House & Garden 
Before the entrance is 
a forecourt; off the 
garage a flower gar¬ 
den, and a vegetable 
garden off the service 
yard. Extensive views 
over the adjoining 
golf course would be 
had from any point 
on the terrace 
Upstairs would be 
only three bedrooms, 
each large and well 
aired, opening onto 
iron balconies. A 
dressing and bath¬ 
room is provided for 
each, with a little 
sewing room looking 
over the forecourt 
might be high, but the 
upkeep would be nil. 
The long way of the 
house, and the princi¬ 
pal rooms would face 
this open prospect. Be¬ 
tween the house and 
the low hedge separat¬ 
ing the acre and the 
park would be a long 
oval view terrace, with 
places to sit entirely se¬ 
cluded from the drive¬ 
way and public road. 
Complete privacy 
from adjoining houses 
would be ensured by 
thick bosquets of ever¬ 
green trees along the 
entire two sides of the 
property. The house 
would be secure from 
the dust and noise of 
the public road by be¬ 
ing set more than half 
way back in the lot. The spaces at 
the sides of the simple forecourt would 
be used for a garage court and small 
flower garden on one side, and a dry¬ 
ing green and vegetable garden on the 
other side. A large flower garden 
would be unwise with its constant up¬ 
keep in summer and bare, unsightly 
beds at other seasons. Such small fin¬ 
ished grounds for the all-year country 
home would be no burden but only a 
pleasure. 
Elegance in a Little House 
The type of house would be com¬ 
pact, readily heated, and easily run 
with only three servants. Yet there 
would be style and variety by having 
the rooms either spaciously large or 
cosily small, and avoiding the usual 
monotony of many medium - sized 
rooms. Elegance would be ensured by 
high ceilings, unusually large French 
windows, selected materials and finest 
finish inside and out. 
The unwieldy burden of the old 
mansion was largely caused by the 
quantity of rarely used rooms, unat¬ 
tractive because unlived in, and main¬ 
tained only by a large corps of poly¬ 
glot servants constantly at variance. 
By eliminating these unused rooms, 
we would throw off half our domes¬ 
tic troubles, dismiss the housekeeper 
Eliminating unused rooms, th 
little staircase, a large living 
the other. The 
e first floor would consist of a smart entrance hall, a graceful 
room with a small study on one side and a dining room on 
wings would house garage and service quarters 
and breathe more freely. 
There would, of 
course, be no reception 
room for polite old- 
fashioned calls; no 
drawing room for the 
formal entertaining of 
astonished acquaint¬ 
ances; no smoking 
room, as the ladies 
must smoke every¬ 
where; no billiard 
room, as the country 
club affords better fa¬ 
cilities for all such 
games. The dining 
room would be small 
and cosy enough to 
serve as breakfast room 
also. The large costly 
conservatory with its 
tiresome ferns and 
palms would be re¬ 
placed by the flower 
bay in the dining room, 
small and easily cared for, with a 
few bright and unusual flowers. And 
finally, we would be free of those 
empty guest rooms, and the conse¬ 
quent obligation for large house 
parties and clumsy menage. 
Privacy Indoors 
Privacy would be the keynote of 
the interior. Everything would be 
devised for freedom of family life 
rather than for superfluous enter¬ 
taining. There would be no grand- 
opera staircase. From the front 
door only a smart entrance hall 
would be seen, no more. The grace¬ 
ful little staircase would be in a 
separate stair hall leading discreetly 
from the study up to the bedrooms. 
There would be no extensive vistas 
from one end of the house to the 
other, no throwing rooms together by 
broad portiered openings, not even 
glass doors to look through. The 
doors would be few, small and solid, 
often disguised in the paneling for 
the sake of greater seclusion. 
Sense of space would be given by 
one really large room—the living 
room. Here would be area for even 
the largest of the good tapestries, 
portraits, furniture and rugs from 
Villa Victoria—but no place for even 
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