ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the issue of beauty in the home that indicates author's engagement with the issue of domestic aesthetics. In varying fields of work is a strong current of improvement, in household construction, furnishing, and decoration; and new employments continually appear wherein the more cultured few apply their talents to the selection and arrangement of “artistic interiors” ready-made for the purchaser. A cottage is also capable of giving the sense of beauty; especially an old thatch-roofed cottage; mossy, mouldy, leaky, damp. The cottage is an undifferentiated home; it is primarily a kitchen – with a bedroom or two added – or included! Small primitive houses, like the white, square, flat-roofed dwellings of Algiers, group beautifully, or, taken singly, give a good bit of white against blue fire, behind green foliage. The development of art, like the development of industry, requires the specialisation, the life-long devotion, impossible to the arbitrary combinations of home life.
