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the floor of the entrance 
hallway. The illustrations 
on page 398 clearly indicate 
the relation of the hall to 
the living-room, the former 
taking on a gallery-like ap- 
pearance when viewed from 
the floor of the former. The 
ceiling of the living-room is 
squarely beamed, and like 
the rest of the woodwork of 
this level is of brown oak 
whose grain has been beau- 
tifully brought ‘out by a 
careful wax and sand finish. 
Wihitles there is a certain 
massiveness in the materials 
of woodwork construction 
there is nowhere in this 
room or anywhere in the 
house a sense of op- 
pressive heaviness 
therefrom; quite 
the contrary. Every- 
where the feeling 
of the house is one 
of intimate comfort 
without one forbid- 
ding architectural 
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Interior view looking down 
note intruding itself. 
DINING FOGM 
The living-room 
walls above the 
paneling are rough 
plaster tinted a rich 
The living-room of 
‘Upwey’ ’ 
door to the right of the fireplace 
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The first floor plan and the second floor plan of “‘Upwey’’ here shown were somewhat 
modified in the completed house by the addition of the ombra leading from the living-room 
November, 1912 
yellow, which harmonizes 
with the colored bricks of 
the great fireplace and chim- 
ney. This fireplace is one 
of the five in this house. It 
has a projecting hood, re- 
minding one of the fireplaces 
in the old manor-houses of 
England, and the opening is 
five feet across. Moreover 
it does not smoke, an added 
blessing to an added com- 
fort! The chimney that 
draws is an enviable thing, 
in this day of crowding flues 
together and it means much 
to chronicle the fact that the 
chimneys of “Upwey” draw, 
and that every fireplace in 
the house shares the distinc- 
tion of the one in 
the living-room. It 
is interesting to 
study their arrange- 
ment upon the plan. 
From the living- 
room one may step 
out by a door at the 
right of the fireplace 
upon a large out- 
door room—the 
ombra, the Italians 
would call it. This 
spacious shaded 
showing the dining-room which is on the level eight steps above it 
