The Livable House 



property chosen as will accommodate not only the building itself 

 but the garden as well, in order that the two may be treated as a 

 unit and the garden continue the lines of the house. 



Preferably it should continue them away from the road or en- 

 trance side of the house in order to catch something of the remote 

 feeling which belongs to woods and fields, and will not co-exist 

 with automobiles and delivery wagons. These necessities should 

 be provided for in such a way as to leave one side of the house free 

 for garden, and as much of the grounds as possible unbroken by 

 road ; which means that forethought must be brought to bear when 

 the house is being planned and such details settled as the position 

 of the furnace, so that the finished house will not be discovered 

 with a coal window accessible only through the flower garden, or 

 a garage occupying the best possible outlook from the living-room 

 windows. Nine times out of ten on a place too small to provide 

 room for tucking the garage and outbuildings away out of sight 

 from the house, these buildings will group advantageouslv near 

 the kitchen wing, even form a part of the same structure bv the 

 use of such connecting features as grape arbors or trellis or the 

 much-misused pergola. An arrangement by which the service 

 portions of a place are kept together automaticallv guarantees 

 one or more sides of the house open for lawn or garden, or both, 

 and makes for convenience as well. 



But with the wisdom of this plan admitted, it is often no easy 

 thing to so place the group on the ground as to make it accessible 

 from the street with any beauty or dignity of approach, not to 

 mention ease and convenience. 



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