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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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She
forgets
that
while
she
wears
only
one
gown
at
a
time
she
will
live
with
all
her
wall
papers
all
the
time.
She
decides
to
use
a
red
paper
of
large
figures
in
one
room,
and
a
green
paper
with
snaky
stripes
in
the
adjoining
room,
but
she
doesn't
try
the
papers
out;
she
doesn't
give
them
the
fair
test
of
living
with
them
a
few
days.
You
can
always
buy,
or
borrow,
a
roll
of
the
paper
you
like
and
take
it
home
and
live
with
it
awhile.
The
dealer
will
credit
the
roll
when
you
make
the
final
decisions.
You
should
assemble
all
the
papers
that
are
to
be
used
in
the
house,
and
all
the
fabrics,
and
rugs,
and
see
what
the
effect
of
the
various
compositions
will
be,
one
with
another.
You
can't
consider
one
room
alone,
unless
it
be
a
bedroom,
for
in
our
modern
houses
we
believe
too
thoroughly
in
spaciousness
to
separate
our
living
rooms
by
ante-chambers
and
formal
approaches.
We
must
preserve
a
certain
amount
of
privacy,
and
have
doors
that
may
be
closed
when
need
be,
but
we
must
also
consider
the
effect
of
things
when
those
doors
are
open,
when
the
color
of
one
room
melts
into
the
color
of
another.
To
me,
the
most
beautiful
wall
is
the
plain
and
dignified
painted
wall,
broken
into
graceful
panels
by
the
use
of
narrow
moldings,
with
lighting
fixtures
carefully
placed,
and
every
picture
and
mirror
hung
with
classic
precision.
This
wall
is
just
as
appropriate
to
the
six-room
cottage
as
to
the
twenty-room
house.
If
I
could
always
find
perfect
walls,
I'd
always
paint
them,
and
never
use
a
yard
of
paper.
Painted
walls,
when
very
well
done,
are
dignified
and
restful,
and
most
sanitary.
The
trouble
is
that
too
few
plasterers
know
how
to
smooth
the
wall
surface,
and
too
few
workmen
know
how
to
apply
paint
properly.
In
my
new
house
on
East
Fifty-fifth
Street
I
have
had
all
the
walls
painted.
The
woodwork
is
ivory
white
throughout
the
house,
except
in
the
dining-room,
where
the
walls
and
woodwork
are
soft
gray.
The
walls
of
most
of
the
rooms
and
halls
are
painted
a
very
deep
tone
of
cream
and
are
broken
into
panels,
the
moldings
being
painted
cream
like
the
woodwork.
With
such
walls
you
can
carry
out
any
color-plan
you
may
desire.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
