June 17, 2005
Homemaking Extract Chapter Four
Furnishing for Comfort and Taste
When you gaze at the empty rooms of your new home, your mind is no doubt busy forming pictures of what it will be like when it is furnished. But pretty pictures are not enough. Your furnishing budget needs careful planning.
One of the first things to do is decide how many rooms you are going to furnish. If you are taking over a house to begin with, it is not always wise to furnish it complete. Later on, you may find that you would like to use one of the upstairs bedrooms as a little 'den' for your husband, or for a sewing room for yourself, so it is always a good plan to leave the rooms which will not be required for the time being.
Colour Schemes
It is difficult to decide whether the question of colour schemes should come before or after the question of furniture buying. Some people like to select furniture first and have their houses decorated to match, but others - perhaps wisely - select their colour schemes first. Here is a suggested colour scheme:
Sitting Room in Fawn, Blue and Brown
Walls: Light fawn
Paintwork: Dark oak
Curtains: Fawn and blue tapestry or deep blue velvet
Carpet: Plain deep fawn to go with tapestry curtains or a patterned carpet in fawn and blue to go with the self-coloured curtains
Upholstery: Fawn background with bold blue pattern
Light Shades: A warm orange-brown. (Avoid blue light shades as they give off a poor light)
Accessories: Orange-brown, blue, fawn and deep brown
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