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The House in Good Taste
·
Elsie De Wolfe
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To
go
on
with
my
ideal
bedroom:
the
walls,
I
think,
should
be
simply
paneled
in
wood,
painted
gray
or
cream
or
white,
but
if
wood
cannot
be
afforded
a
plastered
wall,
painted
or
distempered
in
some
soft
tone,
is
the
best
solution.
You
will
find
plain
walls
and
gay
chintz
hangings
very
much
more
satisfying
than
walls
covered
with
flowered
papers
and
plain
hangings,
for
the
simple
reason
that
a
design
repeated
hundreds
of
times
on
a
wall
surface
becomes
very,
very
tiresome,
but
the
same
design
in
a
fabric
is
softened
and
broken
by
the
folds
of
the
material,
and
you
will
never
get
the
annoying
sense
of
being
impelled
to
count
the
figures.
One
of
the
bedrooms
illustrated
in
this
book
shows
an
Elizabethan
paper
that
does
not
belong
to
the
"busy"
class,
for
while
the
design
is
decorative
in
the
extreme
you
are
not
aware
of
an
emphatic
repeat.
This
is
really
an
old
chintz
design,
and
is
very
charming
in
blues
and
greens
and
grays
on
a
cream
ground.
I
have
seen
bedrooms
papered
with
huge
scrolls
and
sea
shells,
many
times
enlarged,
that
suggest
the
noisy
and
methodical
thumping
of
a
drum.
I
cannot
imagine
anyone
sleeping
calmly
in
such
a
room!
This
bedroom
is
eminently
suited
to
the
needs
of
a
man.
The
hangings
are
of
a
plain,
soft
stuff,
accenting
one
of
the
deep
tones
of
the
wall
covering,
and
the
sash
curtains
are
of
white
muslin.
The
furniture
is
of
oak,
of
the
Jacobean
period.
The
bed
is
true
to
its
inspiration,
with
turned
legs
and
runners,
and
slatted
head
and
foot
boards.
The
legs
and
runners
of
the
bed
were
really
inspired
by
the
chairs
and
tables
of
the
period.
This
is
an
excellent
illustration
of
the
modern
furniture
that
may
be
adapted
from
old
models.
It
goes
without
saying
that
the
beds
of
that
period
were
huge,
cumbersome
affairs,
and
this
adapted
bed
is
really
more
suitable
to
modern
needs
in
size
and
weight
and
line
than
an
original
one.
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