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The House in Good Taste
·
Elsie De Wolfe
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Few
apartments
have
fireplaces,
and
if
you
are
fortunate
enough
to
find
one
with
a
real
fireplace
and
a
simple
mantel
shelf
you
will
be
far
on
the
way
toward
making
a
home
of
your
group
of
rooms.
Of
course
your
apartment
is
heated
by
steam,
or
hot
air,
or
something,
but
an
open
fire
of
coal
or
wood
will
be
very
pleasant
on
chilly
days,
and
more
important
still
your
home
will
have
a
point
of
departure--the
Hearth.
If
the
mantel
shelf
is
surmounted
by
one
of
those
dreadful
monstrosities
made
up
of
gingerbread
woodwork
and
distressing
bits
of
mirrors,
convince
your
landlord
that
it
will
not
be
injured
in
the
removing,
and
store
it
during
your
residence
here.
Have
the
space
above
the
mantel
papered
like
the
rest
of
the
walls,
and
hang
one
good
picture,
or
a
good
mirror,
or
some
such
thing
above
your
mantel
shelf,
and
you
will
have
offered
up
your
homage
to
the
Spirit
of
the
Hearth.
When
you
do
begin
to
buy
furniture,
buy
compactly,
buy
carefully.
Remember
that
you
will
not
require
the
furniture
your
mother
had
in
a
sixteen-room
house.
You
will
have
no
hall
or
piazza
furnishings
to
buy,
for
instance,
and
therefore
you
many
put
a
little
more
into
your
living-room
things.
The
living-room
is
the
nucleus
of
the
modern
apartment.
Sometimes
it
is
studio,
living-room
and
dining-room
in
one.
Sometimes
living-room,
library
and
guest-room,
by
the
grace
of
a
comfortable
sleeping-couch
and
a
certain
amount
of
drawer
or
closet
space.
At
any
rate,
it
will
be
more
surely
a
living-room
than
a
similar
room
in
a
large
house,
and
therefore
everything
in
it
should
count
for
something.
Do
not
admit
an
unnecessary
rug,
or
chair,
or
picture,
lest
you
lose
the
spaciousness,
the
dignity
of
the
room.
An
over-stuffed
chair
will
fill
a
room
more
obviously
than
a
grand
piano--if
the
piano
is
properly,
and
the
chair
improperly
placed.
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