Apartment Decorating IdeasWhenever one attempts to bring something big and cumbersome into a room of small proportions, she has the sensation of disposing with grace and fitness of a white elephant. This is exactly what often happens to the person who, enriched by heirlooms from the big, old-fashioned city or country house, tries to fit them into a set of cubicles called a modern apartment and rented out at so much or so much more a square foot. With such an incubus there is but one course to take in decorating : avoid the apartment with small rooms. Unless one is willing to undergo the expense of a large roomed, duplex apartment, find an old house that has been remodeled into apartments and still retains rooms of large proportions, and install this large furniture against suitable wall and floor space. Fewer rooms will be had than as if one took a modern apartment at the same renting rate, but one can easily adapt one's mode of life to living in three rooms, sleeping in one, living and dining in another and cooking in the kitchenette which, doubtless, would have served for a butter and eggs closet in the old homestead. A living room with a corner reserved for dining is the solution many city dwellers have worked out of the problem of small size apartments. Next Page: Decorating Apartments - Color. |
