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ke fussy things, the bedis the place to carry out your ideas, for it permits frills and furbelows that would be taboo in the iving-room . . . such as fussy lamps and frilly cushions
Go into your own bedroofns, into the bedrooms of your friends, and look critically around. Was each piece of furniture, each accessory, chosen with care and thought? Do the rooms; as a whole, express what they should? It is -ii easy to forget that the key-note to a bedroom is peace and restfulness. We come to our bedroom so that we may "come to ourselves" for meditation, for thought, for relaxation and for rest. Anything that we put into a bedroom that takes away the blessed peace that a bedroom should give is wrong. Your living-room should spell hospitality and gaiety, good times and charm. Your sun-room may he bright and cheerful and happy. Your bedroom, while it should be happy, too, should bring with it a restfulness that will make you forget the petty troubles of the every-day world.
In planning bedrooms I would plan, first of all, to eliminate all useless things. The table that you dont know just what to do with, the sewing-machine that could stand just as well some place else, the chair that you hate to discard because it is still good, too often these things appear in bedrooms. Take them away! Take away useless ornaments, photographs of friends you scarcely ever
Too many bedrooms lack a comfortable chair for reading or sewing. And there are small boudoir
chairs, quaint tonnes,
upholstered in chintz and crethat are charming the bedroom
see or think of. pictures that you really never look at. Simplify your bedrooms.
Need I say that, as a usual thing, I do not like sets of furniture? As a rule, they are too commercial and too conventional and you can get more charming and homelike arrangements by combining odd pieces of furniture to suit your own needs. However, bedroom sets are by far the most satisfactory sets of furniture and in many cases are better than selected pieces. There are exceptions to this, too, of course, and Colonial bedrooms, where the pieces are selected and do not belong to a set, are still my favorite of all. In picking sets there are charming little shops where you can buy odd pieces and have them enameled to suit you. This, too, is better than the average set assorted for you by a furniture maim faclurer. However, from among regulation "commercial" bedroom sets you can find many that are \j^s most charming and
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possible to achieve a sense of luxury in to spend. The bedroom below is the
bedroom, but only when there is unlimited n ister bedroom in Tom Mix's California home
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