308 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDEWS 
The Water Front Has Two Porches with a Recessed Central Portico 
The living-room is on the right of the hall, and occupies 
the whole of one of the wings overlooking the water front. 
The wood is cypress, stained a dark brown, with wall cov- 
ered with red grass cloth. The ceiling has exposed beams 
of pine stained dark. The chimney nook, which is unusually 
large, is lined with rough red brick, with a row of dull green 
Grueby tiles decorated with cream colored ships and sea 
gulls. Over the fireplace is a great copper hood, very beau- 
tiful in color. The hearth is of red tiles. The furniture is 
almost entirely of the arts and crafts type. Adjoining this 
room, toward the entrance front, is a small writing-room, 
whose walls are covered from floor to ceiling with large 
panels, painted white. The furniture is mahogany. 
The dining-room, on the opposite side of the hall, is fin- 
ished in California redwood, many of the planks being of 
unusual size and beauty. The walls are paneled to the height 
of seven feet with this wood, the planks being set upright and 
tied with Spanish keys. Above is a simple shelf supported on 
heavy plain brackets. The doors, which were especially de- 
signed for this room, consist of a single plank with long strap 
hinges of dull copper. The chimney nook is lined with rough 
red bricks with a row of variously colored Mercer tiles at 
the top and at the level of the base of this copper hood. ‘The 
ceiling has exposed beams. 
The largest room in the house, and in many respects the 
most attractive one, is the lounging-room on the third floor, 
known as the “‘attic room.”’ It occupies the whole of one 
end of the house, and is twenty by fifty-five feet in dimensions. 
It is open to the ridge of the gambrel roof. Across both 
ends are galleries, and on one side are recessed alcoves for 
beds, while a large locker-room and bathroom are reached 
from the gallery. These bedrooms are intended for use only 
when the rest of the house is fully occupied. The Bohemian 
character of this room is suggested by the card patterns which 
are used as a leading motif of the decorations, in the panels 
over the mantels, and in the balustrades around the gallery. 
The woodwork is rough sawed spruce, stained a rich brown, 
with birch bark between the beams and the ceiling under the 
gallery. ‘The rough plastered walls are painted a dull, gray- 
ish green. There are many bear rugs on the hardwood floor. 
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