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The entrance porch 
sides, and into it lead French doors from the living-room, 
breakfast-room, kitchen and one of the bedrooms. On the 
front of the house are two small corner porches, and back 
of one of these is the usual screened porch. 
The woodwork of the bungalow consists of Oregon pine 
for the roof and framing, California redwood split shooks 
for the siding, and eucalyptus logs for the porch and the 
veranda pillars. The roof is comparatively flat, the pitch 
being but thirty degrees, and is constructed of broad ship- 
lapping boards running length-wise, with broadly project- 
ing eaves. The shooks which compose the siding are about 
twenty inches long, and laid so as to leave sixteen inches of 
their length exposed to the weather. They are spaced 
rather irregularly, and no particular care has been taken to 
get them to line at the lower edge. The eucalyptus logs 
used for the porch and the veranda pillars are of varying 
sizes, and are still in posses- 
sion of their smooth, leather- 
like bark. The rules for 
building a bungalow, partic- 
ularly for one designed for a 
ranch or a mountain home, 
require that the structure be 
of low, rambling appearance, 
and that the timbers be uni- 
formly rough. The builder 
of the one here described 
has conscientiously complied 
with such requirements, and 
as a result the bungalow is 
an excellent example of this 
style of architecture. 
The windows are mainly 
of the casement style, ar- 
ranged in groups of twos 
and threes. On the front of 
the house there is a massive 
brick chimney of excellent 
lines, with a double window 
on each side. French doors 
are used throughout. 
The floor plan arrange- 
ment places the large living- 
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room, which on special occa- 
sions is also used as a dining- 
room, in the center, while 
one of the wings is devoted 
to the kitchen, breakfast- 
room and pantry, and the 
other to the bedrooms and 
the bathroom. The living- 
room and the breakfast-room 
have hardwood floors, and 
the walls of each are pan- 
eled entirely to the ceiling, 
with a plate rail at a height 
of four feet and eight inches. 
The ceiling of the living- 
room follows the line of the 
rafters and consists of broad 
boards with the _ cracks 
batted. The room contains 
a large fireplace with a 
brick mantel, into the cor- 
ners of which are worked 
upright eucalyptus logs. All 
of the rooms are well lighted 
from the numerous windows 
and the French doors. 
The color scheme of the 
bungalow, both inside and 
out, is unusually attractive. The redwood shooks are simply 
oiled, which leaves them in possession of their natural color 
and the roof and the trim are stained a light olive green, 
while the eucalyptus pillars have been left without either oil 
or stain. The woodwork of the living-room and the break- 
fast-room, which is of Oregon pine, is stained with a spe- 
cially prepared chemical solution which has given the boards 
a copper-greenish cast. The woodwork of the kitchen and 
the bathroom, as well as of the bedrooms, is coated with 
white enamel. The walls of the bedrooms are plastered 
and tinted in delicate colors. 
The garden work around the bungalow is simple in char- 
acter, but well suited to such a home. Many sorts of fruit 
trees abound, and enough fruit is raised to supply the 
family. A feature of the garden work is the fences con- 
structed entirely of eucalyptus timbers. 
A broad veranda borders the court 
