I don't want to fix a place up just as I like it, and then scoot off and leave it and live somewhere else.

And when our daughter begins to have beaux and entertain house parties, we'll need all the room there is." "You have what Mr.Lucas calls a 'leaping mind,'" Bill remarked.

"But I'm ready to confess I like room enough to swing a cat in,--even if I've no intention of swinging poor puss." And so they set blithely to work to furnish their ancestral halls, as Patty called them, claiming that an ancestral hall had to have a beginning some time, and she was beginning hers now.
Such fun as it was selecting rugs and hangings, furniture and ornaments, books and pictures.
Lots of things they had bought abroad, for Captain Bill had been fortunate in his affairs and had had some leisure time in France and England after the war was over to collect some art treasures.
Also, they didn't try or want to complete the whole house at once.

Part of the fun would be in adding bits later on, and if there were no place to put them, there would be no fun in buying things.
Patty was a wise and careful buyer.

Only worth-while things were selected, not a miscellaneous collection of trumpery junk.