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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Winter Curtains and Hangings for a City House




For winter hangings for the city house, there are many points to be considered. The curtains are usually more pretentious and costly. They have less buffeting at open windows, but they have more smoke and city grime. They also actually serve to keep out the cold that filters in through the window cracks. Damask, velours, taffeta, woolen rep and handsome linen are most appropriate for winter city use. They must be made with a formality as to heading, valance and edging. This is true of living, drawing and dining rooms. Cretonne curtains are always pretty and advisable for bedrooms; if one wants a more elaborate and therefore a more expensive hanging, linens are best. The vogue for linen hangings throughout the house is a practical and attractive fashion.



It permits more frequent renewing, and is a gratifying change after the voluminously enveloped window hangings of the Victorian period, which were heavy and unhealthy, their mission seeming to be to crowd out the least breath of fresh air that squeezed in through the window. Befringed, betasseled, be-roped and valanced to the utmost, they acted as a dragon to the fresh wandering little breeze.

If you have them still on hand, take them down and upholster a set of furniture with them, and put in their place something fresh, sanitary and simply made. Viewed from the outside, the incongruity of a formal house of Italian style of architecture with white Swiss muslin curtains and those beruffled, is impossible. As far as is consistent, the curtains should be uniform both as to shape and general style. It is distracting to see half a dozen shapes of hangings on one fa9ade. The quality and color must necessarily differ in the various rooms, but much toward the desired uniformity may be attained by using thin cream curtains against the glass throughout the house.

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