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Interior Design
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Lines And Curves
Straight lines in a room call for straight lines in furniture, rugs and
hangings. They make a room dignified and serious in appearan...
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Curved Lines
Curved lines in decoration and furniture are of various kinds. The
rococo styles (Louis XV and the Regency) are overluxurious and ofte...
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Broken Lines
Broken lines give us a feeling of life and movement. But they should
not be used for the permanent decorative lines of a room--the l...
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Vertical Lines
Vertical lines express aspiration and disquietude; diagonal lines,
action. In wall paper designs and rug patterns the diagonal line is...
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Form And Color Tip
Never overemphasize one of the dimensions of height, width and
depth at the expense of one of the others. They must be
harmonized.
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Oblong
The proportions of any room are best when they make a normal impression
on the eye. The oblong is the best decorative art form, as a
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The Square
The square form is solid and firm, but tends to be monotonous. Square
windows, fireplaces and wall spaces, as well as square rooms in ...
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The Triangle
The triangular form (in mantel clocks, lampshades, highboys, bookcase
foundations, and sometimes where it appears in wall paper or T...
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Curved Forms
Curved forms, the circle, the oval and the ellipse, are all agreeable.
There is in them "a hint of the mysterious dualism of life."
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Color
Colors makes decorative shapes easy to see. (For the character of the
colors and the principles of their effective combination the rea...
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Proportion
All parts of a furnished room must help express one ideal of balance.
The realization of this ideal is proportion. A horizontal roo...
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The Dining Room And Work Rooms
The dining room, with which we were so directly concerned in the
preceding portion of this book, offers a natural point of departu...
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Working Rooms Versus Living Rooms
Before passing to the other rooms of the house, we will pause to
consider a more purely utilitarian group.
The Kitchen.--These room...
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Living Room Drawing Room And Library
We now return to the rooms where decoration is the rule. While always
remembering that connecting rooms must harmonize with one anothe...
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Bed Room Nursery And Play Room
For the bedroom, though other colors such as green and violet, in
particular (save red, which is a poor bedroom hue) are not barred,...
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Nursery And Play Room
These children's rooms should always give out a gay and cheerful
atmosphere. To obtain this wall papers with colorful friezes with
ch...
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Some Hints Anent Period Furniture
Period furniture is a means to a decorative end. It is a part of
the decoration of a room, and must be adapted to its lines and
pro...
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Final Tips
Interior Decoration is a very extensive and complicated subject. What
we have here attempted to do has been to give an idea of the ge...
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Home Decoration
The chief features to be observed in house furnishing are color, form, and proportion. All stiffness of design in furniture should be a...
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The Hall
The hall being the index to the whole house, due care should therefore be given to its furnishing. Light colors and gilding should be a...
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The Sitting-room
The sitting or everyday room should be the brightest and most attractive room in the house. Its beauty of decoration should not be so m...
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The Library
The walls of the library should be hung with rich, dark colors, the latest style in wall paper being a black ground with old gold and o...
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Chambers
The walls of bedrooms should be decorated in light tints and shadings, with a narrow rail and deep frieze. Most housekeepers prefer rug...
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The Diningroom
The dining-room should be furnished with a view to convenience, richness, and comfort. Choose deep, rich grounds for the walls—bronze-m...
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The Kitchen
It is a remark too often made that this or that “is good enough for a servant.” If all knew that unpleasant surroundings made unpleasan...
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Decoration As An Art
"Who creates a Home, creates a potent spirit which in turn doth fashion
him that fashioned."
Probably no art has so few masters a...
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Character In Houses
"For the created still doth shadow forth the mind and will which made
it.
"Thou art the very mould of thy creator."
It needs t...
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Builders' Houses
"Mine own hired house."
A large proportion of homes are made in houses which are not owned, but
leased, and this prevents each ma...
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Colour In Houses
"Heaven gives us of its colour, for our joy,
Hues which have words and speak to ye of heaven."
Although the very existence of...
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The Law Of Appropriateness
I have laid much stress upon the value of colour in interior decoration,
but to complete the beauty of the home something more than ...
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Kitchens
The kitchen is an important part of the perfect house and should be a
recognised sharer in its quality of beauty; not alone the beau...
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Colour With Reference To Light
In choosing colour for walls and ceilings, it is most necessary to
consider the special laws which govern its application to house
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Walls Ceilings And Floors
The true principle of wall treatment is to make the boundary stand for
colour and beauty, and not alone for division of space.
As...
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Location Of The House
Besides the difference in treatment demanded by different use of
rooms--the character of the decoration of the whole house will be
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Ceilings
As ceilings are in reality a part of the wall, they must always be
considered in connection with room interiors, but their influence...
