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Tips on Hardwood Floors
by Matthew Anderson
Using hardwood floors for interior design and for home
decorating, based on furniture of the eighteenth century may be
discussed from different points of view. However, what most
people realize is the distinguish details of tables made from
that century. Dinner and wine tables were some of those pieces
of furniture that could add a different touch of class to your
interior decorating. Learn from the history of furniture book,
by Frederick Litchfield ideas on how 18th century furniture,
from the earliest to the present time.
To the latter part of the eighteenth century the English
furniture of which time has been discussed on the site belong
the quaint little "urn stands" which were made to hold the urn
with boiling water, while the tea pot was placed on the little
slide which is drawn out from underneath the table top. In
those days tea was an expensive luxury, and the urn stand, of
which there is an illustration, inlaid in the fashion of the
time, is a dainty relic of the past, together with the old
mahogany or marqueterie tea caddy, which was sometimes the
object of considerable skill and care. They were fitted with
two and sometimes three bottles or tea-pays of silver or
Battersea enamel, to hold the black and green teas, and when
really good examples of these daintily-fitted tea caddies are
offered for sale, they bring large sums.
Eighteenth Century Wine Tables
The wine table of this time deserves a word. These are now
somewhat rare, and are only to be found in a few old houses,
and in some of the Colleges at Oxford and Cambridge. These were
found with revolving tops, which had circles turned out to a
slight depth for each glass to stand in, and they were
sometimes shaped like the half of a flat ring. These latter
were for placing in front of the fire, when the outer side of
the table formed a convivial circle, round which the sitters
gathered after they had left the dinner table.
One of these old tables is still to be seen in the Hall of
Gray's Inn, and the writer was told that its fellow was broken
and had been "sent away." They are nearly always of good rich
mahogany, and have legs more or less ornamental according to
circumstances.
A distinguishing feature of English furniture of the last
century was the partiality for secret drawers and contrivances
for hiding away papers or valued articles; and in old
secretaries and writing tables we find a great many ingenious
designs which remind us of the days when there were but few
banks, and people kept money and deeds in their own custody.
Matthew Anderson contributes adding articles.
http://www.home-decorating-reviews.com/hardwood-floors.html
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