February, 1912 
left in the natural color, and rather rough, which give a rich- 
ness in tone to the room. The trim of the living-room is 
cypress treated with a coat of white lead and oil and finished 
with a very thin coat of dull-finish enamel, which was put on 
thin enough to allow the graining of the wood to show. 
The accompanying illustration shows a dining-room of 
unusual charm and beauty. The color scheme employed 
there is brown—a brown of soft red shades—and there is 
considerable variety in the unique design of the mantel, with 
its brick of tapestry texture. A tapestry hangs on the wall. 
On the latter the painting of an Italian Madonna is placed, 
while heavily ribbed curtains of old-blue silk, with tapestry 
borders at the high bay-window, which extends almost to the 
ceiling beams, and the antique furniture complete the deco- 
rative scheme. Casement doors open into the east loggia, 
which attord charming views of the old apple orchard across 
the way and down a road overlooking the picturesque valley. 
The kitchen occupies the same relative position as the 
dining-room at the other end of the house, with the butler’s 
pantry between. The servants’ quarters, which is separated 
from the other floors of the house, is directly above the 
kitchen on the mezzanine floor—the same level as the 
balcony. From the balcony the stairs continue up behind 
the chimney to a landing in front of the studio door, which 
is four steps lower than the main bedroom floor. It is a real 
working studio, with a large north window, a brick fireplace 
and the ceiling running up to the underside of the roof 
rafters. At the southeast corner casement doors open into 
the sleeping-porch, from which a delightful view is obtained 
of the beautiful hillside country. From the stairhall, ad- 
joining the studio, an open flight of stairs leads to the attic, 
call 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 53 
A view of the spacious living-room in the Phillips house 
which opens on the roof-garden at the rear of the house. A 
dumbwaiter adjoining the chimney connects with the butler’s 
pantry to doors at the studio entrance and on the roof- 
garden. 
The reader will find by a close study of the accompanying 
plans and photographs that they have the merit of a per- 
sonal style, which makes this house distinctive, and which 
renders it thoroughly successful as an example of domestic 
architecture well suited to its site. He will see that it carries 
out the foregleam of an attractive interior arrangement, 
which its outer proportions impose upon the expectant critic. 
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The spacious two-storied living-room of this unusually interesting house is one of its most beautiful features and well worth study and emulation 
