Apartment Furniture

Apartment Furniture

It follows, as a rule, that the larger pieces of furniture should not be placed in the center of an apartment room; in fact, with limited space, no furniture at all should be placed in the center of the room.

If the furniture is placed flat against the wall a stiff and uninteresting effect results. This is overcome by arranging the furniture in groups, always picturing two or three people bent on a cosy, intimate conversation. A small, low table to hold books, sewing or tea, will form the center of the group and the chairs can be arranged around it. These small tables or benches may be placed at any angle, but, as a rule, apartment furniture should be placed parallel with the wall. This position also elongates the appearance of the room. The pieces of long narrow furniture should be placed in the direction one wishes to accent. If one has a long narrow 1199 ]

room, place the couch and long table crosswise to accent their length. In a bedroom this is not always a convenient arrangement, but if the beds can be placed crosswise, the length of the room will seemingly be cut off and made wider. The use of a large mirror on the long side of a wall will work wonders in broadening a room.

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