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is used as a living - room, a little ingenuity- 
will suffice to make some of the windows 
of this hall command the front prospect. 
Again, unless the grounds are very large, so 
that there are lawns at side or back as well 
as in front, the front is the best place for 
loggias or piazzas ; and these are best fitted 
for their purpose when disconnected from 
the entrance and thus protected from the 
immediate intrusion of visitors, while, by 
carefully planting near the street-line and 
the piazza, and carefully designing the piaz- 
za itself, it will usually be possible to secure 
a due degree of privacy as regards passers in 
the street. We can all remember piazzas, 
never used in the day-time, which might be 
perpetually used had the gardener taken a 
little trouble to screen them. And we have 
all seen fluttering figures hastily leaving a 
piazza, to hide themselves indoors, when an 
undesired visitor was espied in the distance. 
Better planning would vastly increase the 
comfort as well as the beauty of our suburban 
homes ; but it is the sort of planning which 
demands the landscape-gardener’s even more 
than the architect’s assistance. 
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