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Here we have the living room and dining room combined. On the left a carved Gothic cabinet for glassware. Then a table which opens up to seat four with an extra top for eight. All sorts of chairs are used for meals.
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This might be the corner of a bedroom or a dressing room.
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taffetas or satins or chintz and taffeta combined is the best, with painted furniture or pale walnut or satinwood or the much used Hungarian ash. To me the simple canopy close up against the wall behind the bed still remains a very desirable feature and does not, as some old-fashioned people believe, either prevent the air from reaching one while one sleeps or catch any especial amount of dust.
The backgrounds of small apartments, such as the ceilings, walls and carpets are best when they are very much in harmony with one another; and the draperies of adjoining rooms, such as the dining room and living room, may very properly be the same, but when one steps into the bed chamber a certain change of feeling is desirable, which can only be procured by the creation of a conscious contrast. The darker tones of tapestries, needlework (if one can afford it or make it one's self) velvet and damask are proper to the masculine atmosphere of the library and living room just as the lighter tints of taffeta and satin are to the bedroom. If'the living room is made at all feminine it takes on the character of a drawing room, which is generally too formal for the diminutive manage. Yet if the furniture of the living room is very heavy, it is apt to crowd the home too much. These things can best be worked out in connection with each individual problem.
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