Selecting Furniture: The Essentials By the time one comes to choose the furniture for a room, the room's purpose, its completed walls and floor coverings should be so well and thoroughly visualized that the choice of furniture will be merely the selection of the best out of several possibilities. Of course, the quality, shape and color of furniture varies, and the quantity will as well, but for most rooms there are simple formulas to observe. Once the bare essentials of the room are understood, the elaboration both in quantity and quality of pieces can readily follow. The smallest, most modest hall, for example, will contain a table against the wall, a mirror, a straight back chair and a serviceable rug. From this simple scheme of the requisites may be developed a pair of console tables with mirrors above, a pair of formal straight back chairs, a wooden or stone bench, settle or settee, and a chest with tapestry above and torcheres on either side. Thus the simple formula of selecting furniture is elaborated according to the size of the room and the size of one's purse. From the essentials for a hall we could go on to the essentials for a living-hall, but here we are encroaching on living room furniture arrangement. |
