. Good taste in home furnishing. ed in the rails of the chair back. If arms are added they should not bemore than ten inches from the seat. These principles are so clearly defined by HOME FURNISHING 103 Mr. Foley that any amplification of themwould tend rather to confuse than to sim-plify, but it is possible to sum the wholematter up in one pat phrase—good chairsare made to sit on with comfort. True, thisfact is known by everyone, but how pathet-ically few are such chairs! If one is to select successful pieces for anyroom in the house, regardless of whether histastes are elaborate and the furn
. Good taste in home furnishing. ed in the rails of the chair back. If arms are added they should not bemore than ten inches from the seat. These principles are so clearly defined by HOME FURNISHING 103 Mr. Foley that any amplification of themwould tend rather to confuse than to sim-plify, but it is possible to sum the wholematter up in one pat phrase—good chairsare made to sit on with comfort. True, thisfact is known by everyone, but how pathet-ically few are such chairs! If one is to select successful pieces for anyroom in the house, regardless of whether histastes are elaborate and the furniture of theLouis appeal or whether they are simple andthe Mission or Arts Crafts are to be used, hemust constantly return to certain universalprinciples which apply throughout the en-tire work. That these principles may be clearlybrought into relief, let us again imagine ourroom of Chapter VI, an average modern,modest living room, say, eighteen feet wideand twenty-one feet long, and apply themconstructively. 104 GOOD TASTE IN. The walls are a soft gray tan, the floor iscovered with a single-tone rug of rich, darkblue flecked thickly with grayish-whitethreads. The woodwork is warm brown, rub-finished, plain oak. The three windows arelarge; one faces the north upon a neighbor-ing yard; two face east upon a street in theresidential section of a large city. The win-dows are draped with soft, light, simplehangings of deep rose linen, and the scrimcurtains, of ecru tone, are trimmed with anarrow, inexpensive Cluny edge. At the end of the room is a fireplace ofdark red brick; it is built to burn short sticksof wood. As the average room is used as a gather-ing place for the family, it should be com-fortable, dignified and at the same time rea-sonably intimate—that is, the chairs shouldbe personal and not so heavy as to make mov- g them from place to place a difficult task. U«-«*^>S3Z~ HOME FURNISHING 105 Laying aside the money problem, as it hasalready been touched upon, we n
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