The Studio yearbook of decorative art (1906)

Interior Arrangement and Decoration

must all be planned and
disposed of before the
decorator's task begins.
For, suppose a house is
taken and the intending
occupier chance to be rash
enough to have accepted
the agent's assurance that
everything is just as it
ought to be, the work of
decorating proceeds, until
something is discovered
to be wrong—it may be
an inadequate drain-trap,
improperly secured joints
or taps, the kitchen boiler
defective, or some other
evil more obscure. The
consequence is that the wet
leaks through, and, if it is
not checked in time, the

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the case of a flat the tenant
underneath is like to be the

or windows, be effected, but other indispensable chief sufferer; and, perhaps, costly litigation for
details, such as the fixing of pipes for water damages may result. In the other event the
supply, the drainage, and the artificial lighting decoration may be ruined or the work arrested
—to say nothing of bell-wires and telephones— until the source of the mischief has been traced