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I will never go to this D.C. Design House or the Decorators' Show House until those rooms begin to reflect that we are living in the 21st century, not the 18th ["What We Saw at the Show House," April 17]. I was appalled that the writer described the house as "one of the most refreshing showcases for Washington interior design talent in years." There were ruffles and froufrous everywhere and not a single clean line to be seen. Many contemporary furniture stores have opened in the D.C. area, and mid-century modern is having an expensive revival. Come, let's get with it: Down with the shutters! It's time to leave the Colonial era!
Sue Driesen
Bethesda
This house is a disaster. It was an interesting Federal house but has been turned into a Great Falls blah -- expensively uninteresting, completely without character -- and irreversibly so. The classic Federal interior design has been thrown away. After one gets in the front door, there is no sign that the house is approximately 175 years old. Well, yes, the beams are reused in the den, but not that they had to be. Most Federal houses still have their original beams. And why plane them down and lose their most appealing quality, their lovely orangey-brown color?
And why wasn't anything said about the house's best room, the garden in the back? It's really lovely, in large part because they kept the old cryptomerias.
Henry Townsend
Washington
