PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



renewed with an occasional coating of black roofing 

 paint. In placing the studs between the posts, 

 spaces were left for the door and for windows on all 

 sides, to catch the breezes from every direction. 



This dainty tree house is quite elaborately fin- 

 ished in many details. Shingles painted moss green 

 are used for the roof, where a considerable saving 

 may be made by the use of heavy tar-paper or some 

 form of rubberoid roofing; and the house has been 

 sheathed with white pine, and covered on the outside 

 with hemlock slabs. A heavy Dutch door, slabFed on 

 the outside in harmony with the rest of the exterior 

 finish, gives entrance to the home. 



The wall surface of small tree rooms built some- 

 what after this plan may be cheapened and turned 

 into convenient closet spaces by omitting the sheath- 

 ing, and covering the studs and supports with 

 smooth, upright wainscoting. Between the outside 

 finish of hemlock slabs, or weather boarding, which 

 should be made water-tight, ten or twelve inches of 

 space should be left, and fitted with shelves. 

 These give the firmness of sheathing to the structure. 

 Instead of stationary wainscoting for the interior, it 

 is panelled and hinged in convenient sections, reach- 

 ing from floor to roof rafters. When the wainscot 

 doors are thrown open, they disclose closet space 

 in the bedroom or couch corner, for bed linen and 



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