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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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If
you
have
an
architect
who
is
also
a
decorator,
and
he
has
ideas
for
a
modeled
plaster
ceiling,
or
a
ceiling
with
plaster-covered
beams
and
cornice
and
a
fine
application
of
ornament,
let
him
do
his
best
for
you,
but
remember
that
a
fine
ceiling
demands
certain
things
of
the
room
it
covers.
If
you
have
a
simple
little
house
with
simple
furnishings,
be
content
to
have
your
ceilings
tinted
a
warm
cream,
keep
them
always
clean.
When
all
these
things
are
settled--floors
and
ceilings
and
woodwork--you
may
begin
to
plan
your
wall
coverings.
Begin,
you
understand.
You
will
probably
change
your
plans
a
dozen
times
before
you
make
the
final
decisions.
I
hope
you
will!
Because
inevitably
the
last
opinion
is
best--it
grows
out
of
so
many
considerations.
The
main
thing
to
remember,
when
you
begin
to
cover
your
walls,
is
that
they
are
walls,
that
they
are
straight
up
and
down,
and
have
breadth
and
thickness,
that
they
are
supposedly
strong,
in
other
words,
that
they
are
a
structural
part
of
your
house.
A
wall
should
always
be
treated
as
a
flat
surface
and
in
a
conventional
way.
Pictorial
flowers
and
lifelike
figures
have
no
place
upon
it,
but
conventionalized
designs
may
be
used
successfully--witness
the
delighted
use
of
the
fantastic
landscape
papers
in
the
middle
of
the
Eighteenth
Century.
Walls
should
always
be
obviously
walls,
and
not
flimsy
partitions
hung
with
gauds
and
trophies.
The
wall
is
the
background
of
the
room,
and
so
must
be
flat
in
treatment
and
reposeful
in
tone.
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