24 SUBURBAN GARDENS 
to impair their beginnings if it is possible. 
Avoid an arrangement which will bring kitchen 
doors under living room windows — here the 
blind side walls again prove their advantage 
by making such a catastrophe impossible — and 
take care that trees or shrubs or arbors do not 
cut off what is obviously a cherished view, even 
if this embraces nothing more worthy than the 
distant corner of a busier street. If that sort 
of thing is what these neighbors like, that is 
the thing they enjoy looking at; do not deprive 
them of it if it is possible to do the best by 
your own place without doing so. 
But on the other hand, never let a neigh- 
bor’s misconceptions and bad taste be an 
obstacle to doing the very best that it is pos- 
sible to do with the home that you are build- 
ing. Put your house where it ought to go, 
making it the form and size and style that you 
require; screen what may need screening; 
fence, wall, or hedge the entire property — in- 
variably — and never plan any part or feature 
so that it is in any way dependent upon the 
property adjacent. This is not to say that two 
places may not be delightfully developed 
through mutual concessions and by means of a 
unified plan that embraces both; but even in 
doing this, they should be kept distinct. For, 
