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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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If
your
walls
are
faulty,
you
must
resort
to
wall
papers
or
fabrics.
Properly
selected
wall
papers
are
not
to
be
despised.
The
woodwork
of
a
room,
of
course,
directly
influences
the
treatment
of
its
walls.
So
many
people
ask
me
for
advice
about
wall
papers,
and
forget
absolutely
to
tell
me
of
the
finish
of
the
framing
of
their
wall
spaces.
A
pale
yellowish
cream
wall
paper
is
very
charming
with
woodwork
of
white,
but
it
would
not
do
with
woodwork
of
heavy
oak,
for
instance.
A
general
rule
to
follow
in
a
small
house
is:
do
not
have
a
figured
wall
paper
if
you
expect
to
use
things
of
large
design
in
your
rooms.
If
you
have
gorgeous
rugs
and
hangings,
keep
your
walls
absolutely
plain.
In
furnishing
the
Colony
Club
I
used
a
ribbon
grass
paper
in
the
hallway.
The
fresh,
spring-like
green
and
white
striped
paper
is
very
delightful
with
a
carpet
and
runner
of
plain
dark-green
velvet,
and
white
woodwork,
and
dark
mahogany
furniture,
and
many
gold-framed
mirrors.
In
another
room
in
this
building
where
many
chintzes
and
fabrics
were
used,
I
painted
the
woodwork
white
and
the
walls
a
soft
cream
color.
In
the
bedrooms
I
used
a
number
of
wall
papers,
the
most
fascinating
of
these,
perhaps,
is
in
the
bird
room.
The
walls
are
hung
with
a
daringly
gorgeous
paper
covered
with
birds--birds
of
paradise
and
paroquets
perched
on
flowery
tropical
branches.
The
furniture
in
this
room
is
of
black
and
gold
lacquer,
and
the
rug
and
hangings
are
of
jade
green.
It
would
not
be
so
successful
in
a
room
one
lived
in
all
the
year
around,
but
it
is
a
good
example
of
what
one
can
do
with
a
tempting
wall
paper
in
an
occasional
room,
a
guest
room,
for
instance.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
