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How to use colour theory when choosing an occasional chair?

Furniture Ferret: The two things to consider for everything colour is balance and associations. Balance simply means that the colours should ideally be coordinated in some way, so that the space looks like a unit, and not just a random collection of elements. This can be achieved by using a colour wheel, and going for colours that are either quite close to each other (colours that are only different in lightness or intensity always go together, but slight differences in hue can also work), or relatively far, like on different halves of the wheel (complementary colours like red and green) or on different thirds (for example, cyan-orange-purple). Associations with and emotions connected to colours are equally important to keep in mind. In all likelihood these associations are cultural and learnt, which means that they can be quite different in different cultures or for different individuals. The associations are even often contradictory, which makes it even more difficult to use them as a guide. Blue is often associated with productivity, but also stability, calmness and even sadness. Green is clearly the colour of nature, and is considered to be associated with safety, luck and envy (though in other cultures this latter is yellow instead). Pink is thought to bring kindness, nurturing, romance and calmness, while it was the masculine colour of choice for clothing over many decades. Red is thought of as the colour of friendship, willpower, leadership, desire and revenge, which is a very wide range of feelings. But it is clear that in nature, it means danger or importance, so you probably need to put it next to a calm colour to allow the brain to rest. These associations are so varied that these guidelines all seem to boil down to just this: pause and see what the colour means for you.

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What is a good price for an occasional chair?

You can check what the expected price of a product in this section is by looking at the median value. For the occasional chairs in this category the median is £599.95, that is, 50% of them is priced above this, and 50% below. Most of the occasional chairs in this category cost between 72.99 British pounds and £1,199. This means that nine tenths of the products are between the two figures. £614.48 is the average price of occasional chairs in this section.

From the history of furniture: Chairs and sofas Part 1

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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