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Here one sees pictured an interesting chalet type of Summer cottage, del 
mitted the slabs coming clear 
to the ground and covering 
the unsightly spaces below the 
sills, so often seen under cot- 
tages supported by piers or 
posts. More for effect under 
the gable than for utility, the 
roof rafters were covered with 
three-inch strapping, to which 
the shingles were nailed. 
Inside, the plan is simplicity 
itself. It comprises a small 
low-beamed living- and din- 
ing-room and inglenook com- 
bined, a bedroom and a 
kitchen. The living-room is 
one step below these other 
rooms, and has a shelf at the 
height of a platerail appear- 
ing and disappearing be- 
tween the heavy posts and 
wall openings. The windows 
here are small-pane case- 
ments and swing outward. A 
tiny flight of stairs leaves the 
inglenook for the chamber 
overhead. Opposite it is a 
built-in couch with _ book- 
shelves handy, and between, 
the firebreast boasts a large 
metal hood, across which is 
beaten in, with a nail-set, the 
legend, Sic Habitat Felicitas. 
The face of the fireplace has the butts of clinker brick show- 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
Hood over Pores 
4, 
INGLE NOOK 
Brick hearth 
CONCRETE FoRcH 
6-0" x 17-0" 
First-floor plan of a chalet on the Maine coast 
ightfully situated on the edge of the picturesque shore of the Maine coast 
March, 1912 
ef. 
leaden surfaces of these 
bricks contrast pleasantly 
with their red neighbors. 
The ample hearth is of brick, 
laid in herring-bone pattern, 
worthy of the nook. 
Above, the large chamber 
gives through a glass door to 
the sleeping-porch, tucked up 
under the gable. Here the 
weary city worker sleeps the 
clock around and absorbs the 
heavy balsam odors against 
another year of toil among 
the cliff dwellers. Here he 
looks over the tumble of 
ledges with its natural bath- 
tub, looks out across the At- 
lantic Ocean, with nothing be- 
tween him and Spain but the 
heaving deep. The outlook is 
hardly that of a Swiss chalet, 
hardly suggestive, perhaps, 
of anything approaching Al- 
pine scenery by reason of the 
sea taking the place of moun- 
tains, but the cottage itself 
seems remarkably at home in 
its surroundings. And from 
the water this abode, with its 
- Mullein-green roof, its brown 
and gray walls, and a figure 
lazily stretched out on the 
high-backed settle of the porch, appear to be saying, 
ing hit-and-miss across the different courses. The glazed “It is well worth six hundred dollars.” And it truly is! 
