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The House in Good Taste
·
Elsie De Wolfe
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Nothing
so
nice
has
happened
in
a
long
time
as
the
revival
of
painted
furniture,
and
the
application
of
quaint
designs
to
modern
beds
and
chairs
and
chests.
You
may
find
inspiration
in
a
length
of
chintz,
in
an
old
fan,
in
a
faded
print--anywhere!
The
main
thing
is
to
work
out
a
color
plan
for
the
background--the
walls,
the
furniture,
and
the
rugs--and
then
you
can
draw
or
stencil
the
chosen
designs
wherever
they
seem
to
belong,
and
paint
them
in
with
dull
tones
and
soft
colors,
rose
and
buff
and
blue
and
green
and
a
little
bit
of
gray
and
cream
and
black.
Or,
if
you
aren't
even
as
clever
as
that
(and
you
probably
are!)
you
can
decorate
your
painted
furniture
with
narrow
lines
of
color:
dark
green
on
a
light
green
ground;
dark
blue
on
yellow;
any
color
on
gray
or
cream--there
are
infinite
possibilities
of
color
combinations.
In
one
of
the
rooms
shown
in
the
illustrations
the
posy
garlands
on
the
chest
of
drawers
were
inspired
by
a
lamp
jar.
This
furniture
was
carefully
planned,
as
may
be
seen
by
the
little
urns
on
the
bedposts,
quite
in
the
manner
of
the
Brothers
Adam,
but
delightful
results
may
be
obtained
by
using
any
simple
modern
cottage
furniture
and
applying
fanciful
decorations.
Be
wary
of
hanging
many
pictures
in
your
bedroom.
I
give
this
advice
cheerfully,
because
I
know
you
will
hang
them
anyway
(I
do)
but
I
warn
you
you
will
spoil
your
room
if
you
aren't
very
stern
with
yourself.
Somehow
the
pictures
we
most
love,
small
prints
and
photographs
and
things,
look
spotty
on
our
walls.
We
must
group
them
to
get
a
pleasant
effect.
Keep
the
framed
photographs
on
the
writing
table,
the
dressing
table,
the
mantel,
etc.,
but
do
not
hang
them
on
your
walls.
If
you
have
small
prints
that
you
feel
you
must
have,
hang
them
flat
on
the
wall,
well
within
the
line
of
vision.
They
should
be
low
enough
to
be
examined,
because
usually
such
pictures
are
not
decorative
in
effect,
but
exquisite
in
detail.
The
fewer
pictures
the
better,
and
in
the
guest-room
fewer
still!
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