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Floors And Floor-coverings
Although in ordinary sequence the colouring of floors comes after that
of walls, the fact that--in important houses--costly and elab...
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Draperies
Draperies are not always considered as a part of furnishings, yet in
truth--as far as decorative necessities are concerned--they sho...
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Furniture
Although the forms and varieties of furniture are infinite, they can
easily be classified first into the two great divisions of good...
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Thoughts on Materials
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Textiles
There are several ways of ornamenting a woven cloth: (1) real tapestry,
(2) carpet-weaving, (3) mechanical weaving, (4) printing or ...
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Of Decorative Painting And Design
The term Decorative painting implies the existence of painting which is
not decorative: a strange state of things for an art which p...
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Of Wall Papers
While the tradition and practice of mural painting as applied to
interior walls and ceilings of houses still linger in Italy, in the...
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Fictiles
Earliest amongst the inventions of man and his endeavour to unite Art
with Craft is the Fictile Art. His first needs in domestic lif...
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Metal Work
In discussing the artistic aspect of metal work, we have to take into
account the physical properties and appropriate treatment of t...
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Stone And Wood Carving
The crafts of the stone and wood carver may fairly be taken in review at
the same time, although they differ in themselves.
It is...
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Furniture
The institution of schools of art and design, and the efforts of serials
and magazines devoted to artistic matters, have had their p...
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Stained Glass
In these days there is a tendency to judge the merits of stained glass
from the standpoint of the archaeologist. It is good or bad i...
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Table Glass
Few materials lend themselves more readily to the skill of the craftsman
than glass. The fluid or viscous condition of the "metal" a...
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Printing
Printing, in the only sense with which we are at present concerned,
differs from most if not from all the arts and crafts represente...
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Bookbinding
Modern bookbinding dates from the application of printing to literature,
and in essentials has remained unchanged to the present day...
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Of Mural Painting
There seems no precise reason why the subject of this note should differ
much from that of Mr. Crane's article on "Decorative Painti...
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Of Sgraffito Work
The Italian words Graffiato, Sgraffiato, or Sgraffito, mean "Scratched,"
and scratched work is the oldest form of graphic expression...
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Of Stucco And Gesso
Few things are more disheartening to the pursuer of plastic art than
finding that, when he has carried his own labour to a certain p...
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Of Cast Iron
Cast iron is nearly our humblest material, and with associations less
than all artistic, for it has been almost hopelessly vulgarise...
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Of Dyeing As An Art
Dyeing is a very ancient art; from the earliest times of the ancient
civilisations till within about forty years ago there had been ...
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Of Embroidery
The technicalities of Embroidery are very simple and its tools
few--practically consisting of a needle, and nothing else. The work c...
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Of Lace
Lace is a term freely used at the present time to describe various sorts
of open ornament in thread work, the successful effect of w...
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Of Book Illustration And Book Decoration
Book illustration is supposed to have made a great advance in the last
few years. No doubt it has, but this advance has not been mad...
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Of Designs And Working Drawings
The drawings which most deeply interest the workman are working
drawings--just the last to be appreciated by the public, because the...
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Furniture And The Room
The art of furnishing runs on two wheels--the room and the furniture. As
in the bicycle, the inordinate development of one wheel at ...
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Of The Room And Furniture
The transient tenure that most of us have in our dwellings, and the
absorbing nature of the struggle that most of us have to make to...
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The English Tradition
The sense of a consecutive tradition has so completely faded out of
English art that it has become difficult to realise the meaning ...
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Carpenters' Furniture
It requires a far search to gather up examples of furniture really
representative in this kind, and thus to gain a point of view for...
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Of Decorated Furniture
Decorated or "sumptuous" furniture is not merely furniture that is
expensive to buy, but that which has been elaborated with much th...
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Of Carving
It is not uncommon to see an elaborate piece of furniture, in decorating
which it is evident that the carver has had opportunity for...
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Intarsia And Inlaid Wood-work
Although decoration by inlaying woods of different colours must
naturally have suggested itself in very early times, as soon indeed ...
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Woods And Other Materials
The woods in ordinary use by cabinetmakers may be divided broadly into
two classes, viz. those which by their strength, toughness, a...
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Of Modern Embroidery
If we wish to arrive at a true estimate of the value of modern
embroidery, we must examine the work being sold in the fancy-work sho...
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Of Materials
Almost every fabric that is good of its kind is suitable for a ground
for needlework, and any thread of silk, linen, cotton, or wool...
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Colour
It is not unusual to hear said of textiles and embroideries, "I like
soft quiet colouring; such and such is too bright." This assert...
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Stitches And Mechanism
As a guiding classification of methods of embroidery considered from the
technical point of view, I have set down the following head...
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Design
"Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of
thine own well."--SOLOMON.
"Produce; produce; be it b...
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