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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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The
painted
table
is
very
unusual.
The
legs
and
the
carved
under-frame
are
painted
cream
and
pointed
with
blue,
like
the
chairs,
but
the
top
is
as
gay
as
an
old-fashioned
garden,
with
stiff
little
medallions,
and
urns
spilling
over
with
flowers,
and
conventional
blossoms
picked
out
all
over
it.
The
colors
used
are
very
soft,
blue
and
cream
being
predominant.
The
table
is
covered
with
a
sheet
of
plate
glass.
This
table
is,
of
course,
too
elaborate
for
a
simple
dining-room,
but
the
idea
could
be
adapted
and
varied
to
suit
many
color
and
furniture
schemes.
Painted
furniture
is
a
delight
in
a
small
dining-room.
In
the
Colony
Club
I
planned
a
very
small
room
for
little
dinners
that
is
well
worth
reproducing
in
a
small
house.
This
little
room
was
very
hard
to
manage
because
there
were
no
windows!
There
were
two
tiny
little
openings
high
on
the
wall
at
one
end
of
the
room,
but
it
would
take
imagination
to
call
them
windows.
The
room
was
on
the
top
floor,
and
the
real
light
came
from
a
skylight.
You
can
imagine
the
difficulty
of
making
such
a
little
box
interesting.
However,
there
was
one
thing
that
warmed
my
heart
to
the
little
room:
a
tiny
ante-room
between
the
hall
proper
and
the
room
proper.
This
little
ante-room
I
paneled
in
yellowish
tan
and
gray.
I
introduced
a
sofa
covered
with
an
old
brocade
just
the
color
of
dried
rose
leaves--ashes
of
roses,
the
French
call
it--and
the
little
ante-room
became
a
fitting
introduction
to
the
dining-room
within.
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