"Stuffy things" of any sort should be avoided.

The study should be to make it beautiful without such things, and a liberal use of washable textiles in curtains, portieres, bed and table covers, will give quite as much sense of luxury as heavily papered walls and costly upholstery.

In fact, one may run through all the variations from the daintiest and most befrilled and elegant of guests' bedrooms, to the "boys' room," which includes all or any of the various implements of sport or the hobbies of the boy collector, and yet keep inviolate the principles of harmony, colour, and appropriateness to use, and so accomplish beauty.
The absolute ruling of light, air, and cleanliness are quite compatible with individual expression.
It is this characteristic aspect of the different rooms which makes up the beauty of the house as a whole.

If the purpose of each is left to develop itself through good conditions, the whole will make that most delightful of earthly things, a beautiful home..