HOUSES AND GARDENS 



accommodation is provided on the ground floor, there is little space wasted 



in the roof. 



The central feature of the plan consists of the large hall, or living-room, 

 a portion of which can be screened off if required. Access to the front door 

 and the bedrooms can be obtained from the kitchen premises without passing 

 through the hall itself. Under a slight extension of the roof is also included 

 a verandah or garden-room. 



The treatment of the garden in such a seaside house might well include 

 all those flowers and shrubs which flourish by the sea. The feathery foliage 

 of the tamarisk, the blue-greens and purples of the sea-holly, the puce-pink 

 flowers of the sea-thrift, the sea-lavender, the sea-poppy, and many other 

 seaside flowers, would combine to make an interesting and unique garden. 

 Here, too, might be grown that group of plants which, originally dwellers 

 by the sea, have been trained to live in inland gardens, and all these plants 

 would not present that air of protest which one often seems to discern in 

 flowers removed from their proper home, but would seem to rejoice in the 

 salt air and sea-breezes. 



The third plan for a holiday house was originally designed to meet the 

 demand in a special case for rather more than the usual number of bedrooms, 

 some of which are placed on the ground floor. 



The form of the plan, while giving a wide outlook from the hall by 

 placing the little terrace to the south between the protecting wings on each 

 side, shelters it from cold winds and makes it a trap for the sunlight. 



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