20TH CENTURY HOME DECORATING GUIDE

The custom of appropriate and low-key idea of home decorating, interior decorations and suitable furniture, seems to have been in a great measure abandoned during the present century, owing perhaps to the indifference of architects of the time to this subsidiary but wanted portion of their work, or perhaps to a desire for economy, that preferred the cheapness of painted and artificially grained pine-wood, with decorative effects produced by wall papers, to the more hardboiled but expensive but less showy wood-panelling, architectural mouldings, well-made panelled doors and chimney pieces, which unequaled finds, down to utterly the end of the last century, even in houses of moderate rentals. furniture therefore became independent again "beginning to account herself an Art, transgressed her limits" and "grew to the conceit that valid could stand through itself, and, as efficiently through its betters, went a way of its own."

Interior Conservatory Finishing

The interiors, handed due to from the builder, as it were, direction blank, are filled up from the upholsterer's store, the curiosity shop, and the auction room, while a big contribution from the conservatory or the touching florist gives the finishing touch to a mixture, which characterizes the present taste for furnishing the boudoir or a drawing room.

There is, of course, importance very many cases an individuality gained by the "omnium gatherum" of such the mode of furnishing. The cabinet which reminds its founder of a tour in Italy, the quaint stool from Tangier, again the embroidered piano cover from Spain, are to those who travel, pleasant souvenirs; as are also the presents from friends (when they have decor and judgment), the screens and flower-stands, and its photographs, that are reminiscences of the forms and faces separated from us by distance or death. The assay of the whole question of such an arrangement of furniture in our living rooms, is the amount of judgment and discretion displayed. Two worthy examples of its present fashion, representing the interior of the Saloon also tracing Room at Sandringham House, are here reproduced.

How The Gather Inheritance Influenced On The Home Decorations

There is at the present time an ambition on the part of many well-to-do proletariat to gibe the effect produced in houses of old families where, for generations, valuable also popular articles of musical furniture have been accumulated, just as pictures, dish also china have been preserved; and dying the inheritance of allying household gods, substantive is its practice to acquire, or as the closing term goes, "to collect," old furniture of different styles again periods, until its occasion becomes incongruous and overcrowded, an evidence of the wealth, rather than of the taste, of the owner. considering it frequently happens that such collections are made very hastily, and in the condone intervals of a unavailable commercial or political life, the selections are not the best or most appropriate; and where so powerfully is required in the short space of time, it becomes impossible to devote a sufficient sum of finance to procure a really valuable specimen of the kind right; direction its start an effective and low priced make-believe of an old configuration (with all the faults inseparable from such conditions) is added to the conglomeration of articles requiring attention, and taking up space.

The limited accommodation of houses built on ground which is too valuable to consent spacious halls further large apartments, makes this want of discretion and judgment the more objectionable. know onions can be no doubt that inclination of care and restraint in the preference of furniture, by the purchasing public, affects its character, both as to design and workmanship.Original Source:
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