE TREATMENT OF WALLS
VI. THE EFFECTIVE USE OF COLOR
VII. OF DOORS, AND WINDOWS, AND CHINTZ
VIII. THE PROBLEM OF ARTIFICIAL LIGHT
IX. HALLS AND STAIRCASES
X. THE DRAWING-ROOM
XI. THE LIVING-ROOM
XII. SITTING-ROOM AND BOUDOIR
XIII. A LIGHT, GAY DINING-ROOM
XIV. THE BEDROOM
XV. THE DRESSING-ROOM AND THE BATH
XVI. THE SMALL APARTMENT
XVII. REPRODUCTIONS OF ANTIQUE FURNITURE AND OBJECTS OF ART
XVIII. THE ART OF TRELLIAGE
XIX. VILLA TRIANON
XX. NOTES ON MANY THINGS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Elsie de Wolfe (Frontispiece)
In this hall, simplicity, suitability and proportion are observed
Mennoyer drawings and old mirrors set in panelings
A portrait by Nattier inset above a fine old mantel
The Washington Irving house was delightfully rambling
A Washington Irving House bedroom
Miss Marbury's bedroom
The fore-court and entrance of the Fifty-fifth Street house
A painted wall broken into panels by narrow moldings
A wall paper of Elizabethan design with oak furniture
The scheme of this room grew from the jars on the mantel
A Louis Seize bedroom in rose and blue and cream
The writing corner of a chintz bedroom
Black chintz used in a dressing-room
Printed linen curtains over rose colored silk
Straight hangings of rose and yellow shot silk
Muslin glass curtains in the Washington Irving house
Here are many lighting fixtures harmoniously assembled in a
drawing-room
Detail of a fine old French fixture of hand wrought metal
Lighting fixtures inspired by Adam mirrors
The staircase in the Bayard Thayer house
The drawing-room should be intimate in spirit
The fine formality of well-placed paneling
The living-room in the C.W. Harkness house at Morristown, New Jersey
Miss Anne Morgan's Louis XVI boudoir
Miss Morgan's Louis XVI _lit de repos_
A Georgian dining-room in the William Iselin house
Mrs. Ogden Armour's Chinese paper screen
Mrs. James Warren Lane's painted dining-table
The private dining-room in the Colony Club
An old painted bed of the Louis XVI period
Miss Crocker's Louis XVI bed
A Colony Club bedroom
Mauve chintz in a dull green room
Mrs. Frederick Havemeyer's Chinoiserie chintz bed
Mrs. Payne Whitney's green feather chintz bed
My own bedroom is built around a Breton bed
Furniture painted with chintz designs
Miss Morgan's Louis XVI dressing-room
Miss Marbury's chintz-hung dressing-table
A corner of my own boudoir
Built-in bookshelves in a small room
Mrs. C.W. Harkness's cabinet for _objets d'art_
A banquette of the Louis XV period covered with needlework
A Chinese Chippendale sofa covered with chintz
The trellis room in the Colony Club
Mrs. Ormond G. Smith's trellis room at Center Island, New York
Looking over the _tapis vert_ to the trellis
A fine old console in the Villa Trianon
The broad terrace connects house and garden
A proper writing-table in the drawing-room
A cream-colored porcelain stove in a New York house
Mr. James Deering's wall fountain
Fountain in the trellis room of Mrs. Ormond G. Smith