HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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Unfinished plaster walls should be used only where the woodwork 
is of such character that it is decorative in itself 
The semi-informal room as here, where there is a roughly finished 
fireplace, may well have a rough surface plaster wall 
In this house, the brickwork and the cypress would be too heavy for 
delicate wall treatment, and the plaster is rough and undecorated 
Here the walls have the suggestion of massiveness, so rough plaster is 
used, which permits a relief frieze in colors, but of the same material 
Where there is delicately carved woodwork, the walls should not have 
an informal treatment. They should be finished smooth and papered 
White woodwork requires a touch of color. The walls in such rooms 
as this should never be finished with rough plaster 
ROUGH OR SMOOTH PLASTER WALLS-WHICH SHALL IT BE? 
