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The breakfast room and the dining room may be considered together; they frequently adjoin, and there should be as much contrast between them as possible. The one is small, the other large; the one light and gay, the other massive and impressive. In the one, a painted table and chairs and sideboard with chintz or light silk materials are conceivable; in the other, wood wainscoting, a long reflectory table, tapestries, marble-topped serving tables, cabinets, etc., are suggested. Illustrations of both types are given.
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This living room is somewhat Italian Renaissance, though with modern interpolations. Tapestries and red velvets are chiefly used, the furniture being in walnut touched with gold.
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A boudoir in which the style is distinctly modern, the legs of the furniture being those
of a Dachshund.
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As to the servants' hall and bedrooms, let us cease, now and forever, giving these helpers our old cast-off things and get them suitably simple beds and bureaus, chairs and tables that are not too large for their quarters and curtains that are new and clean, though inexpensive, and that they can call their very own. I am sure that a subtle psychological effect, and a bad one, is given to servants who sleep in cast-off golden oak beds of their masters and who dine from abandoned golden oak tables while seated upon plush upholstered mahogany chairs of the period of Louis the Fourteenth Street, as this style has been very appropriately named. Such things are perpetrated by kindly-disposed mistresses who would not think of offering their maids a milliner's creation of the year 1900, simply because both maids and mistresses are less sensitive to furniture than to wearing apparel. But I am convinced that this procedure is a mistake.
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