Identifier: homestheirdecora00fren (find matches)
Title: Homes and their decoration
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939
Subjects: Interior decoration
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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Empire ckeva) dHa&S er- 218 HOMES AND THEIR DECORATION she is confining herself to appointed places andstated hours for receiving. When drawing-rooms of a more elaborate char-acter, or when a series of drawing-rooms of analways increasing splendor, reproducing periods andcelebrated interiors, are introduced into a house,it goes without saying that an architect has beenor should have been in consultation. A discussion of detailed appointments properto these drawing-rooms would carry us altogetherbeyond the scope of this volume, although in theirdecoration no one can escape the problems confront-ing the very humblest of home-loving spinsters inthe most modest of parlors. No woman can getaway from the question of color. She should al-ways be mistress of a felicitous manner of self-expression. Certainly she can never hope themoney she spends will make a successful homeif she neglects consideration of the affections, thesentiments, the accomplishments, or the considera-tion of those ne

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