216 FURNISHING COSTS AND BUDGETS

LOW-MEDIUM COST FURNITURE

Considerable variety is possible In the low-medium cost furni-
ture class, as both cottage and Modern styles are available at this
price. Oak, pine, pecan, hickory, maple, gum, and wicker furni-
ture is manufactured in large enough quantities to make it reason-
able in price. The most important requisite of low-medium cost
furniture is that it should not pretend to be expensive furniture by
imitating either the costly woods or the costly processes such as
carving. The following paragraphs name some types of furniture
procurable in the low-medium price range.

Early American, also known as Pilgrim Colonial, is a popular
and fairly inexpensive traditional furniture used in the United
States. See page 104. Adaptations and reproductions of the orig-
inal designs, usually made of maple, are generally available,

English Provincial style furniture, often in gray oak, is usually
available in the department stores. Some pieces may be combined
with Early American. This English furniture suggests boys' rooms
or breakfast rooms,

Pennsylvania German reproductions are sometimes available for
cottages or apartments in which simplicity is the keynote. How-
ever, it is well to combine this furniture with other cottage types.
See page 103. Sometimes genuine original pieces are procurable.

Spanish Colonial furniture is the natural choice for a home of
the Spanish derivation in the Southwest. Care should be taken
to find good, simple articles, for some are exaggerated in style.
American and Mexican Indian pieces are appropriate with this oak
furniture. See page 106*

Bamboo and wicker furniture of good design are usually pro-
curable, and they add interest to groups of wood furniture. See
pages 173, 226, 240, and 262.

Modern furniture of good design is available in this price range.
It can be manufactured economically because of its simple lines
and planes. For this reason the United States Resettlement Ad-
ministration used Modern furnitufe in many of the houses which
it built for families in the low-medium income class. Modern de-
signs are suitable for plastic furniture which is light and strong.

Non~period furniture includes simple, straight-line sofas and easy*
chairs usable with nearly all types of furnishings.