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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
55
As
for
your
single
windows,
when
you
are
planning
them
you
will
be
wise
to
have
the
sashes
so
placed
that
a
broad
sill
will
be
possible.
There
is
nothing
pleasanter
than
a
broad
window
sill
at
a
convenient
height
from
the
floor.
The
tendency
of
American
builders
nowadays
is
to
use
two
large
glass
sashes
instead
of
the
small
or
medium-sized
panes
of
older
times.
This
is
very
bad
from
the
standpoint
of
the
architect,
because
these
huge
squares
of
glass
suggest
holes
in
the
wall,
whereas
the
square
or
oblong
panes
with
their
straight
frames
and
bars
advertise
their
suitability.
The
housewife's
objection
to
small
panes
is
that
they
are
harder
to
clean
than
the
large
ones,
but
this
objection
is
not
worthy
of
consideration.
If
we
really
wish
to
make
our
houses
look
as
if
they
were
built
for
permanency
we
should
consider
everything
that
makes
for
beauty
and
harmony
and
hominess.
There
is
nothing
more
interesting
than
a
cottage
window
sash
of
small
square
panes
of
glass
unless
it
be
the
diamond-paned
casement
window
of
an
old
English
house.
Such
windows
are
obviously
windows.
The
huge
sheets
of
plate
glass
that
people
are
so
proud
of
are
all
very
well
for
shops,
but
they
are
seldom
right
in
small
houses.
I
remember
seeing
one
plate
glass
window
that
was
well
worth
while.
It
was
in
the
mountain
studio
of
an
artist
and
it
was
fully
eight
by
ten
feet--one
unbroken
sheet
of
glass
which
framed
a
marvelous
vista
of
mountain
and
valley.
It
goes
without
saying
that
such
a
window
requires
no
curtain
other
than
one
that
is
to
be
drawn
at
night.
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