Bedroom Furnishing 203 



Blue and white or pale green and white may be 

 used as color- schemes for very sunny bedrooms, 

 yellow or pink and white for less sunny ones. 

 One or two single, white, enamelled iron bed- 

 steads, a washstand, a bureau or a chest of 

 drawers with glass above, two or three low, light 

 chairs, and a table or desk at which one may 

 write, is an ample furnishing, if there be a good 

 closet or wardrobe. The rug need be only large 

 enough to cover the space in front of the bed, 

 bureau, and stand, if the floor be well matched 

 and painted or oiled. A bedroom should give 

 the impression of spotlessness and comfort; 

 everything should be washable or cleanable ; un- 

 less used also as a sitting room, it should not 

 have a superfluous article in it. Mats, bric- 

 a-brac, even many pictures, are quite out of 

 place. 



Since cost, styles and tastes differ so widely 

 in different localities, no detailed directions can 

 or should be given that will be generally appli- 

 cable. If the principles illustrated in this chap- 

 ter be correct, they will serve to guide and to 

 develop the taste of many different kinds of 

 persons. 



