SOME DON'TS IN DECORATIO .

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue XIV, 7 April 1894, Page 327

SOME DON'TS IN DECORATIO .

Don't put extra heavy drapery in small rooms. Don’t overload your rooms with furniture and biic a-brae. Don’t place an easel with a large picture thereon in the middle of the parlour floor. Don't place a large wooden pedestal with a group of statuary between the easel and the further corner. Don’t place upon a small table a delicate piece of Italian statuary covered with a canopy of glass. Don’t have a big Chinese porcelain jar in a room only four times the width of the jar. Don’t use a table lamp of herculean proportions on a small table or in a small room. Give the eye space as well the lungs. Space in lhe centie of the room is as precious as the most costly piece of furniture, for it enriches all the furnishings. Every apartment should convey the feeling of use rather than the idea that it is a room for the exhibition of furniture.