Don't try to have furniture in a hall of this kind. A
small table near the front door, a good tile for umbrellas, etc., a good
mirror--that is all. Perhaps a place for coats and hats, but some halls
are too narrow for a card table.
The apartment with a dining-room entirely separated from the living-room
is very unusual, therefore I am hoping that you will apply all that I
have said about the treatment of your living-room to your dining-room as
well. People who live in apartments are very foolish if they cut off a
room so little used as a dining-room and furnish it as if it belonged to
a huge house. Why not make it a dining-and book-room, using the big
table for reading, between meals, and having your bookshelves so built
that they will be in harmony with your china shelves? Keep all your
glass and silver and china in the kitchen, or butler's pantry, and
display only the excellent things--the old china, the pewter tankard,
the brass caddy, and so forth,--in the dining-room.
However, if you have a real dining-room in your apartment, do try to
have chairs that will be comfortable, for you can't afford to have
uncomfortable things in so small a space! Windsor chairs and rush bottom
chairs are best of all for a simple dining-room, I think, though the
revival of painted furniture has brought about a new interest in the old
flare-back chairs, painted with dull, soft colored posies on a ground of
dull green or gray or black.
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