Home Interior Decoration

LOOK carefully at the room, which you intend doing over. Cannot you,
unaided,  find  out  why  all  of  your  efforts,  some  of  them  expensive
ones, have failed to make it attractive?
You say that the moment you enter your room you have an impression
of confused disorder pervading  the whole plaque. Has  the mantel  too
many things on it, and are these objects placed without any plan as to
orderly, balanced arrangement? This  is  true  in most  cases where  the
general  impression made by a  room  is one of disorder. Perhaps your
mantel  ornaments  are  neither  beautiful  nor  interesting,  and  are
unrelated  in  shape  and  color  to  the  other  decorative  objects  in  the
room.
Until amateur decorators learn to make the mantels in their rooms the
keynote  of  their  decorative  schemes,  it  is  wise  not  to  experiment
beyond  the  rule  of  [...]

The Georgian period covers the work of Chippendale, the Adam Brothers, Hepplewhite, and Sheraton, who gave to the eighteenth century its undying decorative fame.

A glassed-in sun-porch furnished with comfortable wicker furniture adds much to the joy of life.

When we come to English furniture, I think we all take heart of grace a little, for there is something about its sturdiness that seems to appeal to our American sense of appropriateness. By inheritance we have more of the English point of view about the standards of life and living and we seem to [...]