Bird's-Eye Maple is light in color and is usually obtained in veneers. It makes handsome furniture for bedrooms, but is not now used as much as in the past. It will darken in color with age, and after a piece has been used a while the color is very difficult to match. The lower priced bird's-eye maple furniture has plain maple posts with bird's-eye maple veneer panels and cross-banded veneers.

White, ivory and French gray enameled furniture is very tasteful, but can not be recommended unless purchased through a dealer who handles high-class goods, as it would be folly to buy anything but the very best of such furniture. It requires a very large department and a detailed process to develop a finely finished piece of enameled goods. consequently a good quality is fairly expensive Unless one purchases the enameled ware that is produced by the very best of manufacture ers, who are very particular about the material Used in the furniture, one might get hold of goods that are enameled over knots and other blemishes in the woods, and which might not be discovered for some time.

The use of gold furniture is recorded in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, and is especially applicable in the present day for the refined artistic furnishing of a modern drawing-room, music room, or reception room. The laying of real gold leaf on furniture is, in most respects, a secret process, and hut few craftsmen in this country understand the art.