Archive for the 'Furniture' Category

Adding Cheer and Color to a Dining Room Part4

To Add Cheer and Color
WHERE the dining room happens to be gloomy, with insufficient light and an uninviting outlook, much can be done to add cheer and color by the use of painted furniture and brilliant draperies against light tinted walls. One effective method of furnishing such a room would be by the use of [...]

Dining Room Console Part 3

A Console Is Decorative
THE dining room should not serve, as it so often does, as a show room for cut glass, china, curios and souvenirs. This is one of the reasons why the console or the pair of consoles, when space permits, and a quaint old lowboy to hold the linen have a better place [...]

Choosing Dining Room Chairs Part 2

Appropriate Dining Room Chairs
THE dining room chairs at the left and in the middle of the group shown on this page are appropriate and beautiful designs to be used with any type of gate-leg table or the plainer makes of refectory tables now in vogue for the combination dining and living room. There are a [...]

Selecting Dining Room Furniture Part 1

SINCE the small house and apartment have become the rule instead of the exception, many of the dining rooms in our modern country or suburban homes and in our larger cities are of such limited proportions that the task of finding suitable furnishings has become a difficult problem. The old conventional and ponderous ten-piece dining [...]

How to Buy Furniture

FURNISHINGS, whether furniture - or rugs or hangings, are made and offered for sale, in excellent designs, patterns and colors, which will adapt themselves to any standard of decoration, simple or elaborate. Take into consideration, first, how much money it is expedient to use, and decide to purchase only the things which will meet the [...]

Duncan Phyfe Furnishings Part 3

ALL the modern furniture in the living room pictured has been chosen because of its distinct Duncan Phyfe characteristics, or else for its suitability for blending harmoniously with the modem renditions of this style. The sofa has real distinction, a swing and flare of line ennobled by its delicately carved frame of mahogany and its [...]

Earmarks of the Duncan Phyfe Style Part 2

WHILE Duncan Phyfe did a great deal of completely original work, he was influenced very strongly by Hepplewhite and Sheraton, though more especially the latter. Many of Phyfe’s pieces show the same straight, narrow, high-shouldered effect that proved one of the charms of the Sheraton style. In his original work he developed a use of [...]

Duncan Phyfe Furniture Part 1

ANYONE who is fortunate enough to own some old piece of Duncan Phyfe furniture will be sure to tell you at once that it has more real personality than any other furniture he owns. There is a certain delicate elegance in the swing and flare of such pieces of “gentleman mahogany” which allows them to [...]

Sofas of Distinction Part 3

A very good example of fine lines in an unpretentious sofa may be found in the two-seat model covered in dark-grounded cretonne here shown in the three-quarter size, but obtainable also in the larger style. There is a fineness of proportion and a lack of overweight, emphasized by such desirable details as the thin rolled [...]

Sofas of Distinction Part 2

In choosing a sofa the size of the room must be considered, as well as the scale of the other furniture with which it is to be used. If space must be conserved there is no better way of doing it than by selecting a sofa of three-quarter size, which is more than adequate for [...]