C.I.A.MAMA
The Center for the Identification
of Architectural Micro-Aggressions,
Molestations, and Assailments
No
matter how large your drawing-room may be, keep it intimate in spirit. There
should be a dozen conversation centers in a large room.There should be one or
more sofas, with comfortable chairs pulled up beside them. No one chair should
be isolated, for some bashful person who doesn’t talk well anyway is sure to
take the most remote chair and make herself miserable. I have seen a shy young
woman completely changed because she happened to sit upon a certain deep
cushion sofa of rose-colored damask. Whether it was the rose color, or the
enforced relaxation the sofa induced, or the proximity of some very charming
people in comfortable chairs beside her, or all of these things – I don’t know!
But she found herself. She found herself gay and happy and unafraid. I am sure
her personality flowered from that hour on. If she had been left to herself she
would have taken a stiff chair in a far corner, and she would have been
miserable and self-conscious. I believe most firmly in the magic power of
inanimate objects!
The House in Good Taste - Elsie de Wolfe
civilized home

domestic faux pas

How Does it Work?
The identification process is assisted by an uncanny sensitivity to problematic domestic situations through a number of proprietary techniques, key among them is a process I call the
“insecurity of dislocation.”

specific aberrations

For example, your favorite comfy chair may be situated as such, encroaching upon a preferred thruway, and if adjusted as recommended, will provide improved traffic flow to you and your guests. Often a refrigerator door, with the simple operation of switching the hinge location, will open up to your kitchen triangle in a more excellent manner! Possibly, your faithful architect has specified a handsome, yet dysfunctional handle upon the cupboard, that places an ever-so-slight undue pressure on the inserted fingers. You may not even notice these micro-aggressions, but I will! The identification and correction of these simple design flaws will fall into the category of
Small, or Medium.

Large

X-Large
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Gentle reader, let me now say to you...the effects of an unordered house may seem insignificant, but I am confident to inform you that these repeated domestic molestations will in time, add up to adverse affects in our pursuit of a civilized home!