It serves so
many purposes. In my own house my boudoir is also my sitting-room, and I
have a large Louis XV day bed there which may be used by an overnight
guest if necessary. In a small house the boudoir fitted with a day bed
becomes a guest-room on occasion. I always put two or three of these day
beds in any country house I am doing, because I have found them so
admirable and useful in my own house.
As you will see by the photographs, this bed in no way resembles an
ordinary bed in the daytime, and it seems to me to be a much better
solution of the extra-bed problem than the mechanical folding-bed, which
is always hideous and usually dangerous. A good day bed may be designed
to fit into any room. This one of mine is of carved walnut, a very
graceful one that I found in France.
In a small sitting-room in an uptown house, an illustration of which is
shown, I had a day bed made of white wood that was painted to match the
chintzes of the room. The mattress and springs were covered with a bird
chintz on a mauve ground, and the pillows were all covered with the same
stuff. The frame of the bed was painted cream and decorated with a dull
green line and small garlands of flowers extracted from the design of
the chintz. When the mattress and springs have been properly covered
with damask, or chintz, or whatever you choose to use, there is no
suggestion of the ordinary bed.
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