HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, iqii 
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ing plans. The reception 
room is very small, with a 
low ceiling, and from this 
room an entrance to the 
living room is made inter¬ 
esting by descending five 
steps through a deep re¬ 
cess. You find yourself in 
a room eighteen feet high. 
This Jacobean room is 
very simple in design, ex¬ 
cept that it contains an or¬ 
namental gallery of the 
English baronial halls, 
which serves as a corridor 
to reach a portion of the 
second floor bedrooms. The 
ceiling falls slightly from 
the center to the side walls 
and is divided into large 
panels, with small moulded 
beams. The seven-foot 
wainscoting is framed in 
a way that avoids the ex¬ 
pense of panel construc¬ 
tion, showing a very ef¬ 
fective use of inexpensive 
materials. At one corner 
of the room is the great 
fireplace, seven feet across 
the opening, nearly six 
feet high and about four 
feet deep. The brick 
It is in the great living-room that one feels most strongly the individual appeal of Mr. Guilbert’s home. 
At the far end may be seen the gallery, which is patterned after the musicians’ galleries of English 
baronial halls 
A long row of casement windows, and the wide seat, occupy almost one whole side of the sunny dining¬ 
room. Beyond lies the tile-paved porch, which is reached also from the living-room 
hearth is four inches above 
the floor. It is interesting 
to note that this great cav¬ 
ern requires a flue more 
than two feet square, and 
on a cold winter night, 
with a half dozen four-foot 
logs, well burned to coals, 
gives a cheer not hard to 
imagine. 
The woodwork of the 
room is chestnut, stained 
a warm, dark brown, and 
waxed. The floor, of oak, 
is a little darker than the 
chestnut. On walls and 
ceiling the plastering, to 
imitate the old work, is very 
rough, being done with a 
small, round-edged trowel. 
It is painted in water color 
— a dark, warm gray wall, 
with a light gray ceiling, 
affecting ag'e rather than 
color. Needless to say, 
this makes a splendid back¬ 
ground for the tapestries. 
The chandeliers are of old 
silver. 
In the dining-room, the 
color scheme is in old, delft 
blue and yellow, with a red 
Welsh quarry tile floor. A 
