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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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You
would
think
that
every
woman
would
know
that
walls
are
influenced
by
the
exposure
of
the
room,
but
how
often
I
have
seen
bleak
north
rooms
with
walls
papered
in
cold
gray,
and
sunshiny
south
rooms
with
red
or
yellow
wall
papers!
Dull
tones
and
cool
colors
are
always
good
in
south
rooms,
and
live
tones
and
warm
colors
in
north
rooms.
For
instance,
if
you
wish
to
keep
your
rooms
in
one
color-plan,
you
may
have
white
woodwork
in
all
of
them,
and
walls
of
varying
shades
of
cream
and
yellow.
The
north
rooms
may
have
walls
painted
or
papered
with
a
soft,
warm
yellow
that
suggests
creamy
chiffon
over
orange.
The
south
rooms
may
have
the
walls
of
a
cool
creamy-gray
tone.
Whether
you
paint
or
paper
your
walls,
you
should
consider
the
placing
of
the
picture-molding
most
carefully.
If
the
ceiling
is
very
high,
the
walls
will
be
more
interesting
if
the
picture-molding
is
placed
three
or
four
feet
below
the
ceiling
line.
If
the
ceiling
is
low,
the
molding
should
be
within
two
inches
of
the
ceiling.
These
measurements
are
not
arbitrary,
of
course.
Every
room
is
a
law
unto
itself,
and
no
cut
and
dried
rule
can
be
given.
A
fine
frieze
is
a
very
beautiful
decoration,
but
it
must
be
very
fine
to
be
worth
while
at
all.
Usually
the
dropped
ceiling
is
better
for
the
upper
wall
space.
It
goes
without
saying
that
those
dreadful
friezes
perpetrated
by
certain
wall
paper
designers
are
very
bad
form,
and
should
never
be
used.
Indeed,
the
very
principle
of
the
ordinary
paper
frieze
is
bad;
it
darkens
the
upper
wall
unpleasantly,
and
violates
the
good
old
rule
that
the
floors
should
be
darkest
in
tone,
the
side
walls
lighter,
and
the
ceiling
lightest.
The
recent
vogue
of
stenciling
walls
may
be
objected
to
on
this
account,
though
a
very
narrow
and
conventional
line
of
stenciling
may
sometimes
be
placed
just
under
the
picture
rail
with
good
effect.
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