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Creating the Sense of Space in a Small Room 
(Continued from page 62) 
whatever. The rooms that are used 
at night for sleeping purposes are 
provided with enormous closets with 
doors which revolve on a center axis. 
Against these, on one side, a bed is 
fastened, which, when not in use, 
lodges with all its bedding complete, 
inside the closet, and which can be 
turned around at night and lowered 
1 without difficulty on to the floor of 
the room. Inside this closet, also, 
are a dressing table, a mirror, with 
the necessary electric light, and very 
often a window, so that the toilet is 
performed outside the sleeping cham¬ 
ber, which need have no bedroom 
furniture whatever, and may be 
equipped exactly like an additional 
living-room. A bed of this sort rep¬ 
resents a considerable advance over 
the old-fashioned folding bed, for it 
may be in all essential respects ex¬ 
actly like the usual wooden bedstead 
with similar bedding, etc. The sys¬ 
tem does not make any provision, 
however, for the people who really 
enjoy bedrooms and delight in fur¬ 
nishing them attractively, and who 
are taking advantage of the gay col¬ 
ors and pleasing designs which are 
now being offered in such profusion 
for bedroom use. 
Choosing the Furniture 
Whether or not one proceeds to 
the introduction of particular de¬ 
vices, like the one just mentioned, 
one must realize that perhaps the 
most important element in creating a 
sense of space is that the furniture 
should be limited in size. Some 
people, in moving from a large house 
into a small apartment, or small 
house, provide themselves with a 
smaller number of equally large 
tables and chairs. The rooms of 
these folk are not apt to appear 
crowded, but empty. 
A wiser procedure would be the 
adoption of smaller pieces of furni¬ 
ture and a larger number of them, 
for an effect of size can be created 
in a small room by having in it a 
number of small tables and chairs and 
lamps and benches or settees, all of 
which take up a very limited amount 
of space, but provide accommodation 
for numerous guests. A small chair 
can be made very nearly as com¬ 
fortable, if not quite as luxurious, as 
a large one, and some of the caned 
and carved wood pieces of the pres¬ 
ent day are much more attractive 
than the heavily upholstered ones 
which are inherited from another 
generation. Of course, there are cer¬ 
tain pieces of furniture which un- 
i questionably require room. One of 
them is the overstaffed davenport; 
another, the comfortable table desk. 
The only answer to the demand for 
these is that they should be used 
either in a fairly large room with 
plenty of smaller furniture, or in an 
extra room entirely by themselves, 
where their function is utilitarian 
rather than decorative. 
Some Concrete Examples 
When we examine the photographs 
which accompany this paper, we find 
illustrated in them certain of the 
points I have suggested. For ex¬ 
ample, the panelled living-room con¬ 
tains a small grand piano and a large 
overstuffed sofa. But outside of 
these two pieces, the dozen or more 
other articles of furniture are cf 
fairly diminutive area. The over¬ 
stuffed armchair is not very large. 
The kidney shaped desk is compara¬ 
tively small. The tables are small 
and the chairs, although all of them 
are comfortable, are far from heavy. 
In this room, a valance is resorted 
to because its use is indicated, not 
only by the fact that the ceiling is 
a good height, but also because of 
the recessed simple window, the top 
of which requires a special treatment 
not necessary in most flat windows. I 
The walls of the room are finished 
in a glazed ivory enamel, giving the 
effect of wood from floor to ceiling, 
although, as a matter of fact, they 
are only made up of small oblongs of 
wood moulding placed directly on the 
plaster. Certain of the pieces are 
covered in a tapestry of many colors; 
others in tan velvet; still others in 
mulberry velvet; while here and there 
are bits of black and touches of blue, 
introduced, for example, in the Cloi¬ 
sonne vases on the mantel, in the 
inset painting over the mantel, in the 
tassels of the lamp shade and the 
polychrome effect administered to 
the lamp, in the sofa pillows and 
table cover, in the decoration applied 
to the kidney desk table, and in the 
rug. The effect of size is, I think, 
very apparent. 
In the tiny boudoir furnished in 
the style of the Regency, with pieces 
painted in soft green, striped in black, 
one finds furniture small enough to 
go into almost any room with sensible 
effect. The upright tan and green 
striped taffeta over curtains are sim¬ 
ple and straight. The double sash 
curtains of casement cloth have more 
vertical suggestion than horizontal. 
The tall pieces in the room are more 
apparent than the squatty elements. 
Green is, of course, the pervading 
color, but the rug and walls are of 
deep ivory and the pillows have a 
number of hues. 
An Adam Dining-room 
Again in the Adam dining-room, 
a sense of space is created by the 
use of small pieces. The size of the 
silver closet is indeed somewhat ex¬ 
aggerated by the photograph, but the 
table, the chairs and the sideboard 
appear as they are—serviceable, but 
not emphatic. Out of the picture are 
the serving table and the remainder 
of the chairs, as well as the striped 
velvet curtains of black and two tones 
of tan. The rug is black with the 
two tans in the border; the chairs 
are old rose. The silk shades cover 
the hideous lighting fixture provided 
by the apartment. The only wall 
decoration in the room, outside of the 
very rough stippled finish of the 
panels, is the flower painting which 
hangs over the sideboard. Economy 
of size in the manufacture of the 
chairs was afforded by the fact that, 
except for the legs, no woodwork is 
visible, the chairs being upholstered 
entirely in velvet with small gold 
nails, so that every inch of space 
is used. 
It may seem that the one wall 
shown in the Louis XVI bedroom is 
rather under furnished, but, as a 
matter of fact, it has all that is 
needful for the room, except the beds 
which are on the other side, the 
valet chiffonier, somno and chaise 
longue, all of which appear in the 
second photograph. Here we have 
rose curtains trimmed with antique 
gold laces, cords and tassels, and rose 
casement curtains, because the rose 
of the room is not very colorful. 
To prevent an overdose of this one 
tone, however, the beds are treated 
with lace spreads instead of taffeta 
ones. The chaise longue and chairs 
are covered in a stripe of yellow 
with a little rose. 
(Continued on page 66) 
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