IN THE enthralling business of furnishing her home, almost every woman looks forward expectantly to the exact moment when she can afford to buy her sofa. For rarely can a living room start life successfully without this furniture piece of greatest comfort, which may be counted on to yield untold hours of cozy enjoyment before [...]

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1920’s Books on Beading, Fashion, Millinery, and Drapery
We have recently published a series of books which consist of compilations of 1920’s material on the above subjects. These are available for download over the Internet, but most require a fast Internet connection due to large file sizes caused by the number of illustrations they contain.
There are [...]

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If, after having been built with great respect for harmony and appropriateness, the bungalow should be filled with the usual collection of badly designed and inadequate furniture, the ensemble would be distressing, and the thought involved in the structure of the building thrown away.
The term furniture implies, per se, movable portions of the building, and, [...]

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ONE of the details of requirements in connection with the competition which has resulted in the series of designs presented in this book, is that the proposed dwelling should be for an American family of moderate means but desiring home surroundings in cultivated taste and comfort. It is plainly evident that a definite problem in [...]

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FURNISHING THE SMALL HOME: By Hettie Rhoda Meade
MOST psychologists agree that the greatest influence on our lives is environment—that we react directly to our immediate surroundings. If this be true, how important it would seem to be that our homes be planned to bring out the best that is in us.
A large part of the [...]

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“Decorative Draperies and Upholstery” by Edward Thorne was first published in 1929 and contains 64 stunning inspirational illustrations.
We have just added a couple of sections from the book to our web-site. These relate to the history of drapery, and living room drapes.
At this stage there are no illustrations but the different decorative schemes are well described [...]

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Many homes of the twenties were decorated in the Arts & Crafts style, variations of traditional Georgian and Colonial styles, or Art Moderne which embraced the marvels of the Machine Age of the 1920’s and 1930’s.
Movies had a big influence on homes by giving ordinary people a glimpse of the interiors of homes of the rich and famous, [...]

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