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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
February, 1912 
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The dining-room is one of the most beautiful rooms in the Phillips house, charming in the elegance of its simplicity, and yet thoroughly homelike 
cement floor is so designed as to suggest an Oriental rug 
effect. The main stairs leading to the living-room floor 
winds around the chimney, and the dominating feature of 
the plan is the spaciousness and privacy of the living-room 
floor, which is gained by the entrance stairs coming up from 
the reception-room below, while it does not cut the main 
floor plan into two parts, as in the typical Colonial house. 
To live in a house with a large central living-room running 
One of the well-designed chimneys in the Phillips house 
up through two floors with a balcony, gives an effect of 
spaciousness and freedom commensurate with life in the 
country. In this house the same freedom is carried through 
the whole house, lending to the enjoyment of its occupancy. 
The living-room has a loggia at each end, with double- 
hinged casements, and when thrown open the entire southern 
front of the house can be made into one large room, forty- 
eight feet long. The west loggia opens directly into the 
formal garden. It also has a door leading through a 
pantry into the kitchen, making a delightful room in which 
to serve breakfast or afternoon tea. The loggias, glassed-in 
in winter (as they are heated), make fine conservatories. 
When one considers the value of the loggia in the framing 
of the picture of the landscape and in enhancing vistas, it 
is not surprising that Mr. Phillips has chosen it in the place 
of the customary porch. 
The living-room fireplace is most interesting, with the 
balcony above, and the seats at the ends of the recess form 
an inglenook which gives a home-like air to the room, 
which might otherwise be rather formal because of its lofty 
ceiling and decorative arched window. ‘The work on the 
mantelpiece was executed by the owner by designing the 
ornament on the fresh cement, and then cutting away with a 
sharp tool before the material had set. The ceilings of the 
living-room and the dining-room enjoy a medieval effect 
not unlike those of the simple old Hollandish interiors, a re- 
sult which was obtained by staining the structural beams a dark 
brown and plastering in between. The plaster walls were 
