Demand bare walls in your bedroom, your living room and your dining-room. Built-in fittings to take the place of much of the furniture, which is expensive to buy, takes up too much room and needs looking after.
If you can, put the kitchen at the top of the house to avoid smells.
Demand concealed or diffused lighting.
Demand a vacuum cleaner.
Buy only practical furniture and never buy decorative "pieces." If you want to see bad taste, go into the houses of the rich. Put only a few pictures on your walls and none but good ones.
Keep your odds and ends in drawers or cabinets.
The gramophone or the pianola or wireless will give you exact interpretations of first-rate music, and you will avoid catching cold in the concert hall, and the frenzy of the virtuoso.
Demand ventilating panes to the windows in every room.
Teach your children that a house is only habitable when it is full of light and air, and when the floors and walls are clear. To keep your floors in order eliminate heavy furniture and thick carpets.
Demand a separate garage to your dwelling.
Demand that the maid's room should not be an attic. Do not park your servants under the roof.
Take a flat which is one size smaller than what your parents accustomed you to. Bear in mind economy in your actions, your household management and in your thoughts.
Conclusion. Every modern man has the mechanical sense. The feeling for mechanics exists and is justified by our daily
