These chairs would be charming in a small
cottage dining-room, but they might not "wear well" in a city apartment.
[Illustration: BUILT-IN BOOKSHELVES IN A SMALL ROOM]
If your apartment has two small bedrooms, why not use one of them for
two single beds, with a night stand between, and the other for a
dressing-room? Apartment bedrooms are usually small, but charming
furniture may be bought for small rooms. Single beds of mahogany with
slender posts; beds of painted wood with inset panels of cane; white
iron beds, wooden beds painted with quaint designs on a ground of some
soft color--all these are excellent for small rooms. It goes without
saying that a small bedroom should have plain walls, papered or painted
in some soft color. Flowered papers, no matter how delightful they may
be, make a small room seem smaller. Self-toned striped papers and the
"gingham" papers are sometimes very good. The nicest thing about such
modest walls is that you can use gay chintz with them successfully.
Use your bedrooms as sleeping-and dressing-rooms, and nothing more. Do
not keep your sewing things there--a big sewing-basket will add to the
homelike quality of your living-room. Keep the bedroom floor bare,
except for a bedside rug, and possibly one or two other rugs. This, of
course, does not apply to the large bedroom--I am prescribing for the
usual small one.
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