Choose a Cheerful House. . .

“Choose a cheerful house, furnish it with taste and propriety, such that everything in your home breathes of you. Have good books, instruments, good friends, pleasant company. . .”  Madeleine de Puisieux, (Letter to a Friend), 1749. What makes a house a home? Advice from the 18th century about furnishing our homes still rings true.…

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