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doors under living-room windows — here the 

 blind side walls again prove their advantage 

 by making such a catastrophe impossible — and 

 take care that trees or shrubs or arbors do not 

 cut off what is obviously a cherished view, 

 even if this embraces nothing more worthy than 

 the distant corner of a busy street. If that 

 sort of thing is what these neighbors like, that 

 is the thing they enjoy looking at; do not de- 

 prive them of it if it is possible to do the best 

 by your own place without doing so. 



But on the other hand, never let a neighbor's 

 misconceptions and bad taste be an obstacle to 

 doing the very best that it is possible to do 

 with the home that you are building. Put your 

 house where it ought to go, making it the form 

 and size and style that you require; screen 

 what may need screening; fence, wall, or hedge 

 the entire property — invariably — and never 

 plan any part or feature so that it is in any 

 way dependent upon the property adjacent. 

 This is not to say that two places may not be 

 delightfully developed through mutual conces- 

 sions and by means of a unified plan that em- 

 braces both; but even in doing this, they should 

 be kept distinct. For, however amicable the 

 relations between two families may be, there is 

 always the possibility of a change in one or 



