EXTERIOR FEATURES 359 



projecting settles which, if placed equidistant from ends, will vary 

 the stiff, straight balustrade line and give unobstructed view; gal- 

 vanized iron wire mesh forming the seat under water-proofed canvas 

 cushions. 



A side porch will be shielded but not shadowed from the north- 

 west winter winds by a framed sheet of plate glass fastened firmly at 

 settle top and porch eave, and the lower light of the porch window 

 screened with leaded glass. 



Cellar bulkhead doors fitted with wire-glass set in metal cov- 

 ered frames, buttresses at their sides raised three feet above grade, 

 will balk that burning-over fire that sometimes reaches a bulk- 

 head door ; built of cement and hollowed for plants they would 

 brighten the servants' porch end of the house. 



The swimming pool, an outdoor affair, glass enclosed in winter, 

 serves the double purpose of reflecting the villa "from turret to 

 foundation stone," as well as flowering shrub and towering elm, and 

 gives exhilarating enjoyment on warm sultry days, the incoming 

 water filtered for germ protection. Electric lights circle its edge. 

 The expense of building may be somewhat curtailed as the soil 

 can be used to grade the pool-centred esplanade connecting by an 

 arbre-arched gate with a patio, which will greatly aid in giving a 

 true infront and outfront. 



A fireproof filing-cabinet-room, 10'xlO'xlO' (which may prove 

 a grand money saver) can be built about fifty feet from the house, 

 in which to store maps, deeds, valuable papers, films, plates, etc. 

 Constructed of cement, lined with boiler iron, and electrically con- 

 nected with the owner's room by wire buried in a cement-grouted 

 ditch, it will prove a first class time and money saver, located on trifle 

 lower ground than the house site, and the roof, capped with a belve- 

 dere of cement, iron and tile, it would make a capital tea and break- 

 fast room as well as a siesta nook, the connecting walk to the east 

 porch-room shaded by a vine-embowered and plant centred pergola 

 which, with belvedere, would completely disguise the somewhat com- 

 mercial appearance of the filing-room, give presence far in excess of 

 the additional expense, and improve infront and outfront. 



If a tree grows close to the servants' porch encircle it with the 

 platform that leads to the clothes yard, and in the largest limb 

 crotch build a tree eyrie reached by railed and platformed steps. 

 From its topmost branches a bird trolley can travel to the box- 

 greenery window in the sewing-room, and occasionally the more 

 courageous songsters may venture among the house plants. 



In the exterior wall, as in the old Saxon days, may be attempted 

 a copper or terra cotta panel designed along graffito lines. 



The pergola, which can be made an extravagant adjunct or an 

 inexpensive adornment, will help greatly in dragging down the 

 height of the house and connect it with the extension Colonial flower- 



