The Bedroom And Boudoir | by Lady Barker
Too much attention can scarcely be expended on our sleeping rooms in order that we may have them wholesome, convenient and cheerful. It is impossible to over-estimate the value of refreshing sleep to busy people, particularly to those who are obliged to do much brainwork. In the following pages will, we hope, be found many hints with regard to the sanitary as well as the ornamental treatment of the bedroom.
| Title | The Bedroom And Boudoir |
| Author | Lady Barker |
| Publisher | Macmillan And Co. |
| Year | 1878 |
| Copyright | 1878, Macmillan And Co. |
| Amazon | The Bedroom And The Boudoir |
Chapter I. An Ideal Bed-Room. - Its Walls- IT is only too easy to shock some people, and at the risk of shocking many of my readers at the outset, I must declare that very few bed-rooms are so built and furnished as to remain thoroughly sweet,...
- An Ideal Bed-Room. - Its Walls. Part 2
- That was because the housemaid had been taught how to wipe dust off and carry it bodily away, not merely, as Miss Nightingale complains, to disturb it from the place where it had comfortably settled i...
- An Ideal Bed-Room. - Its Walls. Part 3
- But in the country it is every one's own fault if they have not a lovely bedroom. If it be low, then-let the paper be suitable - something which will not dwarf the room. I know a rural bedroom with a ...
- Chapter II. Carpets And Draperies
- IN the very old-fashioned, stately rooms of Queen Anne's reign the carpeting was doled out in small proportions, and a somewhat comfortless air must have prevailed where an expanse of floor was covere...
- Carpets And Draperies. Continued
- All the moral I want to draw from this geographical digression is that I can assert from my own experience - which after all is the only true standpoint of assertion - that it is possible to have real...
- Chapter III. Beds And Bedding
- WHEN we discuss a bedroom, the bed ought certainly to be the first thing considered. Here at least, is a great improvement within even the last forty or fifty years. Where are now those awful four-pos...
- Beds And Bedding. Continued
- But there is one thing I want to say most emphatically, and that is that I have met with greater dirt and discomfort, worse furniture, more comfortless beds (I will say nothing of the vile-ness of the...
- Chapter IV. Wardrobes And Cupboards
- SOMETIMES a room has to play the part of both bedroom and boudoir, and then it is of importance what form the garde-robes shall assume. Fortunately there are few articles of furniture on which more ...
- Chapter V. Fire And Water
- PERHAPS the part of any room which is most often taken out of, or put beyond the decorative hands of its owner, is the fireplace. And yet, though it is one of the most salient features in any English ...
- Chapter VI. The Toilet
- THERE is no prettier object in either bedroom or boudoir than the spot where the toilet stands displayed. Whether it be a shrine a la Duchesse (Fig. 19) or the simplest form of support for a mirror,...
- Chapter VII. Odds And Ends Of Decoration
- IT seems a pity that sofas and chairs made of straw or bamboo should not be more used than they are. I mean, used as they come from the maker's hands, not painted or gilded, and becushioned and bedize...
- Chapter VIII. The Sick-Room
- HOWEVER skilfully designed the arrangements of a house may appear to be, however sumptuously decorated and furnished its rooms, it is impossible to know whether a great law of common sense and practic...
- The Sick-Room. Part 2
- Later, as he grew better, and the weary eyes craved for colour, I found it necessary to pretend to be busy dressing dolls or making pincushions, to afford myself an excuse for a little heap of brighte...
- The Sick-Room. Part 3
- Few people realise how extraordinarily keen the sense of smell becomes in illness, and how the faint ghost of a possible appetite may be turned into absolute loathing by the smell of a cup of beef-tea...
- Chapter IX. The Spare Room
- PERHAPS the kindliest and wisest advice with regard to a spare room, would be the same as Punch's famous counsel to young people about to marry - a short and emphatic Don't. In a large country house...
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