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The man's study, again, is like the library and very few apartments will contain both, unless the former is a mere office or cubby-hole for the reception of business conferences. To those who do not care for books, this room will be in the nature of a gaming place with small side chairs, a cellaret, and a desk, which proves a useful piece of furniture in almost every room. In some apartments, for variety, it may seem well to do this room in rather modern effect with bright chintz and painted pieces.
Generally a most pathetic spectacle, the billiard room can easily be a place of more than the one sort of pleasure that its name implies. There is no reason why the ugly green table top should be exposed, or why the lights hanging over it should be ugly, or why there should not be handsome articles of furniture placed in it. One of my clients, in order to keep her three sons home at night, transformed her only living room into a place for billiards and made a living room of her large entrance hall, but both were rooms in
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which anyone might happily pass very excellent evenings, even without a cue. There were not stiff uncomfortable chairs, and a real effort to make the billiard room more than merely utilitarian was made.
Crudely ^ described, the boudoir may be mentioned as a cross between the bed chamber and the drawing room: a place for the possible entertainment of feminine guests, but regularly to be employed as an adjunct of the sleeping quarters and perhaps for breakfast, when there is no breakfast room, or where this is inconveniently distant. Its essentials appear to be the chaise longue, the small desk, the tea table, and a real fireplace, when this can be had, is a satisfying accessory. Here again the French styles reign supreme, combined with taffetas or satins, though I show here how a room of this type may be treated in a thoroughly modern and revolutionary way and, as I think, with success.
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