New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-09

fault in furnishing OF which the young house
Keeper is quite likely 10 be guilty is monOtony The
mania for having every thing matched has ruined as
many handsome has the love for crude cOlOrs
and loud display In these DAYS when the multitudes
are beginning 10 learn the rudments Of artistic decor
alton il Is mole common 20 find room a failure In
effect because of its mOnoony Of color than because
array Of colors which, the French express it.
at one another It requires artistic per
cepton and feeling for color which few possess
10 arrange great salon with It's varied fittings
and draperes, that IL shall be exquisite in all its
parts, and still beautiful and harmonious whole.
1t Is WELL perhaps that wealthy people hand over
such artistic decorators who understand colOrs
and materials and their relations to each other.
such good in effect, in proportion OF course,
to the skill Of the decorator The mistakes which
people Of moderate means and a limited amount Of
taste and knowledge Of color make is TO copy such
rooms II is as though the simple ballad singer should
travesty the method Of the grand prima donna, and
thereby lose all her simplicity and attractveness. 1t
requires good sense almost akin 10 genius 70 under
staDd your limitations; but only you do so can
you make q Of the furnishing of the simplest
room OF any undertaking, simple or momentous.
Almost any tell when her room Is failure.
though she cannOt always tell what element produced
the result. Remember the most important thing in
plain paror is simplicity Weed out all coarse decora
tons DO not above all things, attempt 70 match all
tho shades in the room. Nothing funereal than
Q in tone. Different shades of the same color
necessary for the eye; and there should
be harmonious -enef in different color. In furnish
Ing room, IL is always wscst after selecting tic
wall decoration and~hoor covering to put in the room
al first only what is essential, and add artistic bits
from time 10 time. they TO lit tremendously into
their places. such room a. this is growth from
ourselves, expression Of own individuality In
this gradual method Of furnishing one is not as likely
10 make blunders in ornamentaton.
The china closet has be an established piece
Of furniture in every diningrOom. The prctieSt
those that fit the the old fashioned
way. They are often made with plate glass shelves
bevelsd on the edges and furnished with mirrors at the
back. Of the closets, however. are made up
with simply polished shelves of wood The rectangular
china closets may shelves of glass transparent
sides and front Of glass, that all it, contents are
displayed. Sometimes the sides Of the china closet
Are cut out in fretwork design.
very simple way TO display dining china
consists of shelves Of handsome wood arranged.
aoove tho other against the wall In suitable place
over the mantle "a table. The wall back Of |
e shelves should lie papered with dark teracotta
zone good color 10 STOW OF the china. Plates should
nan against the wall and cups and saacers and other
pcces may be ranged about. Little brass hooks may |
ee fastened on the edge Of the shelves, and small pitch
- end tiny bits of brio sbrac be hung on these.