BEDROOMS AND BATHROOMS 355 



Water and heating pipes should be carried to porch rooms and 

 sleeping porches and when not used capped, and sill cocks, including 

 one non-freezing, installed at important exterior points. 



Careful planning will evolve a secret room 6' x 6' x 6'. 



In a Moorish room the bed alcove may be arched from floor to 

 ceiling with a Moorish arch fifteen feet wide at the centre and the 

 same design carried out in the brick arch of a fireplace. Transoms 

 may be regulated by inset wall fixtures instead of the usual ugly 

 adjuster, some panels fronting closets fitted with invisible locks and 

 hinges and where wainscots are not used the base trim of main rooms 

 made eighteen inches high. 



The second-story hall will have a fireplace and in a far away 

 corner on this floor it may be possible to work in a convenient, 

 windowed trunk and storage room and a housemaid's sink closet. 

 A dark hall and stair landing may be lighted by a glass transom over 

 a bedroom door, and a bedroom with but one outside wall gains 

 ventilation and light from a transom or translucent glass window 

 opening into a hall. 



The silver sheen of the bird's-eye maple room in both trim and 

 furniture can be kept by selecting a northern exposure, realizing that 

 sun-baked bird's-eye maple takes on a dingy yellow meerschaum shade. 



A curved top bed-head alcove with twin beds placed on a round- 

 cornered dais would permit at either side closets for madame and 

 master. Over a brass rod extending outward from the wall tapestry 

 may be draped. 



The theft of a bedroom closet from a larger room without 

 causing an ugly jog to ceiling height in either can be easily accom- 

 plished by building a false front cabinet six feet high, the interior 

 to be lathed and plastered and entered from the smaller room. 



Bedrooms not connected with bathrooms will have dressing 

 rooms, allowing open window sleeping of the chilliest but healthiest 

 kind. 



The third story shall have one large room with a broad bay, 

 three servants' bedrooms, and a bathroom sided with sheets of white 

 glass. On this floor there could be a cement-walled, wooden-floored, 

 children's play room, deadened under-floor, and walls decorated 

 with nursery tales, vaulted ceiling painted to represent a winter's 

 sky, and the explanatory astronomical key framed in a door panel. 

 Windows should be high and wide and protected by low grilles. A 

 tower billiard room ceiled to the peak might be decorated with fleecy 

 clouds and darting swallows. In an attic studio on the north, 

 windows should be guarded by low metal grilles, and extend from 

 one foot above the floor to ceiling height. From the peak could be 

 suspended a trio of geese headed due north. 



The clerestory, our room-in-the-air, has little in common with 

 the hot, barely-enough-space-to-turn-in, cupola of the village squire, 



