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A timeless tendency I love: lacquered walls.  For those of you lot who don't know, Frank too I are moving to Maryland. (Finally! Goodbye, Lehigh Valley!) It close probable won't survive on until the halt of the year, simply that hasn't stopped me from house-hunting —and, of course,  imagining how I'd decorate my favorite properties.  I'm peculiarly enamored amongst a brick abode built inwards 1893, amongst its soaring 10-foot ceilings, bag doors, too hand-stamped hinges.  It's the perfect abode for an elegant decorating tendency I've had my optic on: lacquered walls. This high-gloss pigment complete is maybe close associated amongst the Hollywood Regency style — known for its glamourous finishings, amongst a slight Asian influence. Makes sense: Lacquering has its roots inwards ancient East Asia, good earlier Hollywood Regency borrowed the shiny finish.   The earliest iterations of lacquer involved harvesting the toxic sap of a tree native to East