Boys Bedrooms, Boys Bedrooom Furniture Ideas

Boys Bedrooms, Boys Bedrooom Furniture Ideas

For the boy's room choose furniture of the simplest and strongest construction. Simple oak furniture and leather upholstery is in good taste and gives good service. The chief effort of decoration and room decor should be directed toward eliminating ornament and furthering a sense of orderliness. A couch should be provided on which the boy can throw himself down to read without mussing up the bed and soiling it with his dirty boots. If he is once permitted to feel that the bed can be sprawled on and disarranged and dirtied with impunity, he will never learn to keep a clean, tidy room.

Mission furniture finds its proper place in the boy's room. Its use should be restricted to that and to camps. Unfortunately, it has invaded almost every room of the house with the result that the appreciation of the beauty of a graceful line has been very much lost to Americans. Craftsman and Mission furniture is unquestionably sturdy and solid in construction and simple in line, but it lacks the fineness and subtlety that an object of decorative value should possess. Its universality is like using plain tan paper in every room, it is safe but deadly uninteresting and inartistic. Many an otherwise charming, small room in a country house has been ruined by a stupidly heavy Mission center table and a leather upholstered davenport and armchair. Mission furniture, being heavy in structure and large in scale, requires an appropriate background, and the average sitting-room or bedroom does not furnish this.

Bureau arrangement in a room for two boys.

An excellent arrangement for a young man's room for two boys is the use of two inexpensive, small bureaus with a cheval glass between. Thus they have plenty of room in the bureaus for a large supply of shirts and collars and can see their full length in the glass. A pair of wooden sconces may be made to match the ornamentation on the top of the glass, and fitted with electric lights. Such an arrangement is admirable where space is limited, as, for example, in a country or seashore cottage.

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