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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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I
planned
a
guest-room
for
the
top
floor
of
a
New
York
house
that
is
very
successful.
The
room
was
built
around
a
pair
of
appliques
made
from
two
old
Chinese
sprays
of
metal
flowers.
I
had
small
electric
light
bulbs
fitted
among
the
flowers,
mounted
them
on
carved
wood
brackets
on
each
side
of
a
good
mantel
mirror
and
worked
out
the
rest
of
the
room
from
them.
The
walls
were
painted
bluish
green,
the
woodwork
white.
Just
below
the
molding
at
the
top
of
the
room
there
was
a
narrow
border
(four
inches
wide)
of
a
mosaic-like
pattern
in
blue
and
green.
The
carpet
rug
is
of
a
blue-green
tone.
The
hangings
are
of
an
alluring
Chinoiserie
chintz,
and
there
are
several
Chinese
color
prints
framed
and
hanging
in
the
narrow
panels
between
the
front
windows.
The
furniture
is
painted
a
deep
cream
pointed
with
blue
and
green,
and
the
bed
covering
is
of
a
pale
turquoise
taffeta.
Another
guest
room
was
done
in
gentian
blue
and
white,
with
a
little
buff
and
rose-color
in
small
things.
This
room
was
planned
for
the
guests
of
the
daughter
of
the
house,
so
the
furnishings
were
naively
and
adorably
feminine.
The
dressing-table
was
made
of
a
long,
low
box,
with
a
glass
top
and
a
valance
so
crisp
and
flouncing
that
it
suggested
a
young
lady
in
crinoline.
The
valance
was
of
chintz
in
gentian
blue
and
white.
The
white
mirror
frame
was
decorated
with
little
blue
lines
and
tendrils.
Surely
any
girl
would
grow
pretty
with
dressing
before
such
an
enchanting
affair!
And
simple--why,
she
could
hinge
the
mirrors
together,
and
make
the
chintz
ruffle,
and
enamel
the
shelves
white,
and
do
every
bit
of
it
except
cut
the
plate
glass.
Of
course
the
glass
is
very
clean
and
nice,
but
an
enameled
surface
with
a
white
linen
cover
would
be
very
pleasant.
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