AS will have been seen, the plan of this volume is cumu-lative; the aim has been to develop gradually, and first to give by the examples of furnishing presented a firm basis of clear understanding of general principles and practice. This knowledge gained, we now proceed further in the evolution of the home by this method of modern furnishing.

There are several interesting ways in which we may "branch out".

I. Where the house is owned by the occupant architectural improvements are worth consideration.

II. Decorative effect in either the house or apartment may be increased by wall-treatments - simple or otherwise.

III. Development may be secured by the use of more unusual or more expensive textiles.

IV. More colourful or more expensive furniture may be employed.

V. Where the premises to be treated are of larger scope we may provide for interesting rooms other than the strictly necessary ones so far considered.

VI. Changes may be made in the direction either of quieter or more novel effects through the degree of colour-intensity chosen. The tones so far provided for are of medium intensity; such as those that appear in Plate 2. It is not the specific colours selected so much as the degree of those colours that renders decoration brilliant or otherwise. This is quickly illustrated: if we use in a room the normal, primitive hues of violet, orange, and emerald green, we obtain the almost violent colouring employed by some modern decorators: if for these we substitute such tones as appear in the Frontispiece, or plum, burnt orange, and a soft green containing more yellow than blue, we then have an exquisite colour-scheme both rich and quiet - yet the same triad has been chosen in each case.