December, 1907 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



457 



contains some very 

 good pieces of an- 

 tique furniture of 

 the Colonial period. 



The dining-room 

 has a white painted 

 trim and green 

 tinted walls. The 

 fireplace is built of 

 brick and the man- 

 tel is of Colonial 

 style. French win- 

 dows open onto the 

 piazza, one corner 

 of which is used in 

 warm weather for a 

 dining-room. 



The butler's pan- 

 try is fitted with 

 drawers, dressers 

 and butler's sink. 

 The kitchen and 

 laundry are trimmed 

 with yellow pine, 

 finished natural, 

 and each is fitted up 

 complete. 



There are five 

 bedrooms and two 

 bathrooms on the 

 second floor, the 

 latter being f u r - 

 nished with porce- 

 lain fixtures and ex- 

 posed nickelplated 

 plumbing. The trim 

 of the entire floor is 

 painted white, and 

 the walls are tinted 

 in one tone for each 

 room. 



The servants' 

 rooms and storage space is provicied on the third floor. A 

 cemented cellar under the entire house contains a furnace, 

 fuel room and storage space. Messrs. Lorci & Hewlett, of 

 New York City, were the architects of this pleasing house. 



A Small Porch Suffices for the Entrance 



This fact in itself 

 at once discloses a 

 special interest in 

 this house, for the 

 dwelling built by an 

 architect for h i s 

 personal use invari- 

 ably has a special 

 attractiveness to the 

 observer of houses. 

 And why not? That 

 houses are imper- 

 fect and seldom 

 what they ought to 

 be is a circumstance 

 known to all women 

 and even to a few 

 men. It is needless 

 to inquire into the 

 reason for this; it 

 simply remains as a 

 fact patent, prac- 

 tically, to every one. 



But when the ar- 

 chitect starts in to 

 build his own house 

 the very minimum 

 of error and incon- 

 venience is to be 

 looked for. If ever 

 a person who builds 

 a house knows 

 houses it is the ar- 

 chitect, and it is 

 quite natural to con- 

 clude that there will 

 be little to criticize 

 in the house he has 

 built for himself. 



This is very ob- 

 viously true of the 

 charming house 



Mr. Lord has built for his own use at Water Witch. The 

 employment of simplicity as the keynote of the design is 

 masterly, for nothing could be simpler, nothing more re- 

 strained, nothing quieter. And the result is satisfying. 



How to Arrange Window Curtains 



By Ada Walker Camehl 



IWINDOW should be treated with careful 

 thought and consideration. When you have 

 arranged a shade so as to regulate the light 

 and to insure privacy, and have draped a 

 pair of white curtains over a pole in a more 

 or less graceful fashion, do not content your- 

 self with the idea that all decorative possi- 

 bilities of window furnishing have been exhausted. Win- 

 dows present one of the most diflUcult problems to the home- 

 builder — as well as one of the most interesting; for the power 

 of window treatment for adding to or detracting from the 

 charm of a room is manifold. 



In the first place the furnisher must decide which of two 

 plans she wishes to follow: whether to treat the window as a 

 wall decoration, so arranged as to shut out prying eyes or a 

 disagreeable outlook, and still furnish light for the room; 



or whether to bring into the room a beautiful landscape or 

 tree or bit of lawn, and to let the window serve as a frame 

 for the outdoor picture. 



The first plan admits of two treatments : first, that in which 

 the problem is to secure privacy in a room which looks di- 

 rectly upon the walls or windows of a nearby house; second, 

 that in which the outlook is from a high apartment upon 

 ugly chimneys and roofs. If your window opens upon a 

 bare, uninteresting wall, hang dainty net of muslin curtains 

 next to the panes so that they fall in graceful fulness. These 

 may be edged with lace or a ruflle, but simple, plain net is 

 always in good taste. To my mind nothing is prettier for 

 inside curtains than ruffled point d'esprit. Hang these upon 

 a small brass rod or upon picture wire, if economy is to be 

 considered, and leave a narrow heading of the curtains above 

 the rod. These curtains may hang straight, or they may be 



