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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



September, 1908 



The Loggia Has Gray Plaster Walls and Floor of Red Tiles 



everywhere there is foliage and flowers; vines upstarting 

 against the blue trellises — for a bluer note is used here than 



on the blinds — to color them in time, 

 with added beauty to the walls; bay trees 

 and other handsome foliage plants are 

 real notes of nature's own green, helpful, 

 restful and essential in the general color- 

 ing. Nor should the gaily blooming 

 window boxes in the second story be ig- 

 nored; and, indeed, how could they, with 

 their green leaves and bright flowers 

 against the cool background of the house ? 

 I need not stop to analyze each wall 

 of the house as seen from the court; but 

 one or two general characteristics may 

 be mentioned, and some reference made 

 to the south wall, which connects the two 

 wings. Everywhere there is ample wall, 

 wall unadorned and structural only. 

 The windows are comparatively small, 

 as small as windows in this latitude may 

 be without keeping out the abundant sun- 

 light needed in northern homes. In both 

 these matters Mr. Shaw has undoubtedly 

 followed Italian precedence, but it is the 

 spirit he has borrowed, not the forms 

 which we usually associate with Italian 

 building. In the center of the south wall 

 are three flat-topped window-doors; each 

 beneath a horizontal lattice supported on 

 brick piers, capped with stone; a tubbed 

 bay tree on each side completes the floral 

 and color schemes. The connecting wall 

 is trellised, with frames rising to a fes- 

 tooned circle, in which is a deer skull. There is a broad 

 stretch of plain wall above this decorated base; then a flat 



Painted Panels, White Walls and Walnut Trim Are the Material Features of the Dining-room 



