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THE HOUSE AND ITS EQUIPMENT. 



but those to the south and west are fitted with shutters, which roll up arid leave the whole opening free. 

 While there are views from the room to all quarters of the compass, only the warm winds have access. 

 It will be seen from Fig. 177 that the room is built between a corner of the house and the garden wall, 

 and thus forms an integral part of the architectural scheme, while it is for practical purposes distinct. 



All the examples so far given, except the last, which was not intended for dining, are adjuncts to 

 existing houses, and it is difficult in those circumstances to reach the perfection of arrangement that is to 

 say, to provide a place with every amenity of exposure and outlook at a point where service from the 

 kitchen is easy. There is. therefore, added a set of drawings and a plan by Mr. C. E. Mallows showing 

 the corner of a proposed house carefully designed to provide large spaces, covered and uncovered, for 

 the enjoyment of sedentary outdoor life. The scheme is an example of due consideration being given 

 to the ideal features of an outdoor meal-room. The inner dining-room faces east, and is pushed out 

 with a great bay that enables it to have a south window, and the loggia, or open-air room, is a 

 continuation of this bay, which has three large window-doors opening on to it. 



The north wall of this projecting wing masks the back-yard, and there is no aperture in it, partly 

 on that account and partly because protection from the winds of that quarter is desirable. But the east 



178. AN IDEAL OUTDOOR ROOM : LOOKING ACROSS THE Lot 



end has three apertures between massive pillars corresponding to the door-windows of the bay, and there 

 are three others towards the south. Thus a particularly charming garden picture is obtained from the 

 dining-room, whence, across the shaded area of the loggia, the sun is seen pla\dng upon lawn and flower-bed 

 and lighting up the distant landscape. A somewhat greater intimacy with the garden is reached in the 

 loggia itself. An ample stairway descends southward on to the great plat before the house, while to the 

 east three steps lead to a random-flagged terrace sheltered from the north by a high wall. On this terrace, 

 when the summer evenings are particularly warm and settled, dinner may be served. For there, is no doubt 

 that the perfection of open-air dining is to have nothing overhead between you and the sky. The fading 

 of the daylight, the lighting up of the western sky, the sudden beaming forth of the evening star, at first 

 occupying alone the pearly grey of the heavens, but shortly joined by myriad companions as night gains 

 the ascendency all this can only be thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated on such a terrace as Mr. Mallows 

 here gives us. 



But ours is not a climate where evenings of settled warmth and calm are frequent or to be depended 

 upon, and dinner will, therefore, be far more often served within the eighteen-foot square of the loggia, 



