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and beamed ceiling, was a veritable Sahara in July and August, as 

 it faced south, but much used in early spring and late fall, being 

 easily screened with glass, netting or awning. Loungingly furnished, 

 it made life in the open possible for an even ten months. When 

 southwest winds blew too strongly across the porch room or steam 

 heat became unbearable, our solarium proved a welcome retreat. 



The indoor effect of the porch room we emphasized by using a 

 water-tight wainscot seven feet high, thoroughly painted on both 

 front and back, and fastened firmly against the house. Over it a 

 plate rack was set four inches from the wall, the open space protected 

 by a strip of galvanized wire mesh. Wall area above the wainscot 

 was covered with painted and stenciled burlap. A broad brick tiled 

 terrace, handsomer, though more expensive, than cement, joined the 

 porch room. The combination brick and tile honeycombed parapet 

 railed atop with plants gave protection from the fifty foot ravine 

 edging the terrace. 



A couple of settles against the veranda rail extended beyond the 

 guard rail line, and woven galvanized wire instead of the usual hard 

 board seat supported the cushion. This projecting rail protected seat 

 gave an uninterrupted outlook on three sides, and overhung the deep 

 cliffed ravine, while wide eaves shadowed and shielded it. 



Ten foot spaces between the supporting posts of one pergola 

 were filled with a hedge barrier of fine-fibred Japanese privet and the 

 wistaria centred pergola broadened at one end into a square tea house 

 overlooking the ravine and the formal garden. Garden terraces 

 pierced by closely cropped firmed and squared turf steps led to level 

 underdrained grass paths ribbons of velvet green stretching between 

 borders of flaming color while side entrances gave necessary ingress 

 and egress to the several outlying features. 



Pergolad Clothes Yard. 



The clothes yard close by, hidden from view, had free circula- 

 tion of air. A latticed, vine-embowered screen, with arched gate was 

 our first thought, but a grassy slope facing the southeast was finally 

 enclosed with a seven foot cement wall covered with climbing vines, 

 and pergolad and side-grilled to catch the breeze. The entrance was 

 through a gate balanced with clanking chain and cannon ball. In 

 another yard we capped the honeycombed wall with red tile. An 

 additional pergola screened the servants' portion of the house and 

 path leading to the service gate. Between column bases were metal- 

 lined, well-drained plant boxes covered with rough bark. 



Awninged Platform. 



Against the house instead of the objectionable covered veranda, 

 often too narrow to be really useful, and always darkening the rooms, 

 we built an awninged platform on the outer edge of w r hich 

 posts supported a plate. On this and projecting three feet beyond 



