HOUSES AND GARDENS 



arrange a linen closet, which contains the hot-water cylinder, which serves the 

 double purpose of keeping the linen dry and the bathroom warm. In a 

 slightly larger house in addition to this general bathroom there may be 

 a bath and basin fitted up in the master's dressing-room, and fitted wash- 

 stands with hot and cold water in the bedrooms help materially to reduce 

 the labour of the house. The housemaid's closet with its slop sink and 

 space for pails and brooms, is also an important feature in the house. In 

 larger houses each bedroom or suite of bedrooms will be provided with 

 its separate bathroom, and here it will often be admissible to indulge in a 

 bath-room which may possess some of the beauties of the classic baths. 

 In the house for an art-lover illustrated a scheme for a bathroom is shown 

 in which a circular central bath lined with mosaic is surrounded by a marble 

 pavement. The bathroom itself is octagonal in form, each angle being 

 formed by a column, between which niches in the walls give spaces for special 

 baths. The roof of blue mosaic represents a mimic firmament, from the 

 centre of which showers descend at will. The whole of this interior 

 represents an arrangement of broad slabs of marble, of which the most 

 prominent is the green Irish Connemara, which, with its deep tones of varied 

 green, seems to suggest the still depths of some mountain pool. To 

 complete the colour scheme one must imagine the deep green tones of this 

 marble relieved by the brightness of the silver fittings and the opalescent 

 tints of the Norwegian midnight sun marble which appears to contain all 

 the hues of a sunset. 



The swimming-bath is a luxury which might well form a feature in the 

 large modern house, and, if circumstances allow of the use of marble, mosaic 

 and stained glass arranged in a definite colour scheme it would be possible 

 to realise a dream of the enchanted palaces of fairy land. The bath itself, 

 lined with mosaic of green, blue, purple, and gold, would appear as a little 

 inland sea shimmering with colour. Around it would stand the white 

 columns which support the blue dome, in which golden stars lean over the 

 water. 



Broad spaces of white marble would cover the surrounding walls, warmed 

 to an opalescent beauty by the coloured lights from the stained -glass 

 windows, and set with coloured marbles, used as jewels are in the white 

 setting. In the effects of artificial light one may imagine a dim yellow moon 

 reflected in the purple water, which would appear as that sea over which 

 Goorelka sailed in her cockle-shell " enchanted even to the very bed." 



