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 following requirements : beauty, stability and suitability.

Do not be influenced when buying to take a thing because it is “the style.” No one who really knows cares whether a thing is “stylish” or not, if it is good. I own several pieces of furniture which are more than a hundred years old, and they are as good in line today as they were when new.

They are good because they were good then, and not for any other reason. Being a hundred years old does not make them good, for if they had not been of excellent lines and well made they would not possess excellent lines nor would they have stood the years of wear. Beauty does not change; tapestries and velours of beautiful colorings are as beautiful today as when first used, for colors which were bad ten, twenty or thirty years ago are just as unattractive today. Good furniture, good floor coverings and good colors do not go “out of fashion.” The lovely things my grandmother owned are lovely now. Has the charm and beauty of the Windsor chair ever diminished? Not one iota. The Windsor chair is made for comfort, the lines wonderfully lovely always.

Advice on buying furniture from a 1924 publication

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