. Good taste in home furnishing. o-. 0 50 GOOD TASTE IN clutter the room, and, except in unusualcases, to weaken the decorative scheme, bring-ing the floor up to the eye when it should bekept down as a base. Next we come to the question of decidingbetween rugs and carpets. It may be wellhere, before going further, to frankly admitthat this is almost entirely a question offashion. There are unanswerable argumentsto be brought forward in defense of either,and, colloquially speaking, it will be foundthat every decorator has an axe to grindin this matter. It may not be amiss, how-ever, to set down
. Good taste in home furnishing. o-. 0 50 GOOD TASTE IN clutter the room, and, except in unusualcases, to weaken the decorative scheme, bring-ing the floor up to the eye when it should bekept down as a base. Next we come to the question of decidingbetween rugs and carpets. It may be wellhere, before going further, to frankly admitthat this is almost entirely a question offashion. There are unanswerable argumentsto be brought forward in defense of either,and, colloquially speaking, it will be foundthat every decorator has an axe to grindin this matter. It may not be amiss, how-ever, to set down some of the argumentswhich are used, allowing the reader to makehis own choice as to which school he will fol-low. When carpets are used, there is theadvantage of being able to hold your decora-tive scheme more closely as a unit, as the col-or is not broken by the bare floor; with rugsthe effect is scattered, and it is difficult, with HOME FURNISHING 51 the confused atmosphere which rugs tend togive, to hold the scheme together. On
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