AN OLD HOUSE REMODELLED 



THIS little house, now occupied by the present writer, is illustrated 

 chiefly as an example of simple types of cottage furniture. 



It is essentially a house of small rooms, and the principal structural 

 modifications consisted in forming a hall by the removal of a partition. 

 The fireplace in the room so formed was then removed and the brick arch 

 which formed its structural basis left exposed. A coarse sacking was then 

 fixed on the walls as a background for the old furniture. 



In the small dining-room the upper part of the walls and the ceiling were 

 whitewashed, with a dark blue dado beneath. 



The exterior, thanks to its long low roof of weathered tiles and its setting 

 of trees, required nothing but a little white paint on the woodwork. 



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