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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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In
a
great
room
with
a
beamed
ceiling
and
oak
paneled
walls
a
painted
fresco
or
a
frieze
of
tapestry
or
some
fine
fabric
is
a
very
fine
thing,
especially
if
it
has
a
lot
of
primitive
red
and
blue
and
gold
in
it,
but
in
simple
rooms--beware!
Lately
there
has
been
a
great
revival
of
interest
in
wood
paneling.
We
go
abroad,
and
see
the
magnificent
paneling
of
old
English
houses,
and
we
come
home
and
copy
it.
But
we
cannot
get
the
workmen
who
will
carve
panels
in
the
old
patterns.
We
cannot
wait
a
hundred
years
for
the
soft
bloom
that
comes
from
the
constant
usage,
and
so
our
paneled
rooms
are
apt
to
be
too
new
and
woody.
But
we
have
such
a
wonderful
store
of
woods,
here
in
America,
it
is
worth
while
to
panel
our
rooms,
copying
the
simple
rectangular
English
patterns,
and
it
is
quite
permissible
to
"age"
our
walls
by
rubbing
in
black
wax,
and
little
shadows
of
water-color,
and
in
fact
by
any
method
we
can
devise.
Wood
paneled
walls,
like
beamed
ceilings,
are
best
in
great
rooms.
They
make
boxes
of
little
ones.
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