274 AMERICAN 
HOMES AND GARDENS July, 1911 
Field stone and shingles are the materials used for the exterior walls 
A Bungalow Designed by the Owner 
By Lillian Harrod 
Photographs by the author 
| CCUPYING a sightly location, not far from 
@, the little railroad station in the town of 
Sharon, in Massachusetts, is the interest- 
ing bungalow owned and designed by Miss 
Ethel Bushnell Hall. It stands in a clear- 
ing of woodland stretches, surrounded by 
broad sweeps of grassland, intersected 
with graveled paths, and it overlooks at the rear a vast 
area of fertile fields and valleys outlined in the distance 
by the Berkshire 
hills. 
It is erected on a 
finished like the exterior in untinted shingles, with ceiling 
and floor of hardwood, stained and polished. It is en- 
sconced in a sort of ell, commanding views on three sides, 
and it is fitted with great broad windows, glass enclosed 
during the winter months, but simply shielded by heavy 
screens in the summer season. Hangings in tones of green 
outline the window spaces, and coverings in the same tints 
adorn the corner seats. 
From one end a broad door, flanked on either side by 
— narrow casement win- 
| | 4 dows, opens into the 
eg | living-room, a spac- 
foundation of rough 
fieldstone, sufficiently 
deep to permit of the 
arranging of a good- 
sized cellar, entered 
from the outside by 
means of a bulkhead, 
and the severe sim- 
plicity of its long, 
low lines is pleasant- 
ly broken by large 
bow windows en- 
sconced on either side 
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of the great fieldstone 
chimney. Rails of 
fieldstone flank the 
front entrance steps, 
and posts of the same material support the pergola built 
out from above the side entrance door. The exterior finish 
is of shingles, left unstained, the wood tints gradually, 
deepening to a soft weathered gray, and the trim is painted 
dark brown. The sloping roof, with its deep overhang, 
is finished to correspond, and the monotony of its straight 
lines is agreeably intercepted by groups of dormer windows 
inserted at either end. 
The entrance door gives directly upon the sun-room, 
First floor plan 
——= =] ious apartment, fin- 
ished in hard wood 
stained to _ imitate 
cypress, with rough 
plastered ceiling, and 
walls hung with red 
Japanese grass cloth. 
A large art square in 
tones of red _ partly 
covers the polished 
floor, and _ smaller 
rugs of harmonizing 
colors are laid before 
the doorway spaces. 
A great open fire- 
place built of rough 
fieldstone is arranged 
at one end, and to the left, beneath the large bow window, 
extends a cosy seat outlined with dark red portieres and 
cushioned in plush of the same shade. On the opposite 
side, below the long, low casement windows, extends an- 
other seat, cushioned to correspond, and topped with a 
narrow shelf for the display of pictures and knick-knacks. 
It is finished in imitation of an old-time settle, and extends 
part way around the farther end of the apartment close to 
the open space, from the left of which ascends a quaint 
LLDLOO/L 
JOKIS 
