Lab
Library
Journal
Shop
Sign in
to keep
Share image
1
192
The House in Good Taste
·
Elsie De Wolfe
117
Another
dining-room
of
the
same
sort
was
planned
for
a
small
country
house
on
Long
Island.
Here
the
woodwork
was
a
deep
cream,
the
walls
the
same
tone,
and
the
ceiling
a
little
lighter.
We
found
six
of
those
prim
Duxbury
chairs,
with
flaring
spindle-backs,
and
painted
them
a
soft
yellow-green.
The
table
was
a
plain
pine
one,
with
straight
legs.
We
painted
it
cream
and
decorated
the
top
with
a
conventional
border
of
green
adapted
from
the
design
of
the
china--a
thick
creamy
Danish
ware
ornamented
with
queer
little
wavy
lines
and
figures.
I
should
have
mentioned
the
china
first,
because
the
whole
room
grew
from
that.
The
rug
was
a
square
of
velvet
of
a
darker
green.
The
curtains
were
soft
cream-colored
net.
One
wall
was
made
up
of
windows,
another
of
doors
and
a
cupboard,
and
against
the
other
two
walls
we
built
two
long,
narrow
consoles
that
were
so
simple
anyone
could
accomplish
them:
simply
two
wide
shelves
resting
on
good
brackets,
with
mirrors
above.
The
one
splendid
thing
in
the
room
was
a
curtain
of
soft
green
damask
that
was
pulled
at
night
to
cover
the
group
of
windows.
Everything
else
in
the
room
was
bought
for
a
song.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
