December, 1912 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
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walls inside, a result that is absolutely 
measures thirteen feet by twenty-two 
unavoidable with a single roof. So the 
roof of the bungalow was first complete- 
ly boarded, then cleated with strips run- 
ning from ridge to jet. Then on this 
again was laid another roof, which was 
shingled. Thus the heat penetrating 
the lower roof passes off through the air 
space which causes a circulation over the 
entire roof. This keeps it from melting 
the snow on the roof proper or from 
freezing at the jet, with the exception 
of a thaw or a sudden change of tem- 
perature, in which case it will build up 
on the jet of the roof and simply run 
through on the lower roof and then out 
between the roofs, thus doing no dam- 
age. The spandrels formed by the roof 
are ornamented with the mounted heads 
of four fine specimens of reindeer; and above the two en- 
trances are mounted horns of Texas steers. The doors, 
with trappings of hammered copper, have been left in their 
natural color to weather finish. 
A wide porch runs across the front of the bungalow, 
then leads into a large open-air lounging-room, windowed 
and screened, and this can be entirely enclosed when de- 
sired. This room, which borders the side of the dwelling, 
BED FOUM 
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Floor plan of the bungalow at 
The dining-room end of the bungalow at ‘‘Muckross”’ 
feet. Here interesting furnishings are 
introduced. ‘The low, deep easy chairs 
of a dull-green tone are brightened with 
red silk cushions. In the several novel 
receptacles of the table which stands to 
the side center is an interesting “‘bach- 
elor” collection of pipes of all descrip- 
tions. At either end of the room are 
large red-cushioned porch-swings which 
can also be used as beds. ‘hen, jutting 
from the center of the thatched house- 
wall, is an exceptionally well designed 
fireplace built of native stone, laid dry 
and bearing as a decoration aloft a rein- 
deer head trophy. And smuggled here 
and there in the crevices of the stones 
ee ~ peep several interesting and rather un- 
Muckross’” sual specimens of the little creatures 
of the woods; a quaint method of naturalizing an interior. 
The entire front of the floor space of the bungalow of 
“Muckross” is absorbed in a spacious apartment which 
measures fifteen feet by twenty-six feet; one half of this 
space being a living-room, the other half the dining-room, 
but so constructed that it can be divided when necessary by 
attachable screens. The woodwork is a soft, dark brown 
North Carolina pine, the walls having a seven-foot paneling 
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