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Wainwright, Shirley B.: On the decoration & furnishing of small rooms
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ON THE DECORATION FURNISHING
OF SMALL ROOMS. BY SHIRLEY B.
WAINWRIGHT
HE remarkable interest taken in domestic architecture during
the last twelve months may be accepted as evidence of the grow-
ing importance attached, in the mind of the public, to matters
relating to the home. A notable feature of the controversies
that have raged round the housing question has been the general and
unqualified acceptance of the need for beauty, as well as utility, in the
homes of the future. The acknowledgment of this principle by the
average citizen is a significant indication of the healthy and vigorous
attitude of the country towards the problems of reconstruction which
compel the attention of the community at the present time. This in-
terest is manifested also in all that appertains to the decoration, furnish-
ing and internal economies of the home.
While the various housing schemes which have occasioned so much
controversy have been considered primarily in relation to the needs or
the “working classes,” the subject is of equal interest and urgency to
large numbers of business and professional men and their wives who
are obliged, from motives of economy, to occupy small houses, or elect
to do so on account of the greater ease and convenience of running a
small establishment under existing conditions. The problem which
confronts people of this class about to furnish a home is in some re-
spects more acute than the difficulties incidental to securing the house
itself. The scarcity of furniture
is as notable as the shortage of
houses; while prices have soared
to a height embarrassing to
people of moderate means.
There is no government sub-
sidy here to help out the indi-
vidual ; while in addition one is
faced with certain new factors
in everyday life which must in-
evitably modify in many ways
the detailed organization and
equipment of the home. Among
these factors looms up the vexed
question of the scarcity of do-
mestic servants, one result of
which has been that a very large
number of people have been A PATCHWORK CUSHION (PAGE 2l'
I
OF SMALL ROOMS. BY SHIRLEY B.
WAINWRIGHT
HE remarkable interest taken in domestic architecture during
the last twelve months may be accepted as evidence of the grow-
ing importance attached, in the mind of the public, to matters
relating to the home. A notable feature of the controversies
that have raged round the housing question has been the general and
unqualified acceptance of the need for beauty, as well as utility, in the
homes of the future. The acknowledgment of this principle by the
average citizen is a significant indication of the healthy and vigorous
attitude of the country towards the problems of reconstruction which
compel the attention of the community at the present time. This in-
terest is manifested also in all that appertains to the decoration, furnish-
ing and internal economies of the home.
While the various housing schemes which have occasioned so much
controversy have been considered primarily in relation to the needs or
the “working classes,” the subject is of equal interest and urgency to
large numbers of business and professional men and their wives who
are obliged, from motives of economy, to occupy small houses, or elect
to do so on account of the greater ease and convenience of running a
small establishment under existing conditions. The problem which
confronts people of this class about to furnish a home is in some re-
spects more acute than the difficulties incidental to securing the house
itself. The scarcity of furniture
is as notable as the shortage of
houses; while prices have soared
to a height embarrassing to
people of moderate means.
There is no government sub-
sidy here to help out the indi-
vidual ; while in addition one is
faced with certain new factors
in everyday life which must in-
evitably modify in many ways
the detailed organization and
equipment of the home. Among
these factors looms up the vexed
question of the scarcity of do-
mestic servants, one result of
which has been that a very large
number of people have been A PATCHWORK CUSHION (PAGE 2l'
I