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How do I spot a bargain when buying a stool?

Furniture Ferret: You can check what the expected price of a product in this category is by looking at the median value. The median price is £161 which means that exactly half of the stools costs more and half costs less. Most of the stools here cost from £41.99 to 899.95 British pounds. Only 10% of products cost more or less than these two values. £220.24 is the average price of stools in this section.

How can I find the cheapest ivory stools on Furniture Ferret?

Furniture Ferret: On every search page there is the option to order the results by their price (lowest or highest first), or relevance. Tap on the button just above the first item, after "Order by", to change how the results are ordered. Ordering by relevance shows the stool at the top that contains most of the search terms, while ordering by price will show the cheapest or most expensive stool first. Set the order to "Price: low to high" to see the cheapest ivory stools available on Furniture Ferret.

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How can one coordinate colours?

If you have the option to choose between different colours for a stool that fits your space, it is helpful to know what the effects of the different colours are. The two main things to consider for everything colour is balance and associations. Balance means that the colours should be coordinated, so that the space looks like a unit instead of a random collection of elements. This can be achieved by using a colour wheel, and selecting colours that are either quite close to each other, or quite far, like on opposite sides of the wheel (complementary colours like blue and yellow). Associations with and emotions connected to colours are equally important to keep in mind, and there is no shortage of guides for these from those by 19th-century Impressionist painters to modern interior design guides. It is quite probable that these associations are cultural and learnt, which means that they can be very different in different cultures or just for different people. Blue is often associated with productivity, but also calmness, stability and even sadness. Green is clearly the colour of nature, and is considered to evoke safety, luck and envy (though in other cultures envy is yellow instead). Pink is considered to evoke kindness, nurturing, romance and calmness, while it was the masculine colour of choice for clothing over many decades. Red is considered to be the colour of friendship, willpower, leadership, desire and revenge, which is a very wide range of emotions. But it is clear that in nature, it signals danger and importance, so you probably need to put it next to a neutral colour to allow the eye to rest. These associations are so different that these guides all seem to boil down to just this: pause and consider what the colour means for you.

From the history of furniture: Chairs and sofas Part 1

One can imagine what grief it caused to Ireland when this sacred stone, endeared by a thousand superstitious ideas, was removed and taken to England.

If you will hunt among old documents, both in this country and in England, you will find frequent mention of "joint stools." I could give many extracts from old wills which specify these stools, and I show one in Figure 64. The cradle does not properly be long in this article, but when I reflected how often a weary mother had sat on that same joint stool and rocked that cradle, I let it stay. It must have been in pretty constant operation in some of those pioneer families, where twelve children were an ordinary num ber, and twenty not very unusual! Such a cradle and such a stool, no doubt, found their way Over in many of the earliest lots of household gear, since, though these patterns were found by 1560, they were made till a century later, and when once part of the house hold goods of a family, descended till they fairly gave out from excessive wear.

Stools were in common use at table till well into the seventeenth century. In an old play called " The Roaring Girl" (1617), when chairs, stools, and cush ions are called for, a chair is called a back-friend, and Sir Adam, who is faAxmred with one, says, " thank I thee for it, back friends are sometimes good."

Holinshed, who wrote his famous "Chronicles" before 1580, has much to say about the increase of luxury both in dress and household furnishings in all classes, and mentions what may be found in even the farmers' homes. He says: "The furniture of our housesalso exceedeth, and grown is in manner even to delicacy;and herein Ido not speak of the nobility and gentry only, but likewise of the lowest sort in most places of our south country, that have anything at all to take to. Certes in noblemen's houses it is not rare to see abundance of arras, rich hangings of tapestry, silver vessels, and so much other plate as may furnish sundry cupboards, to the sum oftentimes of a thousand or two pounds at the least; whereby the value of this and the rest of their stuff doth grow to be almost inestimable. Likewise in the houses of knights, gentlemen, merchantmen, and some other wealthy citizens, it is not geson to behold generally their great provision of tap estry, Turkey work, pewter, brass, fine linen, and thereto costly cupboard of plate, worth five, six, or a thousand pounds, to be deemed by estimation. But as herein all these sorts do far exceed their elders and predecessors, and in neatness and curi osity the merchant all other; so in time past, the costly furni ture stayed there; whereas now it is descended yet lower, even unto the inferior artificers, and many farmers, who by virtue of their old and not of their new leases have for the most part learned to garnish their cupboards with plate, their joined beds with tapestry and silk hangings, and their tables with carpets and fine napcry."

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