230 HOW TO MAKE A COUNTRY PLACE 



Yacht Room. 



The yacht room duplicated the stateroom of a cruiser in berth, 

 locker, dead-lights, and even hardware, and was a favorite rendez- 

 vous for land sailors as well as a boy's paradise, 



Morning Room. 



For real inspiration there is nothing like a morning room facing 

 the east, where one can see the rising sun filled with the promise 

 of a busy day. It had long been my dream, and in Pinnacle was 

 worked into reality, being simply furnished for reading, writing and 

 lounging. 



Mirror Doors and Mirrors. 



On the same floor was the sewing room, fitted with electric 

 sewing machines, latest pressing equipment, and several triplicate 

 mirrors and mirror doors, the latter so hung here and in bedrooms 

 that when open mirrors were opposite, a third in some instances set 

 between them in side walls. In one room the door mirror divided 

 into small squares, and in another curved wooden muntins were used. 

 There were mirrors on stair landings, at the ends of rooms, between 

 columns, over door heads even in the space between the trim sid- 

 ing two windows, in this case having carved, interlaced muntins across 

 the face. 



Mirage Rooms. 



Several unframed vista mirrors cutting through baseboards to 

 the floor extended the apparent size of our rooms indefinitely, espe- 

 cially after lights were turned on a scheme made more effective by 

 filling the entire space between two openings with a mirror and con- 

 cealing side and head trim with portieres. A friend christened these 

 unwalled illusion rooms mirage rooms. 



Bath Closets and Bathrooms. 



That in which today even tenement life revels, the comfy of 

 the tub, was practically unknown to mediaeval England. Both thane 

 and yokel, in the crudeness of the times, made their advent and exit 

 without it. 



Most masters' bedrooms either connected with bath or the sub- 

 stitute bath closet, wherein the entire floor space is occupied by the 

 tub, fitted with shower and long swivel faucets reaching close to the 

 front, forming both wash basin and tub. As these closets adjoined 

 bathrooms, very little extra piping was required. A glass fronted water 

 tight niche protected the electric light. Our preference was for the 

 completely enameled steel tub, rather than solid porcelain which when 

 filled with water weighs over a ton and absorbs much of the heat. 

 Two set twelve inches below floor line were safely railed in, the 

 extra depth required taken from the room beneath, in one case a 

 closet, in the other a butler's pantry. By the use of square end six 



