The Home Snob

Archive for November 2008

Edith Wharton: Down with wallpaper!

Posted by: thehomesnob on: November 2, 2008

“It was well for the future of house-decoration when medical science declared itself against the use of wall-papers. These hangings have, in fact, little to recommend them. Besides being objectionable on sanitary grounds, they are inferior as a wall-decoration to any form of treatment, however simple, that maintains, instead of effacing, the architectural lines of [...]

Dr. D’s Dictionary: “Turkish corner”

Posted by: thehomesnob on: November 1, 2008

The Home Snob doesn’t know everything about decor.  That fact was brought home on her October visit to the Molly Brown House Museum.  In the entry hall, the very first room of the tour, the guide casually referred to Mrs. Brown’s Turkish corner, a sort of tented window seat decorated in Ottoman style.  The Home [...]