Home Decorating Guide in 2017
Concave Interiors
The custom of appropriate and harmonious treatment of home decorating , interior decorations and suitable furniture , seems to have been in a great measure abandoned during the present century , owing perhaps to the indifference of architects of the time to this subsidiary but necessary portion of their work , or perhaps to a desire for economy , which preferred the cheapness of painted and artificially grained pine-wood , with decorative effects produced by wall papers , to the more solid but expensive though less showy wood-panelling , architectural mouldings , well-made panelled doors and chimney pieces , which one finds , down to quite the end of the last century , even in houses of moderate rentals . Furniture therefore became independent and " beginning to account herself an Art , transgressed her limits "... and " grew to the conceit that it could stand by itself , and , as well as its betters , went a way of its own ."
Interior Design
The interiors , handed over from the builder , as it were , in blank , are filled up from the upholsterer ' s store , the curiosity shop , and the auction room , while a large contribution from the conservatory or the nearest florist gives the finishing touch to a mixture , which characterizes the present taste for furnishing a boudoir or a drawing room .