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The shingle roof should have a two foot overhang and its kick-up 

 rafters a fourteen-inch dip, the soffit covered with cement on gal- 

 vanized wire lath. 



Windows on first story should be sash-hung, giving greater 

 security, less draught and being more easily screened. They may be 

 fitted with automatic sash bar locks, lower lights to be of plate glass, 

 upper in small squares, or if in one pane it may be squared or 

 diamonded with wooden strips laid over the glass. Extra size pockets 

 save the expense of leaden weights. Second story windows in the 

 main are casements with triple rabbeted and lipped jointure. The 

 third floor should have sliding windows under the eaves for moderate 

 light and much ventilation, but in the gables use wide curved bays 

 with not over eighteen-inch centre projection, bracket supported, 

 shaded by pent eaves. One eyebrow on the front and two lift dormers 

 on the rear of the roof are ample. Set all windows when possible 

 as mullioned triplets; head trim and apron practically in one piece, 

 and build sleeping porches over east and west wings. 



Porch wings should be featured as outdoor eating and living 

 rooms, with breeze-wooing open rails, space against the house wain- 

 scoted, and capped with plate rack, smooth cement wall above painted 

 and covered with thoroughly water-proofed burlap and the ceiling, 

 cemented on galvanized wire lath, crossed with hollow cement or 

 wooden beams, and verdure canopied. 



The floor of red cement, cored with galvanized wire mesh, 

 has embedded in one of its twenty-four inch squares a patina colored 

 copper arrow pointing north. Joints of the tapestry brick chim- 

 ney are raked-out. Set in house wall on the east end, directly 

 over the door-head a glass fronton, say eight feet wide and two feet 

 high, as an over-lintel a giant wardian case filled with plants and 

 mosses from the woods, the inner sash arranged to open in extremely 

 cold weather, a glimpse of woodland all the year around. On 

 the south wall fit a mottoed sun dial with time equation. 



Entrance steps facing three ways in monument style are of red 

 cement, crandaled for safety, and lead from porte cochere glass 

 roofed to avoid undue shadowing to the east wing porch with 

 its slightly convex red cement walk four feet wide. The door mat 

 is inset, and an antique scraper bent to match the curved edge of 

 the step firmly embedded in the cement. This glassed-in entrance 

 porch gives a bower of bloom at all seasons. Flower beds border each 

 side of the s walk, sloping from porch foundation, and singing birds 

 greet all corners. 



The oak-battened, iron-studded Dutch door is fitted with bulls' 

 eyes, a ten-inch Bastile lock, and an electric knocker in the form of 

 a knight's vizor in which is cut the name of the villa and on the 

 marble sill is inscribed the word "Venitas." The porch is columned, 



