TREVISTA 



broad spaces of wall, where homely whitewash forms an economical and 

 satisfactory substitute for superficial and mechanical artistry. Adjoining 

 this hall is the dining-recess, a feature which has already been described. 

 The drawing-room is also so arranged in connection with the hall as to give, 

 when required, a combined room over forty feet in length, while the position 

 of the fireplace in the drawing-room not only gives a certain seclusion, but 

 allows of a window there to the south. 



The functions of the garden-room have already been dwelt on, and it is 

 here placed to command the main garden vista. 



Turning to the consideration of the rooms on the left of the central axis 

 of the plan, it will be noted that the staircase is so situated that a separate 

 staircase for the servants will not be required. The children's room is long 

 and low, with a sunny outlook to the garden, and a wide ingle fireplace. 

 Here, as elsewhere, the structure is all, or nearly all, the decoration, and 

 so the interior acquires a certain dignity and reality which cannot be 

 realised by the cunningest schemes of paper and paint. To the north of this 

 the kitchen premises are well isolated, and in occupying the position of 

 honour overlooking the road represent a radical departure from the average 

 scheme for a house. A covered way or entry here isolates, but gives dry 

 access, to the coal-cellar and w.c., and forms a part incidentally of one oftiie 

 three vistas which are the basis of the whole scheme. 



On the upper floor there are four bedrooms and bathroom, while above 

 in the roof the space admits of further development ; and besides the 

 servants' bedroom, cistern-room, and boxroom, a study or studio might be 

 formed there, or additional bedrooms if required. 



In considering the garden scheme, it may first be noted that in addition 

 to the three main vistas there are two subsidiary ones, one of which is 

 opposite the bay-window to the hall, and the other opposite the window to 

 the children's room, and these help to confirm ths unity of plan in house 

 and garden, which has already been alluded to. The regularity of the out- 

 line of the site and the assumed, absence ot natural features on an approxi- 

 mately level site are all attributes which suggest, and indeed demand, 

 formality of design. There are occasions and places where it would be 

 equally reasonable and inevitable to admit natural features as the basis of the 

 scheme, and to depart from the rectangular in the formation of paths. But 

 here to do so would be to indulge in unreasonable affectations of design, and 

 so the rose garden opposite the south front of the house is symmetrically 

 disposed, culminating in the central dipping-well, a feature so practically 

 useful for watering flowers with water which has been exposed all day to the 

 sun, surrounding which roses wreathed on arches, and festooned on chains 

 seem to join hands as in some ancient country dance round the maypole. 



This rose garden is flanked on each side by semicircular recesses for seats, 

 and from the lawn it is divided by an open screen of climbing roses. The 

 lawn itself presents an open space of shaven turf, flanked on each side by 

 pergolas, which seem to be the side aisles of a floral church, while at the end 

 of the lawn another semicircular recess forms the terminal feature to the 



