The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-03-13
WHEN FURNISHING A HOUSE.
study Furniture, Color Schemes.
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study Furniture, Color Schemes.
Pictures and Their Frames.
Many of the houses that one en-
ters show the best taste I'm regard TO
color schemes and furniture, and fail
miserably when It comes to the
choice OF pictures and their frames.
The reason partlyis that unless great
expense is gone to, IL is not easy to
find good pictures with suitable
frames. Many good pictures can be
had at any picture shop, but Il Ia
another thing to frame them suita-
bly,. The frame must not only suit
the picture, but what is more impor-
tant, II must suit the place where It
is TO be hung. Hall pictures should
he strong in tone, having large
masses of lights and shadows. so that
a person walking through a hall can
see at a glance the meaning of a pic
ture. Sculpture or architecture are
suitable subjects. The Parthenon,
the front Of Amiens Cathedral, Ant
werp Cathedral, Bruges Cathedral
are all good.
In a sitting room, reproductions
OF famous paintings, photographs
and plaster casts are always decora-
tive The Singing Boys" framed in
sections in broad, wide frame,
make a beautiful subject above
man.elpiece. IL is part of frieze
executed in the fifteenth century by
Lucca della Robia for the cathedral
in Florence. Another cast which is
extremely decorative is called THE
Chariot Race; this is also improved
by being framed.
Few pictures are necessary in bed
rooms, prints and photographs In
narrow black frames being suitable
when the pattern OF the wall paper
is not too pronounced.
In selecting chairs the main thing
is to see that they are comfortable,
which is a harder thing than at first
thought appears. There's nothing
much more unpleasant than going to
a card party or any sort OF an affair
where you sit for a couple OF hours
and finding yourself in an uncom-
Portable chair. The prettiest chairs
are often uncomfortable one way or
another. The seat may be too high,
or the back awkwardly curved so
that corner or roll of the wood
seems to run intOsyour back, or the
arms may be badly placed so that
you can neither rest your arms on
them nor escape them for comforta-
BILE moving. The trouble usually is
that chairs are frequently bought
from the way they look, instead OF a
combination OF the way they look
with the way they feel Those tiny
most uncomfortable things imagin-
able.
Try every chair you buy and take
some one Of normal size along with
you II you're an odd size" individ-
ual. Have some low enough for the
small mortals who visit you to sit
back in and plant their feet firmly
on the floor at the same time, Instead
of dangling over the edge. Have
some deep-seated, big chairs, with
backs well curved, with nothing in
the way of cross supports to press
against your spine. Have a chair or
two with a back high enough to rest
your head against, and II you've
rockers, see that they are not the
treacherous kind, that give an extra
tilt backward suddenly. Try every
chair two or three ways-every sort
Of chair, from the stiff leather COW
cred dining room chairs (which may
be perfectly comfortable in spite of
their apparent stiffness) to the peril
GUS delicate little things with the
spidery legs which appear here and
there in drawing rooms and parlors.
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