Our homes, and how to beautify them . assuming that the sanitary necessities are kept well in view, the nextpoint is cheerfulness. A bedroom ought to be a pretty room. A lad3s bedroomwill, of course, be daintier in its knicknacks than a mans ; but even a mans maybe bright and cosy. It is an excellent plan to treat the bedrooms of a house indifferent schemes, and one or two of them, if circumstances permit of it, shouldbe fitted rooms. In this way you may have a room in which cream colourpredominates, another in which pale rose is the feature, a third treated in paleblue, a fourth in celadon gr
Our homes, and how to beautify them . assuming that the sanitary necessities are kept well in view, the nextpoint is cheerfulness. A bedroom ought to be a pretty room. A lad3s bedroomwill, of course, be daintier in its knicknacks than a mans ; but even a mans maybe bright and cosy. It is an excellent plan to treat the bedrooms of a house indifferent schemes, and one or two of them, if circumstances permit of it, shouldbe fitted rooms. In this way you may have a room in which cream colourpredominates, another in which pale rose is the feature, a third treated in paleblue, a fourth in celadon green, and so on. You may have one in the MarieAntoinette style, another in the i8th Century English style, and a third in the2oth Century English. In any case the wall-paper should be of a quiet,pretty design, minus a recurrent note running through it with maddeningmathematical regularity; and if possible the same design should be repeatedin the curtains. A chintz pattern is perhaps the best, because it is so easilymatched in AND HOW TO BEAUTIFY THEM. SIMPLICITY WITH DECEIT. nPHE cheap deal dressing-table, decked out in a garb of white muslin withbows of coloured ribbon, is a fraud. There is no other term for it, unlessyou prefer whited sepulchre. It is a mean contrivance for disguising the barenakedness of a five-shilling piece of furniture, and trying to invest it with a coy,artistic simplicity. I think I prefer the bare deal legs to this pretentious vallanceof inferior drapery, and the tawdry eflbrts of decoration which its poverty is no necessity for this flimsy fuss. If you are bound to be cheap, be alsohonest and proclaim your cheapness. An enamelled dressing-table costs littleenough, and can be obtained with delicate spindle-legs which are a dream ofdaintiness ; why then the plain deal, with never a coat of paint, wearing a frock offalsehood, the one aim of which is to hide the fact that it is plain ? I repeat, letus be honest, and get rid of dece
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