DOI Artikel:
Wainwright, Shirley B.: On the decoration & furnishing of small rooms
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41870#0030
ON THE DECORATION AND FURNISHING OF SMALL ROOMS
a t'oot-end standing up some distance above the bed level. I n a small room
this is a nuisance. If the foot be kept quite low, as shown on page 14,
there will be a sense of space gained and the occupant will feel less
cramped in moving about the room.
The furnishing of living-rooms is almost as much controlled by tradition
as in the case of the bedroom, although happily the old idea of using the
dining-room also as a sitting-room,reserving thesecond apartmentfor use
only on rare occasions, is rapidly dying out. One now finds one room used
exclusively for meals, while the drawing-room of the past has become a
sitting-room orliving-room in the proper sense of the word. The tendency
in future planning will doubtless be to reduce the apartment reserved for
meals to the smallest dimensions practicable (and if allocated to this pur-
pose alone a very small room is adequate), while all the space possible will
be given to the sitting-room, which becomes the real focus of the home.
This change of ideas is a common-sense one and has already brought about
marked changes in furnishings. One no longer finds to the same extent
the meaningless collection of fragile tables and cabinets staggering under
loads of rubbish ; while the terrible chairs which threatened to collapse if
brought into serious use, have largely been replaced by reasonably sturdy
and comfortable pieces. The drawing on page 17 illustrates the character
of sitting-room which accords with modern ideas. The lounge chair
shown is a type that is now procurable and is probably the best substitute
SIDE OF A SITTING-ROOM, WITH RECESSED BOOK OR CHINA CUPBOARDS (PAGES 8 AND SO)
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a t'oot-end standing up some distance above the bed level. I n a small room
this is a nuisance. If the foot be kept quite low, as shown on page 14,
there will be a sense of space gained and the occupant will feel less
cramped in moving about the room.
The furnishing of living-rooms is almost as much controlled by tradition
as in the case of the bedroom, although happily the old idea of using the
dining-room also as a sitting-room,reserving thesecond apartmentfor use
only on rare occasions, is rapidly dying out. One now finds one room used
exclusively for meals, while the drawing-room of the past has become a
sitting-room orliving-room in the proper sense of the word. The tendency
in future planning will doubtless be to reduce the apartment reserved for
meals to the smallest dimensions practicable (and if allocated to this pur-
pose alone a very small room is adequate), while all the space possible will
be given to the sitting-room, which becomes the real focus of the home.
This change of ideas is a common-sense one and has already brought about
marked changes in furnishings. One no longer finds to the same extent
the meaningless collection of fragile tables and cabinets staggering under
loads of rubbish ; while the terrible chairs which threatened to collapse if
brought into serious use, have largely been replaced by reasonably sturdy
and comfortable pieces. The drawing on page 17 illustrates the character
of sitting-room which accords with modern ideas. The lounge chair
shown is a type that is now procurable and is probably the best substitute
SIDE OF A SITTING-ROOM, WITH RECESSED BOOK OR CHINA CUPBOARDS (PAGES 8 AND SO)
18