Hints and tips:
...“American firms in particular tend to spend quite a bit more on design — sometimes they move into a glass and steel box and spend a fortune putting in dado rails,” said one leasing agent at a big developer...
...England under King George III, and under his sons George IV and William IV, was regarded as a place of questionable morals and frivolity....
...We can see an echo of it in the slim shadow that runs the length of the skirting or below a projecting dado rail....
...A picture called “Cape Girardeau, Mississippi” shows a grimy wall, split by a dado....
...OK, how about dado rails with hot peach underneath and magnolia above? Balls: Tell them Dulux paints, none of that Farrow & Ball....
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