HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 1911 
There is a wonderfully attractive atmosphere about the large living-room, with its dark-stained ceiling beams, rough-plastered walls, dark 
cypress woodwork, and the great inglenook, with its raised floor of rough brick. It is interesting to compare this room with the stuffy 
little front parlor of the modern development house, built fifty at a time at a cost no less than th's 
for them. Besides those under 
the casement windows, there are 
shelves built against the partition 
between the living-room and the 
music-room; more shelves built 
under the three windows at the 
fireplace end of the room, and still 
others against the wall on each side 
of the chimney, above the backs of 
the settles. The shelves are home¬ 
made, constructed of odds and ends 
of lumber, and cost next to nothing. 
The opening between living-room 
and dining-room is directly oppo¬ 
site the front door. An attractive 
feature of the division between the 
two rooms is the high back of the 
settle, the space above which is 
filled by square spindles set close 
together. The dining-room is com¬ 
fortably large, for which I make 
my compliments once more to the 
architect. There was much more 
unbroken wall space here than in 
the living-room, and for a while we 
considered adopting some such 
treatment as a wainscot effect. 
However, when the furniture was 
