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THE
HOUSE IN GOOD TASTE
I
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN HOUSE
I KNOW of nothing more significant than the
awakening of men and women throughout our
country to the desire to improve their houses.
Call it what you will-awakening, development,
American Renaissance it is a most startling and prom-
ising condition of affairs.
It is no longer possible, even to people of only
faintly aesthetic tastes, to buy chairs merely to sit
upon or a clock merely that it should tell the time.
Home-makers are determined to have their houses, out-
side and in, correct according to the best standards.
What do we mean by the best standards? Certainly
not those of the useless, overcharged house of the
average American millionaire, who builds and furnishes
his home with a hopeless disregard of tradition. We
must accept the standards that the artists and the
architects accept, the standards that have come to us
from those exceedingly rational people, our ancestors.
Our ancestors built for stability and use, and so their
simple houses were excellent examples of architecture.
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