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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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For
north
rooms
I
am
strongly
inclined
to
the
use
of
paneling
in
our
native
American
woods,
that
are
so
rich
in
effect,
but
alas,
so
little
used.
I
hope
our
architects
will
soon
realize
what
delightful
and
inexpensive
rooms
can
be
made
of
pine
and
cherry,
chestnut
and
cypress,
and
the
beautiful
California
redwood.
I
know
of
a
library
paneled
with
cypress.
The
beamed
ceiling,
the
paneled
walls,
the
built-in
shelves,
the
ample
chairs
and
long
tables
are
all
of
the
soft
brown
cypress.
Here,
if
anywhere,
you
would
think
a
monotony
of
brown
wood
would
be
obvious,
but
think
of
the
thousands
of
books
with
brilliant
bindings!
Think
of
the
green
branches
of
trees
seen
through
the
casement
windows!
Think
of
the
huge,
red-brick
fireplace,
with
its
logs
blazing
in
orange
and
yellow
and
vermillion
flame!
Think
of
the
distinction
of
a
copper
bowl
of
yellow
flowers
on
the
long
brown
table!
Can't
you
see
that
this
cypress
room
is
simply
glowing
with
color?
I
wish
that
I
might
be
able
to
show
all
you
young
married
girls
who
are
working
out
your
home-schemes
just
how
to
work
out
the
color
of
a
room.
Suppose
you
are
given
some
rare
and
lovely
jar,
or
a
wee
rug,
or
a
rare
old
print,
or
even
a
quaint
old
chair
from
long
ago,
and
build
a
room
around
it.
I
have
some
such
point
of
interest
in
every
room
I
build,
and
I
think
that
is
why
some
people
like
my
rooms--they
feel,
without
quite
knowing
why,
that
I
have
loved
them
while
making
them.
Now
there
is
a
little
sitting-room
and
bedroom
combined
in
a
certain
New
York
house
that
I
worked
out
from
a
pair
of
Chinese
jars.
They
were
the
oddest
things,
of
a
sort
of
blue-green
and
mauve
and
mulberry,
with
flecks
of
black,
on
a
cream
porcelain
ground.
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