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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 551, 2 January 1929, Page 12

Bring your house up-to-date ! Domestic science has made great strides in recent years —enjoy the advantages —increase the value of your property and make yours the HOME BEAUTIFUL

Landscape Gardening

Harmony in Furniture Balance and Symmetry Needed Important Aspect Often Neglected FE day when comfort in furnishing was all that really mattered has gone. A growing section of the public now insists that its ideas of beauty shall be satisfied as well, and this idea is being developed by exhibitions, illustrated journals, specimen rooms at furnishing houses, and so on. But we need to go a step further.

A sitting-room reminiscent of a showroom is devoid of comfort, not because the chairs, for example, are not easy, but because the formality of the arrangement is opposed to the requirements of a home. Also when looking at a model nwm, one has the feeling that it is meant to look at, not to live in. We must evolve rooms, homely rooms, expressive of the people who dwell in them, and to do this we must select suitably and arrange rightly. It is impossible to get the home atmosphere in strictly period rooms, because they express not a person but a period, and we have to refrain from introducing various objects which minister to our comfort and pleasure.