The country house; a practical manual of the planning and construction of the American country home and its surroundings (1905)
Hooper, Charles Edward, 1867- · New York : Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 188
ardistant when onecan look upon thepiano as a decorativefeature in the home,and not as an eye-sore tolerated onlyfor the sake of thesweetness it con-tains. The bedchamberwas the first offshootof the mediaevalhall. When thefemale members ofthe household be-came tired of herd-ing in the commonroom,… … upon. At first, it became the drawing room and bedroom in common, whichagain destroyed its privacy, until another concession was made, in its subdi-vision, by a screen, into two separate rooms. Even this arrangement failed togive the room the exclusiveness really required of it, but it was not…
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