HOUSE AND GARDEN 
December, iqii 
Nearly all the 
pieces were built 
by hand after the 
owner's designs, 
to occupy a wall 
or to till a floor 
space and, inci¬ 
dentally, to em¬ 
phasize the quaint 
and livable qual¬ 
ity of the cottage. 
This method of 
furnishing, not 
expensive in the 
case of built-in 
pieces such as 
bookcases or 
seats that do away 
with heavy mov¬ 
ables, insures a 
certain harmony 
between an in¬ 
terior and its fit¬ 
tings, to be gain¬ 
ed in no other 
way. Also pieces 
can be built to 
suit and fit their 
owners, obviating 
frantic search 
through shops for an unobtain¬ 
able ideal. 
Among the built-in pieces are 
the broad settles on each side 
of the living room fireplace. 
Their high backs, of broad 
planks, form a wainscot for the 
greater part of the room. A 
built-in desk of very simple 
make, and simple book shelves, 
are other living room features. 
In the nursery and sleeping- 
rooms are broad cushioned 
window seats with box space 
beneath. The dining room buf¬ 
fet and serving table are of 
unique design. The accepted 
conventions are definitely 
abandoned, and the buffet in¬ 
stead of being thirty-six inches 
high, with high back and plate 
rail, is thirty inches high, with 
no plate rail or back, a long nar¬ 
row piece with heavy posts and 
containing a series of cup¬ 
boards. On the top is a de¬ 
lightful row of brass and cop¬ 
per utensils collected in Italy. 
The serving table, not so long 
as the buffet, is of the same 
height and contains drawers for 
table silver as well as linen cup¬ 
boards. Quartered oak is used 
in their construction. The 
round table and leather bot¬ 
tomed chairs are also of oak, 
stained a slightly darker tone 
than the wood¬ 
work. In the 
dressing room il¬ 
lustration are 
shown two chif¬ 
foniers designed 
to fill a wall 
space. They are 
of a pattern as 
simple as possible 
with no vagaries 
of line, and tiny 
brass knobs are 
their only orna¬ 
ment. An arm- 
chair, a desk, 
dressing table and 
other chairs in 
this room are also 
built specially for 
their places, as 
are some of the 
bedsteads a n d 
other furniture in 
the sleeping 
rooms. 
The cottage is 
protected fro m 
the road by a 
hedge formed of 
small trees and shrubs planted 
in a wide border. There are 
wild plum trees, their purple 
colored foliage contrasting 
with the green around them ; 
Lombardy poplars, sumac, 
which will be cut out later, as 
its semi-tropical appearance is 
not liked, but which gives 
quick results in the way of 
shade; syringa and wild cur¬ 
rant, and a row of little arbor 
vitae trees outlining the inner 
edge of the border. In the 
three years that cottage and 
garden have been in existence, 
the growth of this hedge has 
made it a thick, high barrier. 
It bas an informal look, and 
violates none of the prejudices 
of the passer-by who resents 
high walls or unbroken 
hedges. There is no gate, but 
a narrow brick pathway leads 
to the sidewalk without. 
At one side of the cottage is 
the rose garden, a formal ar¬ 
rangement of beds, with a 
sun-dial in the center. Tree 
roses form a circle around the 
dial. The grafts are tea-roses 
on ordinary stock. Climbing 
roses fill the centers of the 
beds. The location is a per¬ 
fect one for a rose garden, 
the delicate tints of the tea- 
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Another view of the terrace front of the cottage, with the brick steps, 
which lead from the pergola to a lawn and tennis court several 
feet below. These steps are another example of the artistic value 
of bricks irregularly laid and of different color 
I he rear of the cottage is really the garden front. At the left is a formal arrangement of rose 
beds, with a sun-dial in the center; beyond, at the right, is the orchard 
