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End of the studio, showing broad fireplace 
under the windows of the bedrooms, with mirrors set into 
the walls. The beds, instead of having a high head and 
footboard, have merely a rail of uniform height at the head, 
sides and foot, with square spindles enclosing them on all 
but one side. At the foot, a low seat drops hike a table- 
leaf when not in use. 
Of the gray screens used in the living-room to separate 
any one portion of the room from another, they are covered 
in heavy material without ornament. ‘The walls throughout 
the house are ceiled in wood and stained gray. The win- 
dows are curtained with a material not too heavy, nor yet 
entirely transparent, of an indescribable dull rose color, 
having one of those specially designed patterns in gray with 
touches of white, which only artists trust themselves to 
create, mere suggestions of pattern, with dull tones of color, 
as seen against the light. 
The timbered paneling of the outer wall surface lends a 
fine architectural note to the exterior of the building. The 
stain of dark gray is most satisfactory, giving the timbers 
the grayness of old-world houses. 
As seen from one of the distant mountain roads, the com- 
pact building, with its stuccoed walls and pink tiled roof, 
recalls the villas of Italy, set 
against the hillside among its 
pine trees. 
There is always a special 
glamour and a particular in- 
terest surrounding a_ studio 
or the workroom of an art- 
ist, and when the surround- 
ings may be planned regard- 
less of the restrictions which 
limit and hedge in the ar- 
rangement of most homes, 
and in a region as wild and 
as picturesque as that in 
which this country studio is 
set, the result is sure to be 
attractive. Miss Woodward 
has planned her home to 
meet the combined require- 
ments of a dwelling as well 
as of a workroom, and the 
plan shows a very skillful 
and successful working out 
and combining of rooms 
for both purposes. The ar- 
rangement provides spacious 
and exceedingly attractive 
living quarters—a great liv- 
ing-room so divided by its 
double fireplaces that it is a 
dining-room as well, and the 
service-rooms so_ planned 
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and grouped that they are cempact and complete within 
themselves and interfere in no way with the rest of the 
house. 
The upper floor is divided into bedrooms and planned 
with special reference to the comfort and convenience of 
guests, the narrow balconies which are tucked up under the 
wide overhang of the eaves serving a very practical purpose 
as open air sleeping rooms which are especially attractive 
to visitors in the Catskill country and in a place where the 
house is set within a forest of pine. 
But after all the chief reason for the existence of this 
beautiful home is that it may serve as a studio wherein an 
artist may work, and the great area and height given to 
this room and the skillful arrangement of its windows 
prove how well the studio is equipped to fulfill the purpose 
for which it was designed. Someone who has known many 
artists and visited studios in city and country in many parts 
of the world has said that for some reason the workshop 
is the part of the house which seems the most attractive 
and where the family and its friends love chiefly to congre- 
gate. One may imagine, therefore, that even with the very 
attractive living quarters of Miss Woodward’s home the 
favorite meeting place is 
about the big fireplace built 
of boulders which fills in one 
end of her studio and which 
is surrounded by windows 
that give upon a grounds 
close to a delightful pine 
forest; trees that are indeed 
her outdoor guests. 
It is easy to picture the 
charm of this great room 
during the late hours of a 
Winter afternoon, when the 
snow-covered ground, the 
sturdy boughs of the pines 
and perhaps the glow of a 
Winter sunset may be seen 
from the fireside where the 
warmth and light of blazing 
logs summon family and 
guests to the afternoon ren- 
dezvous in the studio. At 
this witching hour the beauty 
of out of doors is at its 
height and the cheer and 
comfort within are especial- 
ly inviting, so that a beauti- 
ful home which is also a 
studio, and placed amid the 
lavishness of  nature’s 
bounty, combines the charms 
of all to a wonderful degree, 
