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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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The
apartment
hall
is
most
difficult,
usually
long
and
narrow
and
uninteresting.
Don't
try
to
have
furniture
in
a
hall
of
this
kind.
A
small
table
near
the
front
door,
a
good
tile
for
umbrellas,
etc.,
a
good
mirror--that
is
all.
Perhaps
a
place
for
coats
and
hats,
but
some
halls
are
too
narrow
for
a
card
table.
The
apartment
with
a
dining-room
entirely
separated
from
the
living-room
is
very
unusual,
therefore
I
am
hoping
that
you
will
apply
all
that
I
have
said
about
the
treatment
of
your
living-room
to
your
dining-room
as
well.
People
who
live
in
apartments
are
very
foolish
if
they
cut
off
a
room
so
little
used
as
a
dining-room
and
furnish
it
as
if
it
belonged
to
a
huge
house.
Why
not
make
it
a
dining-and
book-room,
using
the
big
table
for
reading,
between
meals,
and
having
your
bookshelves
so
built
that
they
will
be
in
harmony
with
your
china
shelves?
Keep
all
your
glass
and
silver
and
china
in
the
kitchen,
or
butler's
pantry,
and
display
only
the
excellent
things--the
old
china,
the
pewter
tankard,
the
brass
caddy,
and
so
forth,--in
the
dining-room.
However,
if
you
have
a
real
dining-room
in
your
apartment,
do
try
to
have
chairs
that
will
be
comfortable,
for
you
can't
afford
to
have
uncomfortable
things
in
so
small
a
space!
Windsor
chairs
and
rush
bottom
chairs
are
best
of
all
for
a
simple
dining-room,
I
think,
though
the
revival
of
painted
furniture
has
brought
about
a
new
interest
in
the
old
flare-back
chairs,
painted
with
dull,
soft
colored
posies
on
a
ground
of
dull
green
or
gray
or
black.
These
chairs
would
be
charming
in
a
small
cottage
dining-room,
but
they
might
not
"wear
well"
in
a
city
apartment.
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