Our doors and windows : how to decorate them . Ill 11 --1 No. A SERVANTS stair-case is more than a luxury and should be provided in theP plan of every house. When there is none, as in the case of most of ourcity houses, it becomes more than ever necessary to screen the main stair-case. A simple transom of spindles or open fret-work, with a curtain hungbelow, will often be sufficient. The lower two steps should be turned around soas to make a platform, the balustrade of which will serve as the back for a hallseat (as shown in sketches 18 and 45). The basement stairs even in a greaterdegree
Our doors and windows : how to decorate them . Ill 11 --1 No. A SERVANTS stair-case is more than a luxury and should be provided in theP plan of every house. When there is none, as in the case of most of ourcity houses, it becomes more than ever necessary to screen the main stair-case. A simple transom of spindles or open fret-work, with a curtain hungbelow, will often be sufficient. The lower two steps should be turned around soas to make a platform, the balustrade of which will serve as the back for a hallseat (as shown in sketches 18 and 45). The basement stairs even in a greaterdegree require the same treatment. We have found a composition of turnedspindles and interlacing wood-work very effective in making the back-hall sightly,and with a little ingenuity a niche or shallow seat may be arranged which willredeem this generally uncared-for corner of the house.—Interior Decoration.
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