CHAPTER IV.
WARDROBES AND CUPBOARDS.
OMETIMES a room has to play
the part of both bedroom and
boudoir, and then it is of
importance what form the "garde-robes"
shall assume. Fortunately there
are few articles of furniture on which more lavish
pains have been bestowed, and in which it is
possible to find scope for a wider range of taste and
choice. Recesses may be fitted up, if the room be
a large one, and have deep depressions here and
there in the masonry with doors to match the
rest of the woodwork, panelled, grained, and
painted exactly alike, and very commodious
hanging cupboards may thus be formed. But however
useful these may be to the lady's maid, they are
scarcely æsthetic enough to be entitled to notice
among descriptions of art furniture. Rather let
us turn to this little wardrobe (Fig. 6), too narrow.
