HOUSE AND GARDEN 
December, 
i 9 i i 
37i 
The crest of the hill was extended out and upon this a terrace of fired 
brick, showing a fine color effect, was built 
At the foot of the lot there is a pond, beyond which the distant hills 
are seen framed in the lines of tall hollyhocks 
it proves uncommonly successful from the standpoint of beauty 
of color. 
In both exterior and interior woodwork is the same sincere use 
of material, selected not because it happens to be popular, but 
because it is suitable for a cot¬ 
tage ; unpretentious, but with 
marked beauty of grain and 
texture. Cypress clapboards 
treated with oil were used for 
the exterior walls. For in¬ 
terior woodwork hard pine 
was used throughout, stained 
a light brown that shows 
tawny and greenish tones. 
Paraffin oil is used for clean¬ 
ing, but this has been the only 
finish, no shellac or wax hav¬ 
ing been applied. In design, 
the woodwork has straight 
lines, flat surfaces that are 
easy to dust, and no mould¬ 
ings. No stock windows or 
doors were used, but all were 
built after special designs and 
their proportions and paneling add much to the effect of 
the interior. In our photograph of the dressing room the 
doors show the simple lines of the woodwork and its beauty 
of grain. The staircase has heavy newel posts reaching to 
the ceiling, suggesting modern English woodwork. The 
floors throughout the cottage are of comb-grained pine, 
stained a dark brown and finished with paraffin oil. 
The ceilings are of ordi¬ 
nary light construction lathed 
and plastered. There are no 
picture rails. The low ceiled 
walls, seven and a half feet 
high on the ground floor and 
seven feet on the second floor, 
are finished in a float coat, 
without the final smooth coat 
beloved of the plasterer, which 
often cracks and peels off 
within a few months’ time. 
No wall paper was used. In 
the living room and hall, the 
walls are left in the uncolored 
gray plaster, the color echoed 
in the monk’s cloth portieres 
and silk window curtains. In 
the dining room the walls are 
painted in oil-color in a deep 
Prussian blue. In one or two other rooms a pale water-color 
paint much diluted was put upon the walls. 
A distinctive feature is the furniture, built-in and movable. 
At the edge of the terrace, which is really an outdoor living-room, 
furnished with garden chairs, is the garden pool 
This buffet of quartered oak is only thirty inches high, but long am 
narrow, and contains a series of cupboards 
The simple chiffoniers, in harmony with the trim and designed to fill 
the wall space, have no ornament but tiny brass knobs 
