Old Chelsea green walls 
paneled with the Mth Cen¬ 
tury manner form the 
background for this simple 
dining room 
Woodwork in the drawing 
room is painted white, the 
furniture is mahogany and 
the casements are left un¬ 
curtained 
amicable collaboration between 
an intelligent client and an 
architect both understanding 
and appreciative has fully stood 
the test of time and proved a 
source of lasting satisfaction. 
Unusual Koof Lines 
Of the exterior features, the 
roof makes one of the first 
claims to attention. The tiles 
were chosen and laid at ran¬ 
dom, so far as color was con¬ 
cerned, to ensure all the agree¬ 
able chance diversities of hue 
of which they are capable. The valleys, 
instead of being guttered in an angle 
and flashed, are rounded out with tiles 
—a treatment that contributes appreciably 
to mellowness of lines, as does also the little 
flaring kick-up at the eaves. On the south ¬ 
west or garden front the repose of the roof 
is unbroken by dormer projections. On the 
northeast or entrance front the unusual 
method of dormer management, directly 
above the house door, has both interior 
necessity and exterior interest sufficient to 
atone for the interruption of line. The lat¬ 
ticed enclosure of the down pipe deserves 
notice as an expedient both practical and 
decorative for concealing a necessary feature 
that is not ordinarily an item of charm. 
The level of the entrance front is some¬ 
what higher than the terrace level of the 
garden front, but the house has been kept 
sitting flat upon and, so to speak, growing 
out of the ground all the way round by in¬ 
geniously varying the floor levels within. 
In the living room walls are plaster 
and exposed tincture, the floor tiles 
and furniture deal and old oak 
An agreeable texture has been imparted 
to the white-coated roughcast of the exterior 
wall by a kind of “stick and pull” method 
of manipulating the floats when the stucco 
mixture was of the proper consistency to let 
the force of suction play its part in produc¬ 
ing the surface finish. This method of plas¬ 
tering gives the walls a legitimate and living 
character derived from the play of light and 
shadow and it measurably enhances the 
quality of reflected color always inherent, 
but too often unobserved, in all white walls. 
This same “stick and pull” manipulation 
can readily be practiced in finishing any 
stucco-coated wall if attention is paid to the 
consistency of the plaster. 
The device of sliding slatted shutters for 
the bed chamber windows in the north-west 
gable of the garden front is both eminently 
practical and interesting enough to suggest 
emulation. 
The Hall and Drawing Room 
Within doors the central portion of the 
ground floor is occupied by a spacious hall 
or living-room which gives directly upon the 
porch, formed by the overhang of the first 
story, and upon the paved terrace beyond, 
where the wide joints between 
the stones are planted with flat¬ 
growing aromatic herbs. The 
walls of the hall display on one 
side the horizontal and trans¬ 
verse timbers fastened together 
with wooden pins. The floor 
is paved with large red quarry 
tiles and simple oak and ash 
cottage furniture with equally 
simple printed cotton curtains 
maintain the unpretentious 
character of the room. All the 
woodwork is of deal, rubbed 
down with a little oil and 
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