Chapter XXXIII: Treatment of a Narrow Hall

A long, narrow hall in a house, or apartment, is difficult to arrange, but there are methods of treating them which partially corrects their defects. One method is shown on Plate XIV.

The best furnishing is a very narrow console (table) with a stiff, high-backed chair on either side of it, and on the wall, over console, a tapestry, an architectural picture or a family portrait. On the console is placed merely a silver card tray.

Have a closet for wraps if possible, or arrange hooks and a table, out of right, for this purpose. Keep your walls and woodwork light in colour and in the same tone.

PLATE XXVIII

An idea for treatment of a narrow hall, where the practical and
beautiful are combined. The hall table and candlesticks are an
example of the renaissance of iron, elaborately wrought after
classic designs.

The mirror over table is framed in green glass, the ornaments are
of dull gold (iron gilded).

The Venetian glass jar is in opalescent green, made to hold dried
rose leaves, and used here purely as an ornament which catches
and reflects the light, important, as the hall is dark.

The iron of table is black touched with gold, and the marble slab
dark-green veined with white.

An interesting treatment of a long narrow hall is to break its length with lattice work, which has an open arch, wide enough for one or two people to pass through, the arch surmounted by an urn in which ivy is planted. The lattice work has lines running up and down--not crossed, as is the usual way. It is on hinges so that trunks or furniture may be carried through the hall, if necessary. The whole is kept in the same colour scheme as the hall.