Principles of Home Decoration, With Practical Examples
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- Principles of Home Decoration
- With Practical Examples
- Candace Wheeler
- New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1903 Published February 1903
- Dining-room in "Pennyroyal" (in Mrs. Boudinot Keith's Cottage, Onteora)
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Principles of Home Decoration
- CHAPTER I
- DECORATION AS AN ART
- "Who creates a Home, creates a potent spirit which in turn doth fashion him that fashioned."
- CHAPTER II
- CHARACTER IN HOUSES
- "For the created still doth shadow forth the mind and will which made it. "Thou art the very mould of thy creator."
- CHAPTER III
- BUILDERS' HOUSES
- "Mine own hired house."
- HALL IN CITY HOUSE SHOWING EFFECT OF STAIRCASE DIVIDED AND TURNED TO REAR
- CHAPTER IV
- COLOUR IN HOUSES
- CHAPTER V
- THE LAW OF APPROPRIATENESS
- STENCILED BORDERS FOR BATH-ROOM DECORATION (BY DUNHAM WHEELER)
- STENCILED BORDERS FOR HALLS (BY DUNHAM WHEELER)
- CHAPTER VI
- KITCHENS
- CHAPTER VII
- COLOUR WITH REFERENCE TO LIGHT
- SITTING-ROOM IN "WILD WOOD." ONTEORA (BELONGING TO MISS LUISITA LELAND)
- CHAPTER VIII
- WALLS, CEILINGS, AND FLOORS
- LARGE SITTING-ROOM IN "STAR ROCK" COUNTRY HOUSE
- PAINTED CANVAS FRIEZE
- BUCKRAM FRIEZE FOR DINING-ROOM
- CHAPTER IX
- LOCATION OF THE HOUSE
- CHAPTER X
- CEILINGS
- CHAPTER XI
- FLOORS AND FLOOR-COVERINGS
- SQUARE HALL IN CITY HOUSE
- CHAPTER XII
- DRAPERIES
- CHAPTER XIII
- FURNITURE
- COLONIAL CHAIRS AND SOFA (BELONGING TO MRS. RUTH MCENERY STUART)
- COLONIAL MANTEL AND ENGLISH HOB-GRATE (SITTING-ROOM IN MRS. CANDACE WHEELER'S HOUSE)
- SOFA DESIGNED BY MRS. CANDACE WHEELER FOR NEW LIBRARY IN "WOMAN'S BUILDING," COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION
- RUSTIC SOFA AND TABLES IN "PENNYROYAL" (IN MRS. BOUDINOT KEITH'S COTTAGE, ONTEORA)
- DINING-ROOM IN "STAR ROCK" (COUNTRY HOUSE OF W.E. CONNOR, ESQ., ONTEORA)
- DINING-ROOM IN NEW YORK HOUSE SHOWING LEADED-GLASS WINDOWS
- DINING-ROOM IN NEW YORK HOME SHOWING CARVED WAINSCOTTING AND PAINTED FRIEZE
- GLASS WINDOW BY DORA WHEELER KEITH IN HOUSE AT LAKEWOOD (Belonging to Clarence Roof, Esq.)
- SCREEN BY DORA WHEELER KEITH IN HOUSE AT LAKEWOOD (Belonging to Clarence Roof, Esq.)
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