HOUSE AND GARDEN 
December, 1911 
T HE' modern built-in bath gives more floor 
space—utilizes an otherwise useless recess or 
corner — eliminates the hard-to-keep-clean 
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places under and back of the fixture—removes 
brass work from within the room. It is built 
right into the wall tiling and floor, becoming 
a part of the room itself. 
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and Enameled Iron built-in baths, we strongly 
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less. 
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The Making of a Distinctive House 
(Continued from page 372) 
roses seen against the background of mar¬ 
velous blues or misty greys of the distant 
hills. 
At the rear of the cottage, which is really 
the garden front, is a broad terrace, used 
as an outdoor living room, and furnished 
with garden chairs. Beyond are flower 
beds and a garden pool. The crest of the 
hill is built out fifteen feet to extend this 
part of the garden. The brick terrace and 
broad walk with pergola at the end are 
planned to give a vista of sunlit and 
shadowed spaces. Brick steps lead down 
several feet from the pergola to a lawn 
and tennis court sunken several feet be¬ 
low. On the other side of the garden, 
near enough to the cottage to insure pro¬ 
tection from marauding boys, is the orch¬ 
ard, further shielded by the hedge of 
shrubs and trees. The fruit trees, small 
as yet, included varieties of peaches, ap¬ 
ples and pears. Below the orchard is a 
sunken plot of grass bordered with small 
fruits. Since the street front has an as¬ 
pect of no particular interest, hot-beds, 
cold-frames and vegetable garden are 
given this location and at the front, near 
the kitchen entrance, is the kitchen court 
and drying ground. 
It is unusual for the home builder to 
design unaided a complete house and gar¬ 
den scheme. Clear cut ideals and the abil¬ 
ity to insist upon their fulfillment are often 
lacking. But problems of house con¬ 
struction and garden planning, as dis¬ 
cussed in modern magazines and books, 
are of increasing interest to house own¬ 
ers. This cottage, expressing its owner’s 
personality, and carrying out in every de¬ 
tail cherished ideas and principles, is by no 
means an unknown variety of the Ameri¬ 
can home. 
The Smokeless Fireplace and How 
We Achieved It 
(Continued from page 368) 
actually happened in my own house! 
Three days’ work fixed the chimney 
when we found out, after many months, 
what to do. All the brick that had been 
built in for hobs and the raised bed of the 
fireplace was first chipped out with a cold 
chisel and mallet. Then the entire front 
of the chimney the full width of the open¬ 
ing and almost up to the mantel, was cut 
away, little by little, in the same way. The 
mantel was a reinforced slab of concrete 
and the bricks were all laid in cement mor¬ 
tar that was as hard as stone, so we knew 
the chimney could stand the strain perfect¬ 
ly well. Cutting away the front exposed 
the tile flue of course, and this was cut off 
to make room for the throat, and the 
smoke chamber above. 
A groove was cut in the brick 23 inches 
from the floor on the inside of the jambs 
and across the back, to receive the project- 
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