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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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You
may
have
a
certain
license
in
the
papering
of
your
bedrooms,
of
course,
but
the
living-rooms--hall,
dining-room,
living-room,
drawing-room,
and
so
forth--should
be
pulled
together
with
walls
of
one
color.
In
no
other
way
can
you
achieve
an
effect
of
spaciousness--and
spaciousness
is
the
thing
of
all
other
things
most
desirable
in
the
crowded
city.
You
must
have
a
place
where
you
can
breathe
and
fling
your
arms
about!
When
you
have
it
really
ready
for
furnishing,
get
the
essentials
first;
do
with
a
bed
and
a
chest
of
drawers
and
a
table
and
a
few
chairs,
and
add
things
gradually,
as
the
rooms
call
for
them.
Make
the
best
of
the
opportunities
offered
for
built-in
furniture
before
you
buy
another
thing.
If
you
have
a
built-in
china
closet
in
your
dining-room,
you
can
plan
a
graceful
built-in
console-table
to
serve
as
a
buffet
or
serving-table,
and
you
will
require
only
a
good
table--not
too
heavily
built--and
a
few
chairs
for
this
room.
There
is
rarely
a
room
that
would
not
be
improved
by
built-in
shelves
and
inset
mirrors.
Of
course,
I
do
not
advise
you
to
spend
a
lot
of
money
on
someone
else's
property,
but
why
not
look
the
matter
squarely
in
the
face?
This
is
to
be
your
home.
You
will
find
a
number
of
things
that
annoy
you--life
in
any
city
furnishes
annoyances.
But
if
you
have
one
or
two
reasonably
large
rooms,
plenty
of
light
and
air,
and
respectable
surroundings,
make
up
your
mind
that
you
will
not
move
every
year.
That
you
will
make
a
home
of
this
place,
and
then
go
ahead
and
treat
it
as
a
home!
If
a
certain
recess
in
the
wall
suggests
bookshelves,
don't
grudge
the
few
dollars
necessary
to
have
the
bookshelves
built
in!
You
can
probably
have
them
built
so
that
they
can
be
removed,
on
that
far
day
when
this
apartment
is
no
longer
your
home,
and
if
you
have
a
dreadful
wall
paper
don't
hide
behind
the
silly
plea
that
the
landlord
will
not
change
it.
Go
without
a
new
gown,
if
necessary,
and
pay
for
the
paper
yourself.
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