If you consider the batten D of Figure [129A] as the top of the fly loft, and batten C as the top of the curtain, the lines K are correctly placed to raise the curtain until C comes in contact with the pulleys L. The whole frame will have then been drawn up this distance, and it is only necessary to have batten D high enough to permit of the curtain being drawn out of sight.
We show the hand line E on Figures [131] and [127A] to illustrate its position if the curtains should be manipulated by hand without a counter weight, but for permanent curtains the plan of 129 A, with the continuous operating line, will be found much better.
LOUIS XVI
LOUIS XIV
INTERIOR · GROUPING. COSEY · CORNERS. WALL-HANGINGS
That there is a knack in the selection and disposition of furniture beyond the haphazard placing of odd pieces inside four walls is a fact admitted by housekeepers generally. That this knack is possessed in a very limited degree by the average housekeeper is impressed again and again on the mind of the observant decorator.
We have heard the statement that houses decorated and furnished by the professional decorator lack that something—that indefinable charm—which can only be imparted by the touch of the homemaker woman. In other words, that man can make houses but woman makes homes. This is beautiful as a theory, but as a matter of fact the average drawing-room—woman’s particular care—contains enough incongruities to shock the artistic sense of the most liberal-minded of decorators.