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The House in Good Taste
·
Elsie De Wolfe
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The
quaint
landscape
papers
which
are
seen
in
so
many
New
England
dining-rooms
seem
to
belong
with
American
Colonial
furniture
and
white
woodwork,
prim
silver
and
gold
banded
china.
These
landscape
papers
are
usually
gay
in
effect
and
make
for
cheer.
There
are
many
new
designs
less
complicated
than
the
old
ones.
Then,
too,
there
are
charming
foliage
papers,
made
up
of
leaves
and
branches
and
birds,
which
are
very
good.
While
we
may
find
color
and
cheer
in
these
gay
papers
for
gloomy
city
dining-rooms,
if
we
have
plenty
of
light
we
may
get
more
distinguished
results
with
paneled
walls.
A
large
dining-room
may
be
paneled
with
dark
wood,
with
a
painted
fresco,
or
tapestry
frieze,
and
a
ceiling
with
carved
or
painted
beams,
or
perhaps
one
of
those
interesting
cream-white
ceilings
with
plaster
beams
judiciously
adorned
with
ornament
in
low
relief.
Given
a
large
dining-room
and
a
little
money,
you
can
do
anything:
you
can
make
a
room
that
will
compare
favorably
with
the
traditional
rooms
on
which
we
build.
You
have
a
right
to
make
your
dining-room
as
fine
as
you
please,
so
long
as
you
give
it
its
measure
of
light
and
air.
But
one
thing
you
must
have:
simplicity!
It
may
be
the
simplicity
of
a
marble
floor
and
tapestried
walls
and
a
painted
ceiling,
it
may
be
the
simplicity
of
white
paint
and
muslin
and
fine
furniture,
but
simplicity
it
must
have.
The
furniture
that
is
required
in
a
dining-room
declares
itself:
a
table
and
chairs.
You
can
bring
side
tables
and
china
closets
into
it,
or
you
can
build
in
cupboards
and
consoles
to
take
their
place,
but
there
is
little
chance
for
other
variation,
and
so
the
beginning
is
a
declaration
of
order
and
simplicity.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
