Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-03-23
,r. You don't need conspicuous oornice.

or. You don't need q conspicuous cornice.
There is nothing more vulgar.
For a centre table, any kind of simple
tahle will do. Avoid those hideous white
marble top ones. IL it is plain square or
round pine table, with legs painted black,
it will serve as we'll as another. Then put
pretty cloth on it of agreeable colors
That will 20 far toward making your room
bright and cheerful. and the cost of the
whole will be less than that of marble top
table or one of the machine carved mon
strosities.
As to the chairs, first
of all get those that
people can occupy comfortably. A chair is
not merely to be looked at, and it ia not in
tended to be an instrument of torture.
The same thing is tue about sofas. They
especially should invite occupancy by their
comfortable appearance. Avoid curved
backed chairs with carvings which annoy
those who sit in them. There is no need
of buying set Of furniture with chairs
matching in their covering. Get only the
articles which by themselves please you, no
matter how great the variety, taking care,
however, to have them covered with stutfs
of agreeable tones of color that 60 we'll to-
gether. Easy chairs and sofas which show
no wood except in the legs, and are up
holstered throughout, are the best.
Wicker chairs are desirable, and they
ara cheap. Black is good color for them /.
| Two or three camp chairs, covered with
| dark and pretty stuff, are also very conven>
| lent to bring into use on occasion.
Don't undertake to load your parlor with
furniture. Comparatively few articles are
| necessary, and everything ia it should have
| its use or q reason for being there because
| of its beauty. If you wish to paper the
| walls, put Oh quiet paper OF pleasant
tone. without large figures. Even that
which is perfectly plain is good, provided
its color helps 10 furnish the room and gives
Il desirable background for pictures.
| A good carpenter can make for you side
| hoard which will serve any purpose, and be
better than the ugly things generally sold
| in the shops. Paint it black, for instance,
| giving it several coats, then apply varnish,
and it will look like lacquer work. Put a
little red stripe around to relieve the black.
A box standing ON its side, with two OF
three shelves within it. and peshaps two
or three on top, is all you need. A curtain
in front will hide the lower shelves, and a
piece of dark enamelled cloth on top will
complete the thing. There is no
need of going to much expense for side
| board.
Paint the walls of your hall a plain tint
| -Pompeian red is good shade--and let
the washboard be dark brown, and relieve
the edge of the ceiling with black line.
Paint the floor very dark brown and shell
lac it, Then lay strip of carpet half a
| yard wide through the center, put up some
pegs to hang coats on, provide table
for hats, jar for umbrellas and u
chair to sit on, and your hall will be all
right. Avoid the stiff hat racks OF al
octopus pattern.
And generally, in carpetlng your house,
| don't think it necessary to fit the carpet in
to every little jog. Leave space sixteen
or eighteen inches around it, to be painted
dark brown and covered with shellac. And
let the carpets be small in figure and quiet
| in tone.
| All this may be done at no great expense
with very little money. indeed, COM
pared to that often expended to make a
Single room hideous. The bride who hon
ors us by asking our advice. can make he1
country home pretty and model for the
whole neighborhood with small outlay OF
money, if Der taste is good, and she is mol
tied down by merely conventional notions
of house furnishing.