Furnishing the Home of Good Taste by Lucy Abbot Throop is an informative and comprehensive guide for anyone looking to decorate their home with style and elegance. Throop provides detailed advice on everything from color schemes to furniture choices, making it easy for readers to create a beautiful and cohesive interior design scheme.
What sets this book apart is its emphasis on practicality and functionality. Throop acknowledges that a well-designed home should not only look good, but also be comfortable and livable. With this in mind, she offers tips on how to arrange furniture to maximize space, as well as ideas for incorporating storage solutions into your design.
Throop's writing style is clear and accessible, making it easy for readers of all experience levels to understand and implement her advice. The book is also filled with beautiful illustrations and photographs that showcase Throop's design principles in action.
Overall, Furnishing the Home of Good Taste is a must-read for anyone looking to create a stylish and inviting home. Whether you're a seasoned decorator or a novice looking to spruce up your space, Throop's advice is sure to inspire and guide you in creating a home that is both beautiful and functional.
Book Description:
FURNISHING THE HOME OF GOOD TASTE
A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE PERIOD STYLES IN INTERIOR DECORATION WITH SUGGESTIONS AS TO THEIR EMPLOYMENT IN THE HOMES OF TODAY BY LUCY ABBOT THROOP Preface To try to write a history of furniture in a fairly short space is almost as hard as the square peg and round hole problem. No matter how one tries, it will not fit. One has to leave out so much of importance, so much of historic and artistic interest, so much of the life of the people that helps to make the subject vivid, and has to take so much for granted, that the task seems almost impossible. In spite of this I shall try to give in the following pages a general but necessarily short review of the field, hoping that it may help those wishing to furnish their homes in some special period style. The average person cannot study all the subject thoroughly.
