The Complete Home

The Complete Home

Taste and expedienceResponsibilitiesRenting, buying or buildingLocationCity or countryRenunciationsSchools and churchesTransportationThe butcher, the baker, and the candlestick makerThe home acreComparative cost in rentingThe location senseSize of lotPositionOutlook and inlookTreesIncome and expenditureStyleSizePlans for buildingNecessary roomsThe sick roomRoom to entertainThe "living room"The dining room and kitchenThe sleeping roomsThinking it out The necessity of good floorsMaterial and cost of layingOrnamental flooringWaxed, varnished, and oiled floorsCarpets, linoleum, and matsThe stairwayRugsOriental rugsKitchen and upper floorsMatting and cardoman clothUses of the decoratorWood in decorationPanels and plasterThe beamed ceilingPaint, paper, and calcimineShades and curtainsLeaded panes and casementsStorm windows Blessed indeed are they who are free to choose where and how they shall live. Still more blessed are they who give abundant thought to their choice, for they may not wear the sackcloth of discomfort nor scatter the ashes of burned money. Most of us have a theory of what the home should be, but it is stowed away with the wedding gifts of fine linen that are cherished for our permanent abode. We believe in harmony of surroundings, but after living, within a period of ten years or so, in seven different apartments with seven different arrangements of rooms and seven different schemes of decoration, we lose interest in suiting one thing to another. Harmony comes to mean simply good terms with the janitor. Or if (being beginners) we have some such prospect of nomadic living facing us, and we are at all knowing, we realize the utter helplessness of demonstrating our good taste, purchase any bits of furniture that a vagrant fancy may fasten upon, and give space to whatever gimcracks our friends may foist upon us, trusting that in the whirligig of removals the plush rocker, the mission table, and the brass parlor stand may each find itself in harmony with something else at one time or another. Some day we shall be freed from the tyranny of these conditions and then! ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 16650
Author: Rippey, Sarah Cory
Release Date: Sep 4, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Laughlin, Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth), 1873-1941