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CHAPTER VII BUNGALOWS. 



RESTCLIFF PORTABLE HOUSE CLIFF EYRIE TINY COTE CRAGS 

 FAIRVIEW TREE TOP HEARTSEASE SEA BOULDERS. 



THE bungalow of today, taking its name from far-off Bengal, is, 

 with the addition of a big living room, porch, and wide over- 

 hang, the one-story cottage of one hundred odd years ago. When I 

 had the bungalow fever it was an unnamed disease in our section. 



Shack Bungalow. 



Our cheapest bungalows might almost be called roofed verandas, 

 so open to air and sunlight are they. Six weeks or so of respite from 

 the stilted life that strains; this is what the cheap shack bungalow 

 stands for. No cellar, bunked bedrooms, roofed back porch and 

 kitchen a step higher than damp, dank, floored or unfloored tent 

 life or even canvas-walled framed shelters. In form and size these 

 outing homes are as varied as the demands of the owner or the mood 

 of the architect if there happens to be one. 



There may be only a living room for everything but sleeping and 

 cooking; but cooking must be done in an outside galley, if it's no 

 more than a lean-to or tent. An upstairs loft with ventilating 

 louvres, a wide veranda, the lake or Sound for a bath, and the tree- 

 swung, screened-from-insect hammock, complete the essentials for this 

 sort of outing. I have even built some bungalows with wide, swing- 

 ing barn doors hung on strongly made strap hinges and for greater 

 convenience hinged in the middle making at times four doors as 

 two the whole width of the living room ; the wide space spanned by 

 a big G. P. timber, which fairly approximates living in the open.* 



The Obsolete Parlor. 



It was difficult to persuade the thrift-driven Yankee to give up 

 his once-a-year-wedding and funeral-parlor, commonize the black 

 hair cloth sofa, and allow daily living to come in contact with shell- 

 decorated mantel and curio-filled whatnot. Quaintly decorated walls 

 greeted one in that sacred enclosure. Framed mosses and autumn 

 leaves there were and black silhouettes paralleled with later Daguerres 

 of those who had gone before, and samplers worked by daughters of 

 the house at the age of wisdom nine but the piece de resistance 

 was the wall of mortuary memory which, like the Jew's wailing 

 place among the foot stones of Solomon's Temple at Jerusalem, fairly 



'A Folloiv-the-Sun Bungalow was one never tried experiment. As planned, it was a 

 four-roomed low building, a staunch turntable, a system of block chocking and post clamping 

 giving a tornado-proof grip on the foundation. Water and sewer pipes were made to "hitch 

 on" at fixed points with rubber connections. Result more sun or shade, as desired, and 

 changing views. 



