The Simple Home
The Simple Home
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It is far better to have no ornament than to have it either badly designed or wrongly placed. We sometimes see shingle houses with a square piece of machine carving of commonplace design to relieve the monotony of a plain wall surface. The bare wall would have been inoffensive, but the ornament spoils the sim- plicity and effectiveness of the entire house. Ornament should grow out of the construction, and should always be an individual expression adapted to the particular space it is to fill. T...hus all machine-turned moldings, sawed-out brackets, or other mechanical devices for ornament, may well be rigorously excluded.
As the life of the home centers about the fireplace, this [32] THE BUILDING OF THE HOME may appropriately be the most beautiful feature of a room. Let its ornamentation be wholly individual and hand wrought. Carved corbels, supporting a plain shelf, or some good conventional form done in terra-cotta or tiling, may be used to advantage ; but if something cannot be made for that particular spot, be content with a good, generous fireplace of the rough, richly colored clinker brick or of pressed brick, or big tiles.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It is far better to have no ornament than to have it either badly designed or wrongly placed. We sometimes see shingle houses with a square piece of machine carving of commonplace design to relieve the monotony of a plain wall surface. The bare wall would have been inoffensive, but the ornament spoils the sim- plicity and effectiveness of the entire house. Ornament should grow out of the construction, and should always be an individual expression adapted to the particular space it is to fill. T...hus all machine-turned moldings, sawed-out brackets, or other mechanical devices for ornament, may well be rigorously excluded.
As the life of the home centers about the fireplace, this [32] THE BUILDING OF THE HOME may appropriately be the most beautiful feature of a room. Let its ornamentation be wholly individual and hand wrought. Carved corbels, supporting a plain shelf, or some good conventional form done in terra-cotta or tiling, may be used to advantage ; but if something cannot be made for that particular spot, be content with a good, generous fireplace of the rough, richly colored clinker brick or of pressed brick, or big tiles.
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