ABSTRACT
Carpets are a comparatively easy affair – the market is flooded with every description of Oriental make, both old and new, the former more expensive, but incomparably better than the latter, both in colour and quality. For bedrooms there are cheap and fairly good woven carpets in unobtrusive colouring and simple ‘all over’ patterns. In the department of crockery, both for table and bedroom use, vulgarity is rampant, almost by accident, may be found a reproduction of some simple and good old form. Furniture is considerably less costly than either ancient specimens or new things from Tottenham Court Road. It is a noteworthy fact that of all furniture, the antique is the most accommodating. The golden rule is to avoid overcrowding, and rather have one good thing than dozen indifferent ones. A crowd of trashy antiquities makes a house look like a second-rate curiosity shop.
