Our homes, and how to beautify them . FIG. 44. TREATMENT IN WHITE ENAMELLED WOOD. heavily framed mirror, the chimney-piece was lowered, and instead of beingdesigned by the architect as a structural part of the room, was made and soldwith the grate, and was chosen more to suit the individual taste of the purchaser,than with e\-en a remote reference to the style or purpose of the room. Of lateyears, there has been such a marked improvement in the designs of these fitmentmantel-pieces that what at first threatened to be an evil cannot fairly be regarded OUR HOMES,. in such light any we
Our homes, and how to beautify them . FIG. 44. TREATMENT IN WHITE ENAMELLED WOOD. heavily framed mirror, the chimney-piece was lowered, and instead of beingdesigned by the architect as a structural part of the room, was made and soldwith the grate, and was chosen more to suit the individual taste of the purchaser,than with e\-en a remote reference to the style or purpose of the room. Of lateyears, there has been such a marked improvement in the designs of these fitmentmantel-pieces that what at first threatened to be an evil cannot fairly be regarded OUR HOMES,. in such light any we must always keepin view the fact thatcomparatively few peoplebuild their own either lease them,or buy the lease or thefreehold; and they haveto take over, with thelegal documents, thearciiitectural short-comingsand structural defects,whatever these may since a good mantel-piece means so much, andsince, also, a bad one canbe taken out and a goodone substituted at a verymoderate cost, the situation IN WHITE WOOD WOKK. is by no means so badas it looks on the firstblush. No other outlayon remodelling—unlessit be for sanitarypurposes—will repaythe occupier half as wellas his outlay on suitabledecorative mantel-pieces. The range olgood designs is large;the range of prices isequally so. You canget very pretty i)inec h i m n e y - [) i e c e s lortwo or three pounds,and the grate and the
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