. Good taste in home furnishing. essfully applied to any room with littlechance of failure to secure harmonious ef-fects. Another important consideration in the se- HOME FURNISHING 91 lection of curtains and draperies is, for thewant of a better name, fitness of the room in question be the mostelaborate of salons, or the simplest of liv-ing rooms, this element of fitness is of greatimportance. While it is almost impossibleto tell where the line of discriminationshould be drawn, it is possible to set downsome of the important points to be remem-bered when the selections are made
. Good taste in home furnishing. essfully applied to any room with littlechance of failure to secure harmonious ef-fects. Another important consideration in the se- HOME FURNISHING 91 lection of curtains and draperies is, for thewant of a better name, fitness of the room in question be the mostelaborate of salons, or the simplest of liv-ing rooms, this element of fitness is of greatimportance. While it is almost impossibleto tell where the line of discriminationshould be drawn, it is possible to set downsome of the important points to be remem-bered when the selections are made. The character of the curtains and drap-eries should be in keeping with the rest ofthe room. They should never be of such aquality or design as to command attentionto themselves because of their prominence inthe room. Tn the libraries, the living rooms and thedining rooms of modest homes the curtainsshould be of the simplest materials, such asgood qualities of scrim, and the less elabo-rate patterns of net by the yard. In these.
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