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The House in Good Taste
·
Elsie De Wolfe
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In
my
own
house
the
bedrooms
open
into
dressing-rooms,
so
much
of
the
usual
furniture
is
not
necessary.
My
own
bedroom,
for
instance,
is
built
around
the
same
old
Breton
bed
I
had
in
the
Washington
Irving
house.
The
bed
dominates
the
room,
but
there
are
also
a
chaise-longue,
several
small
tables,
many
comfortable
chairs,
and
a
real
fireplace.
The
business
of
dressing
takes
place
in
the
dressing-room,
so
there
is
no
dressing-table
here,
but
there
are
long
mirrors
filling
the
wall
spaces
between
windows
and
doors.
Miss
Marbury's
bedroom
is
just
over
mine,
and
is
a
sunshiny
place
of
much
rose
and
blue
and
cream.
Her
rooms
are
always
full
of
blue,
just
as
my
rooms
are
always
full
of
rose
color.
This
bedroom
has
cream
woodwork
and
walls
of
a
bluish-gray,
cream
painted
furniture
covered
with
a
mellow
sort
of
rose-and-cream
chintz,
and
a
Persian
rug
made
up
of
blue
and
cream.
The
curtains
at
the
windows
are
of
plain
blue
linen
bordered
with
a
narrow
blue
and
white
fringe.
The
lighting-fixtures
are
of
carved
wood,
pointed
in
polychrome.
The
most
beautiful
thing
in
the
room
is
a
Fifteenth
Century
painting,
the
Madonna
of
Bartolomeo
Montagna,
which
has
the
place
of
honor
over
the
mantel.
I
haven't
said
a
word
about
our
nice
American
Colonial
bedrooms,
because
all
of
you
know
their
beauties
and
requirements
as
well
as
I.
The
great
drawback
to
the
stately
old
furniture
of
our
ancestors
is
the
space
it
occupies.
Haven't
you
seen
a
fine
old
four
post
bed
simply
overflowing
a
poor
little
room?
Fortunately,
the
furniture-makers
are
designing
simple
beds
of
similar
lines,
but
lighter
build,
and
these
beds
are
very
lovely.
The
owner
of
a
massive
old
four-post
bed
is
justly
proud
of
it,
but
our
new
beds
are
built
for
a
new
service
and
a
new
conception
of
hygiene,
and
so
must
find
new
lines
and
curves
that
will
be
friendly
to
the
old
dressing
tables
and
highboys
and
chests
of
drawers.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
