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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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The
customary
finish
for
these
old
halls
was
a
landscape
wall
paper,
a
painted
wall
broken
into
panels
by
molding,
a
high
white
wainscoting
with
white
plaster
above,
or
possibly
a
gay
figured
paper
of
questionable
beauty.
Mahogany
furniture
was
characteristic
of
all
these
halls--a
grandfather's-clock,
a
turn-top
table,
a
number
of
dignified
chairs,
and
a
quaint
old
mirror.
Sometimes
there
was
a
fireplace,
but
oftener
there
were
doors
opening
evenly
into
various
rooms
of
the
first
floor.
These
things
are
irreproachable
to-day.
Why
did
we
have
to
go
through
the
period
of
the
walnut
hat-rack
and
shiny
oak
hall
furniture,
only
to
return
to
our
simplicities?
When
I
planned
the
main
hall
of
the
Colony
Club
I
determined
to
make
it
very
Colonial,
very
American,
very
inviting
and
comfortable,
the
sort
of
hall
you
like
to
remember
having
seen
in
an
old
Virginia
house.
One
enters
from
the
street
into
a
narrow
hall
that
soon
broadens
into
a
spacious
and
lofty
living-hall.
The
walls
are,
of
course,
white,
the
paneled
spaces
being
broken
by
quaint
old
Colonial
mirrors
and
appropriate
lighting-fixtures.
There
is
a
great
fireplace
at
one
end
of
the
hall,
with
a
deep,
chintz-covered
davenport
before
it.
There
are
also
roomy
chairs
covered
with
the
same
delightful
chintz,
a
green
and
white
glazed
English
chintz
that
is
as
serviceable
as
it
is
beautiful.
Besides
the
chintz-covered
chairs,
there
are
two
old
English
chairs
covered
with
English
needlework.
These
chairs
are
among
the
treasures
of
the
Club.
There
are
several
long
mahogany
tables,
and
many
small
tea
tables.
The
rugs
are
of
a
spring
green--I
can
think
of
no
better
name
for
it.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
