AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS January, 1912 
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The interior of the sunroom is both homelike and thoroughly attractive 
enclosure, which is flooded with sunshine on bright days, but 
in which, by reason of its generous proportions, one is never 
compelled to sit in the glare of the sun’s direct rays. 
The beamed ceiling of the living-room is repeated in effect 
in the large and handsomely furnished dining-room, directly 
across the hall. As one enters this room the fireplace is 
directly ahead, the doorway to the right leading to the cozy 
“den” and the doorway to the left to the attractive little 
breakfast-room, beyond which is the butler’s pantry, leading 
from the spacious, well-planned kitchen. The service-wing 
is ideal in its arrangement, and presents features that can- 
not fail to interest home-planners, to whom the problem of 
arranging the service portion of the house successfully has 
presented itself. It is not often that so generous a section 
of the dwelling is given over to the needs of those to whom 
is entrusted the task of its routine, and the present plan, both 
in the lower and the upper stories, will commend itself to 
delightfully inviting homelike qualities is, after all, in the’ i everyone taking into account the requirements of the service 
writer’ s opinion, the sort of a house that best expresses the, | quarters of the well-ordered household. Note the unob- 
|| ‘structed light derived from the large windows in the kitchen, 
|| and that these, having the same cheerful outlook that one 
has from the dining-room and the living-room, are yet away 
The one-story sunroom, with its terrace-roof, forms a wing to the house} 
a ele ot of which a spacious hall opens, running}! 
through to the rear entrance, with lavatory and closet-roomf!’ , from the line of the windows of this portion of the house 
under the broad stairway. To the right of the hall a broad}: by reason of the recession of the wall. The service-porch 
square arch leads into the living-room, French windows at\!’'is spacious and quite apart from the other porches of the 
the end of which, on either side of the fireplace, give access}); house, and out of range of the line of vision from them. 
to a sunroom, one of the most attractive features of the The laundry and the storeroom are especially well worked 
house. ‘This is informally furnished in willow furniture and} i out, and the back stairway has its own hall, well aside from 
pieces upon Mission lines, and the ferns and other foliage} 
plants placed about further lend color and cheeriness to this’ 
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the rest of the house, but leading, by three steps, to the rear 
entrance, opening upon a cement platform. All the bed- 
The spacious, cheery Aine -room opens from the hall upon the left 
The bedrooms are all well planned, well lighted and well ventilated 
