May, 1912 
by a row of low dormer windows which would in no way 
detract from the quaint effect of the broad, sweeping roof 
lines which are carried down to the eaves of the veranda. 
The rooms of the first floor are ten feet in height and the 
trim is of cypress stained a deep brown in living- and dining- 
rooms, simply oiled in the kitchen and painted white in 
bedrooms and bathrooms and the halls upon which these 
’ rooms open. The ceilings of the upper floor are sufhciently 
high for comfort and ventilation and are protected by 
‘quilting’ against extremes of either heat or 
cold. This material, which is now well 
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utilized as a library with many windows overlooking the 
valley. 
A home built in the woods even more than one built any- 
where else must be settled and fitted into its site, and this 
can hardly be done without the planting and the aid of grow- 
ing things, for which time is required. A study of the illus- 
trations will suggest the beauty of this little place where 
nature and time have co-operated to complete the quaint- 
ness of effect which has been so carefully begun and where 
much shrubbery has been massed about the 
known and widely used, is a sheeting of cer- 
tain fibres which is placed between the plaster 
of the ceiling and the shingles of the roof and 
is impenetrable by either cold or by heat. 
The locality in which this home has been 
made is one of those wild and rugged regions 
which abound in the hilly section of New Jer- 
sey not far from New York city. The house 
has been placed literally in the woods and. 
foundations and vines trained upon walls and 
the columns of the veranda. 
The level space before the house invites 
particular care in the laying out of a garden 
which might be planned with the simple 
Dutch formality suggested by the exterior of 
the house. The effect would be particularly 
interesting if the garden were enclosed by a 
clipped hedge with piers of stucco or brick to 
mark the entrance. The interest of a house 
built upon a plot which slopes so abruptly 
that space is given upon one side of the base- 
ment floor where several rooms might be placed, wholly 
above ground. This idea might be worked out and the 
space upon this lower floor made into a kitchen and a dining- 
room which might open upon a broad flagged terrace, par- 
ticularly inviting by reason of the extensive view over a 
heavily wooded valley to be had from this part of the 
house, and which is merely suggested by the two pictures 
here shown. By removing kitchen and dining-room to this 
lower floor wonderful effects would become possible and the 
space upon the main floor which they now occupy might be 
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Second floor plan 
A New Jersey house built literally in the woods, with a wonderful view over a Wooded valley 
depends to a large degree upon the care and 
skill with which the grounds and gardens 
are arranged and every opportunity is here offered for gar- 
den planning to enhance the beauty of an extremely inter- 
esting building. 
This little home would be as suitable almost anywhere as 
in the New York suburb in which it is built. It depends for 
beauty and distinctive effect wholly upon its correctness of 
line and the character of such adornment as the flower box 
just above the front window of the living-room and the 
paneled wooden shutters with their half-moon “‘ventilators,”’ 
after the manner of a century ago, and the old glass panes. 
