The Bedroom and Boudoir

However skilfully designed the arrangements of a house may appear to be, however sumptuously decorated and furnished its rooms, it is impossible to know whether a great law of c...

It is only too easy to shock some people, and at the risk of shocking many of my readers at the outset, I must declare that very few bed-rooms are so built and furnished as to r...

When we discuss a bed-room, the bed ought certainly to be the first thing considered. Here at least, is a great improvement within even the last forty or fifty years. Where are...

In the very old-fashioned, stately rooms of Queen Anne's reign the carpeting was doled out in small proportions, and a somewhat comfortless air must have prevailed where an expa...

Perhaps the kindliest and wisest advice with regard to a spare room, would be the same as _Punch's_ famous counsel to young people about to marry--a short and emphatic "Don't."...

Perhaps the part of any room which is most often taken out of, or put beyond the decorative hands of its owner, is the fireplace. And yet, though it is one of the most salient f...

Sometimes a room has to play the part of both bed-room and boudoir, and then it is of importance what form the "_garde-robes_" shall assume. Fortunately there are few articles o...

It seems a pity that sofas and chairs made of straw or bamboo should not be more used than they are. I mean, used as they come from the maker's hands, _not_ painted or gilded, a...

There is no prettier object in either bed-room or boudoir than the spot where "the toilet stands displayed." Whether it be a shrine _à la Duchesse_ (Fig. 19) or the simplest for...