Piazzas 



in others again there will be a much wider 

 latitude for choice. The only rule is to con- 

 sider all claims together from the very be- 

 ginning, and to know clearly which ones, by 

 reason of the habits and tastes of the owners, 

 ought to be most fully met if compromise 

 of any conspicuous kind is necessary. 



The claims of certain other external feat- 

 ures likewise tell us not to exaggerate our 

 piazzas, and to make them commodious by 

 building them broad rather than long. In 

 a house of the old piazza - encircled type, 

 it was difficult, for instance, to emphasize 

 the chief entrance which, if a house is to 

 have the right home-like air, should always 

 be hospitably prominent ; upper balconies, 

 which are often so useful as well as pretty, 

 could not be well placed above the long 

 piazza roofs ; terraces were hard to treat, 

 and that delightful feature, the Italian log- 

 gia, was impossible, at least on the ground- 

 floor. 



Of late we have begun to employ these 

 other external features with the happiest re- 

 sults in the way of comfort no less than in 

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