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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



August, 1905 



"Crow's Nest" — The Living- Room 



balustrade with newel post. The fireplace is built of 

 rough brick with dark headers, and all laid in Flemish bond. 

 The facing of the fireplace rises up to the ceiling, and its 

 height is broken by a rough-hewn shelf, supported on similar 

 brackets, all of which have retained their bark. A long 

 settle, built of rough-sawn stuff, forms a very inviting retreat 

 beside the fireplace. 



The dining-room opens from the living-room by a broad 

 arch, so that when occasion demands both rooms may be 

 thrown into one. This dining-room is treated similarly to the 

 living-room, and is furnished with corner cupboards and 

 shelves over the same. The butler's pantry, which is fitted 

 up complete, forms an entrance to the kitchen, which is also 

 fitted with all the necessary improvements, including a 

 large store pantry. There is a stairway to the cellar, 

 and the rear stairway to the second story is in combination 

 with the front staircase. 



The second and third 

 stories, with the exception 

 of two rooms, are plastered 

 throughout with rough fin- 

 ish. The two bedrooms re- 

 ferred to are sheathed from 

 the floor to the ceiling with 

 rough matched boards, and 

 are stained, giving a very 

 soft and pleasing effect 

 after the room is furnished. 



The floors throughout 

 the house are of hard pine. 

 The hardware on the inside 

 of the house is of iron. 

 The house has electric bells 

 and thoroughly modern 

 plumbing. There is no 

 paint used on the inside of 

 the house, for everything 

 is stained in brown, gray 

 and green, so that the in- 

 terior effect is most har- 

 monious and ideal for a 

 summer home. 



Simple as this house is in 



design, it is an excellent 

 illustration of the possibili- 

 ties of the bungalow type of 

 dwelling. It contains, as 

 the plans show, and as the 

 descriptions and the pho- 

 tographs of the interior 

 make clear, but two 

 main rooms on the first 

 floor. Yet these two rooms, 

 the living-room and the 

 dining-room, are in them- 

 selves quite sufficient, with 

 the kitchen and its depen- 

 dencies, to make a complete 

 house — a house complete 

 in essential apartments, and, 

 in this particular case, of 

 sufficient size to make them 

 thoroughly adaptable t o 

 every essential requirement. 

 An analysis of the plans 

 shows how very admirably 

 this result has been secured. 

 The first story plan shows 

 the house to consist of three 

 cubes, one for the living- 

 room, one for the dining-room, and a third for the kitchen. 

 This is speaking generally, of course, for the dimensions of 

 these rooms are by no means cubical. The comparison, how- 

 ever, shows the simplicity of the plan in its basic form. The 

 ffices which form the spaces subsidiary to the kitchen are 

 outside the basic cubes of the first floor, but are necessary to 

 the convenience of the dwelling. 



Artistic expression is given to the house by the porch, 

 which surrounds it on two sides, and the built-out upper story 

 of the second floor. This arrangement entirely modifies the 

 aspect of the building and thoroughly removes the cubical 

 idea from the upper story. There are, of course, to be found 

 the bedrooms and the bathroom, all of which are en- 

 tered from a central hall. This second story is eco- 

 nomical in the disposition of the space and is quite beyond 

 criticism. 



"Crow's Nest" — The Fireplace in Living- Room 



