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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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I
have
seen
many
charming
country
houses
and
farm
houses
in
France
with
dining-rooms
furnished
with
painted
furniture.
Somehow
they
make
the
average
American
dining-room
seem
very
commonplace
and
tiresome.
For
instance,
I
had
the
pleasure
of
furnishing
a
little
country
house
in
France
and
we
planned
the
dining-room
in
blue
and
white.
The
furniture
was
of
the
simplest,
painted
white,
with
a
dark
blue
line
for
decoration.
The
corner
cupboard
was
a
little
more
elaborate,
with
a
gracefully
curved
top
and
a
large
glass
door
made
up
of
little
panes
set
in
a
quaint
design.
There
were
several
drawers
and
a
lower
cupboard.
The
drawers
and
the
lower
doors
invited
decorations
a
little
more
elaborate
than
the
blue
lines
of
the
furniture,
so
we
painted
on
gay
little
medallions
in
soft
tones
of
blue,
from
the
palest
gray-blue
to
a
very
dark
blue.
The
chair
cushions
were
blue,
and
the
china
was
blue
sprigged.
Three
little
pitchers
of
dark-blue
luster
were
on
the
wall
cupboard
shelf
and
a
mirror
in
a
faded
gold
frame
gave
the
necessary
variation
of
tone.
A
very
charming
treatment
for
either
a
country
or
small
city
dining-room
is
to
have
corner
cupboards
of
this
kind
cutting
off
two
corners.
They
are
convenient
and
unusual
and
pretty
as
well.
They
can
be
painted
in
white
with
a
colored
line
defining
the
panels
and
can
be
made
highly
decorative
if
the
panels
are
painted
with
a
classic
or
a
Chinese
design.
The
decoration,
however,
should
be
kept
in
variations
of
the
same
tone
as
the
stripe
on
the
panels.
For
instance,
if
the
stripe
is
gray,
then
the
design
should
be
in
dark
and
light
gray
and
blue
tones.
The
chairs
can
be
white,
in
a
room
of
this
kind,
with
small
gray
and
blue
medallions
and
either
blue
and
white,
or
plain
blue,
cushions.
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