| The custom of appropriate and harmonious
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| | rooms, is the amount of judgment and
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| treatment of home decorating, interior
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| | discretion displayed. Two favorable
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| decorations and suitable furniture, seems
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| | examples of the present fashion,
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| to have been in a great measure abandoned
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| | representing the interior of the Saloon
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| during the present century, owing perhaps
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| | and Drawing Room at Sandringham House,
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| to the indifference of architects of the
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| | are here reproduced.
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| time to this subsidiary but necessary
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| | How The Gather Inheritance Influenced On
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| portion of their work, or perhaps to a
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| | The Home Decorations
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| desire for economy, which preferred the
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| | There is at the present time an ambition
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| cheapness of painted and artificially
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| | on the part of many well-to-do persons to
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| grained pine-wood, with decorative
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| | imitate the effect produced in houses of
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| effects produced by wall papers, to the
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| | old families where, for generations,
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| more solid but expensive though less
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| | valuable and memorable articles of
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| showy wood-panelling, architectural
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| | decorative furniture have been
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| mouldings, well-made panelled doors and
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| | accumulated, just as pictures, plate and
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| chimney pieces, which one finds, down to
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| | china have been preserved; and failing
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| quite the end of the last century, even
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| | the inheritance of such household gods,
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| in houses of moderate rentals. Furniture
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| | it is the practice to acquire, or as the
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| therefore became independent and
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| | modern term goes, "to collect," old
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| "beginning to account herself an Art,
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| | furniture of different styles and
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| transgressed her limits"... and "grew to
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| | periods, until the room becomes
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| the conceit that it could stand by
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| | incongruous and overcrowded, an evidence
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| itself, and, as well as its betters, went
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| | of the wealth, rather than of the taste,
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| a way of its own."
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| | of the owner. As it frequently happens
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| Interior Conservatory Finishing
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| | that such collections are made very
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| The interiors, handed over from the
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| | hastily, and in the brief intervals of a
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| builder, as it were, in blank, are filled
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| | busy commercial or political life, the
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| up from the upholsterer's store, the
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| | selections are not the best or most
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| curiosity shop, and the auction room,
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| | suitable; and where so much is required
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| while a large contribution from the
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| | in a short space of time, it becomes
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| conservatory or the nearest florist gives
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| | impossible to devote a sufficient sum of
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| the finishing touch to a mixture, which
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| | money to procure a really valuable
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| characterizes the present taste for
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| | specimen of the kind desired; in its
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| furnishing a boudoir or a drawing room.
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| | place an effective and low priced
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| There is, of course, in very many cases
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| | reproduction of an old pattern (with all
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| an individuality gained by the "omnium
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| | the faults inseparable from such
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| gatherum" of such a mode of furnishing.
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| | conditions) is added to the
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| The cabinet which reminds its owner of a
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| | conglomeration of articles requiring
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| tour in Italy, the quaint stool from
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| | attention, and taking up space.
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| Tangier, and the embroidered piano cover
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| | The limited accommodation of houses built
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| from Spain, are to those who travel,
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| | on ground which is too valuable to allow
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| pleasant souvenirs; as are also the
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| | spacious halls and large apartments,
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| presents from friends (when they have
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| | makes this want of discretion and
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| taste and judgment), the screens and
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| | judgment the more objectionable. There
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| flower-stands, and the photographs, which
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| | can be no doubt that want of care and
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| are reminiscences of the forms and faces
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| | restraint in the selection of furniture,
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| separated from us by distance or death.
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| | by the purchasing public, affects its
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| The test of the whole question of such an
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| | character, both as to design and
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| arrangement of furniture in our living
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| | workmanship.
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