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  2. Eastlake movement - Wikipedia

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    The entry to the living rooms are double pocket doors and the living room ceiling is surrounded with box molding and underneath it, a picture rail. The floor is a carpeted hardwood floor with a plain 12-inch baseboard and all other rooms contain the same floor and ceiling finishes with a few variations in the walls.

  3. Ogden Codman Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Ogden Codman Jr. (January 19, 1863 – January 8, 1951) was an American architect and interior decorator in the Beaux-Arts styles, and co-author with Edith Wharton of The Decoration of Houses (1897), which became a standard in American interior design.

  4. American colonial architecture - Wikipedia

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    The standard vernacular house built by the colonists in this region between the first settlement in 1607 and the end of British rule in 1776 followed the I-plan format, had either interior or exterior gable chimneys, and was either wooden or brick. Most were only one room deep. Academic architecture was evident, but it was relatively scarce.

  5. Primitive decorating - Wikipedia

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    Primitive decorating is a style of decorating using primitive folk art style that is characteristic of a historic or early Americana time period, typically using elements with muted colors and a rough and simple look to them. Decorating in the primitive style can incorporate either true antiques or contemporary folk art. [1]

  6. The Decoration of Houses - Wikipedia

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    The Decoration of Houses, a manual of interior design written by Edith Wharton with architect Ogden Codman, was first published in 1897. In the book, the authors denounce Victorian-style interior decoration and interior design, especially rooms decorated with heavy window curtains, Victorian bric-a-brac and overstuffed furniture. They argue ...

  7. Dorothy Draper - Wikipedia

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    Dorothy Draper (November 22, 1889 – March 11, 1969) was an American interior decorator.Stylistically very anti-minimalist, she used bright, exuberant colors and large prints that encompassed whole walls.

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