TREATMENT OF WALLS 



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FIG. 284. Doorway at Bourdon House, Mayfair, London. 



House, London (Fig. 284), where there is carving enough to 

 impart interest to the design without over-weighting it ; and 

 at Seckford Hall, in Suffolk, is a simple but effective treatment 

 (Fig. 285) which is well within the compass of an ordinary 

 joiner. A great variety of effect can be obtained at small cost 

 by dint of a little thought and a determination not to be too 

 much bound by correct precedents. It is one of the failings 

 of the ordinary eighteenth-century designer that he feared to 

 depart from the patterns published in books. 



Very great changes in the manner of treating the walls of 

 a room occurred during the course of the century. At first 

 they were panelled with wood not with the small panels of 

 Jacobean times, but with large panels surrounded by bold 

 mouldings, such as those at Denham Place (Fig. 287). Here 



