Our homes, and how to beautify them . owd of odds and ends fatal alike to harmony and proportion. Grace was sacrificed to display ; beauty was ignored in favour of mere elegance. There are few things more terrible than a showy drawing room. It is well meant, no doubt,but it over-shoots the mark and is a prolific cause of inartistic mischief In a vast apartment, with loft)- walls and noteworthy constructional features, liberality in the use of highly decorative details errs on virtues side; it is the medium-sized drawing room, and the insignificant drawing room, that are ruined by the injudicio
Our homes, and how to beautify them . owd of odds and ends fatal alike to harmony and proportion. Grace was sacrificed to display ; beauty was ignored in favour of mere elegance. There are few things more terrible than a showy drawing room. It is well meant, no doubt,but it over-shoots the mark and is a prolific cause of inartistic mischief In a vast apartment, with loft)- walls and noteworthy constructional features, liberality in the use of highly decorative details errs on virtues side; it is the medium-sized drawing room, and the insignificant drawing room, that are ruined by the injudicious endeavour of their owners to beautify them be)-ond their powers of endurance. \\hen you see a tiny little woman dressed to death, with an enormous picture-hat with feathers and a shopful of trimmings, and a rouged face, ) ou instinctively appreciate the absurdit)- of her indiscretion. It is just the same with the showy, small drawing room ; it is vulgar, crowded, jjainful to the artistic eye and to the nerves of the sensitive. 174. - w. sl?^?LI•,.
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