HONEST DECORATION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 127, 21 February 1908, Page 3

HONEST DECORATION.

To furnish a house in/good taste at.a moderate; price is 'the wish, of -nino women out often/. ■ The,' tenth/.possibly . does . hot have to/think;.of -cost; the., nine, must... .'lt is to the nine that ; we' would'.spealv. • .. ;If. f,he. housekeeper of limited means ,couhi. .realise- ihit, a"little: money spent :in-.'buying the;.'best. is. a', : far wiser expenditure than twice the amount .spent ;in buying/the: spurious, ■ the. first 'rudiments of good• decoration would be mastered.; Buy the best, if. only a-little-;-.buy-slowly; buy-for next-year-rather than . for, to-day; .and seek- lasting values. This'.is , a'lvr ajge of-.'clever .'imitations; of 'ingenious : shams which please i ;:tho :eyo>:and niako a .-'strong .'appeal'-, to 'tho jpocketbook. In-'; no field ;is there'' a greater opportunity 'for 'deception' than : 'in ! that of house-decora-tion.; And ,many of' the shams, 1 it must ,bo . admitted, are .exceedingly attractive-on • the ■surface. ■ /Many; ■ of course, are atrocious, 'but; : theso fare: .not so',dangerous. • '■•■■ /.' . '• The real' danger, lies in cheap imitations of' good. things. •; .They afford' a shoddy .'substitute- ;for . the genuine ■ article; and their low. figure • tempts tile would-be buyer with a beguiling, false' economy. 'They' are in reality- dear 'at. any; price: "■'■• They' 'are .the paste diamonds of tho decorating world. , One room furnished with tho genuine is worth a house full of artistic shanis." Therefore we would say to the amateur decorator', turn your back, upon the. things which produce : merely an effect., /Furnishing a house is an, education' in itself,; and ' education along' all. lines must progress slowly. To watch a house-grow is a; supreme satisfaction ; to. buy 'one thing at a ."time for a definite need and .place is tho realjoy of making a home./ Haste has no part 'in the -matter. Haste 'may, produce'a house, but-never a-home.—"House Beautiful." ■ - ,