I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.
A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.
No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.
There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.
To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.
It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.