THE ARTISTIC SITTING ROOM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 260, 27 July 1908, Page 5

THE ARTISTIC SITTING ROOM.

"With the passing of the drawing-room in . many of the rrfOst attractive cottage homes comes a smalH revolution in .the matter of furnishing Australian papor). Many ' housewives —and to their credit bo it spoken —are recognising'the foil}' of giving up tho best room in .the. house to tile guest, • who mnp.'ly -lingers/,in it for an occasional halfhour. Toj.usio the. old fashioned , drawingroom generally was manifestly impossible. '..." The furniture;,was too flimsy, for masculine usage, and no provision was mado for feminine comfortfe' in the best sense of tho word. At the moment brown is tho most popular colour in the furnishing.of.tho sitting-room. . Oikl quite-'Beautiful-room'lias lately been done in a shade of mole combined with electric blue, the blue being introduced in curtain and table cloth borders and cushions. A ' rather'light'shade of dark-brown in another room is relieved'by a soft tone of red, while peacock bliio in connection with a sort of chcstn.ut colour suggests further variations. The' rtiaterials used are generally serge or linen, but women with a limited supply of monev have achieved some ; excellent ofl'ects with and the coarsest and cheapest sheeting, dyed at a cost of; a few shillings. The curtains in these rooms aro invariably short, and tho furniture on the plain, serviceable and artistic lines, - <