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Quality of rugs and fabrics: carpet and rug making has reached a high standard in this country. Rugs with excellent wearing qualities are to be had at reasonable prices for the standard nine by twelve. They will cost a little more if the rug is cut to fit the outline of your room. The same high standards are followed in fabric manufacture. It is wise to buy as good a quality as you can afford, especially in rugs, as they come as near bring a permanent investment as furniture. Continue reading »

Pages could be written about each of these subjects but here are some of the main points boiled down to the most important facts. Again let me stress that taste, not money, is what counts most in decorating and that there are good values on the market.

Size of rug: except where scatter rugs are used, the style today is to have the rug follow the outline of the room, allowing a margin of from six to twelve inches between wall and rug around the entire room. In modern rooms and Continue reading »

Clock and pewter: this arrangement of mere shelf over a fireplace is an informal one, easily followed. It is typical of early New England houses and appropriate today for rooms of informal character. If you have an ugly mantel, tear it out and do this. A carpenter could build a shelf over the fire opening suitable for the room. Any “treasures” of plates, china or pewter could be used in this fashion.

Your “collection”: if you are a collector and if not – why not, as it’s great fun of any amusing small objects, she shells, ten – cent – store animals, here Continue reading »

There are a number of attractive ways to arrange a room. The point is that there must be a center of interest in place of a fireplace. A fireplace not only has architectural quality, but it is also an upright and breaks a wall space. Therefore, we must look to uprights and the grouping of comfortable chairs usually found near the hearth to make the same sort of decorative, comfortable group in another way. Continue reading »