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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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The
walls
of
the
room
are
pretty
well
filled
with
built-in
bookshelves,
windows,
chimney-piece,
and
doors,
but
there
is
one
long
wall
space
for
the
day
bed
and
another
for
the
old
secretary
that
holds
my
porcelain
figurines.
The
room
is
really
quite
small,
but
by
making
the
furniture
keep
its
place
against
the
walls
an
effect
of
spaciousness
has
been
obtained.
The
walls
of
the
room
are
painted
the
palest
of
egg-shell
blue-green.
The
woodwork
is
ivory
white,
with
applied
decorations
of
sculptured
white
marble.
The
floor
is
entirely
covered
with
a
carpet
rug
of
jade
green
velvet,
and
there
is
a
smaller
Persian
rug
of
the
soft,
indescribable
colors
of
the
Orient.
The
day
bed,
of
which
I
spoke
in
an
earlier
paragraph,
is
covered
with
an
old
brocade,
gray-green
figures
on
a
black
ground.
A
large
armchair
is
also
covered
with
the
brocade,
and
the
window
curtains,
which
cannot
be
seen
in
the
picture,
are
of
black
chintz,
printed
with
birds
of
pale
greens
and
blues
and
grays,
with
beaks
of
rose-red.
There
is
always
a
possibility
for
rose-red
in
my
rooms,
I
love
it
so.
I
manage
the
other
colors
so
that
they
will
admit
a
chair
or
a
stool
or
a
bowl
of
rose
color.
In
this
room
the
two
chairs
beside
the
couch
are
covered
with
rose-colored
damask,
and
this
brings
out
the
rose
in
the
rug
and
in
the
chintz,
and
accents
the
deep
red
note
of
the
leathern
book-bindings.
The
rose
red
is
subordinated
to
the
importance
of
the
book-bindings
in
this
room,
but
there
is
still
opportunity
for
its
use
in
so
many
small
things.
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