THE PROBLEM 
O 
FURNITURE 
ARRANGEMENT 
A chair adjacent to the tea table suggests the utility 
of this corner 
HOW TO PLAN THE DISPOSITION OF 
FURNITURE—THE POSITION OF VA¬ 
RIOUS ARTICLES AND THEIR BEAR¬ 
ING ON THE APPEARANCE AND 
CONVENIENCE OF ROOMS 
by Abbot McClure and Harold 
Donaldson Eberlein 
The arm chair invites the visitor to a corner where he 
may read until the hostess arrives 
H AVE you ever experienced a household moving? If so, 
have you ever taken a hand in arranging the furniture in 
your new house or apartment? If you have done so, you prob¬ 
ably realize the difficulty of the situation confronting anyone 
obliged to do the same thing. 
It is almost always the same. Your furniture, divorced from 
its old surroundings, thrust promiscuously into any chance place 
by the moving men, rebels at the treatment and causes you end¬ 
less troubles. To begin with, everything seems to have been left 
in the wrong place, so that it has to be carried to another part of 
the house, and then, when you get it there, it refuses to go into 
the place you have selected for it either because it will not fit or 
else because it seems so utterly out of keeping with its new sur¬ 
roundings. 
The ideal way, of course, would be to have one piece of furni¬ 
ture at a time brought from some imaginary storehouse so that 
you might try it around in various places till you were quite 
suited, without the embarrassment of sundry more pieces follow¬ 
ing close behind. Then, when you had it arranged to your liking, 
you could send for the next piece, and so on. 
Unfortunately, the only people for whom this leisurely ideal is 
possible of realization are those who go into new quarters with 
practically no furniture and gradually acquire piece by piece as 
desirable articles present themselves and occasion offers. Or- 
Make some central point of interest the situation of a group arrangement. Here the two little tables, flanking the fireplace serve a distinct purpose, and the other furniture is. 
readily serviceable for the assembling of guests into a group where conversation is facilitated and the benefits of the fire enjoyed 
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