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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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We
may
take
our
first
lessons
in
color
from
Nature,
on
whose
storehouse
we
can
draw
limitlessly.
Nature,
when
she
plans
a
wondrous
splash
of
color,
prepares
a
proper
background
for
it.
She
gives
us
color
plans
for
all
the
needs
we
can
conceive.
White
and
gray
clouds
on
a
blue
sky--what
more
could
she
use
in
such
a
composition?
A
bit
of
gray
green
moss
upon
a
black
rock,
a
field
of
yellow
dandelions,
a
pink
and
white
spike
of
hollyhocks,
an
orange-colored
butterfly
poised
on
a
stalk
of
larkspur--what
color-plans
are
these!
I
think
that
the
first
consideration
after
you
have
settled
your
building-site
should
be
to
place
your
house
so
that
its
windows
may
frame
Nature's
own
pictures.
With
windows
facing
north
and
south,
where
all
the
fluctuating
and
wayward
charm
of
the
season
unrolls
before
your
eyes,
your
windows
become
the
finest
pictures
that
you
can
have.
When
this
has
been
arranged,
it
is
time
to
consider
the
color-scheme
for
the
interior
of
the
house,
the
colors
that
shall
be
in
harmony
with
the
window-framed
vistas,
the
colors
that
shall
be
backgrounds
for
the
intimate
personal
furnishings
of
your
daily
life.
You
must
think
of
your
walls
as
backgrounds
for
the
colors
you
wish
to
bring
into
your
rooms.
And
by
colors
I
do
not
mean
merely
the
primary
colors,
red
and
blue
and
yellow,
or
the
secondary
colors,
green
and
orange
and
violet,
I
mean
the
white
spaces,
the
black
shadows,
the
gray
halftones,
the
suave
creams,
that
give
you
the
feeling
of
color.
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