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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scoutshouse, post: 146167, member: 267&quot;]I think it&#039;s hilarious that my friend says her house is &quot;grown up.&quot; The not very subtle message she&#039;s putting out to us &quot;artistic&quot; types is that she&#039;s got it together. </p><p><br /></p><p>I guess because she loves wallpaper and curtain treatments, her house is one of great sophistication, and I know by now the single best way to make her happy is to praise her taste (you can imagine how she feels if we don&#039;t!!!).</p><p><br /></p><p>Somehow I&#039;m annoyed AND tickled - I&#039;ll so never tell her that her mahogany side table from Bombay is mostly particle board. </p><p><br /></p><p>And when I tell my other friend (a hoarder of nice things and always tragically short of cash) a small bronze sculpture is a Hagenauer and probably worth a few bucks - she wonders why I&#039;m so &quot;interested&quot; in her stuff? </p><p><br /></p><p>She runs estate sales, but doesn&#039;t have enough curiosity to be interested, and doesn&#039;t even know what her hoard of Fostoria American glass is called...</p><p><br /></p><p>Good or bad, classically valid or executed or not, things tell a story about time, culture, practicality, creativity, wealth, education - to many things to mention - that I find endlessly fascinating.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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