House and Garden 
THE DINING-ROOM 
wash trays. A flue for the laundry stove is 
carried up in the fireplace chimney. The cellar 
extends under the whole house and has a cement 
floor. 
The whole of the exterior is shingled with the best 
red cedar shingles, dipped in shingle stain of a soft 
rich, brown bark color, with trimmings painted a 
rich cream color, giving a very pleasing eff ect, nestled 
in among the trees as it is. 
The interior trim is of brown ash in the reception 
hall stained a rich golden oak color, and the balance 
of the first floor was finished in hard pine, stained 
different tones of brown, dull finish, the darkest in 
the living-room and toning down to lighter brown in 
the den. These stains can be procured from repu¬ 
table dealers, and, while inexpensive, give very 
pleasing effects to the rooms, bringing out the beauti¬ 
ful open grain of the pine as it does. The second 
floor is finished in cypress, finished partly natural and 
partly stained, excepting the family chamber and 
bath-rooms which are finished white enamel with the 
room side of the doors, which are birch, stained 
and finished a rich mahogany, as used in old 
Colonial work. 
The attic rooms are finished in pine. 1 he floor¬ 
ing throughout was of rift sawed best Georgia pine, 
stained and waxed. 
The plumbing is of the best throughout, being all 
brass nickel plated and open work. A wash-bowl 
was placed in the passage between reception hall and 
kitchen, and is not shown in these sketches. 
The linen closet is so arranged that the top drawer, 
which is about three feet from the floor, opens into 
the bath-room as well as into the hall and is for towels 
for the bath, thus saving the space required for a 
closet for this room for towels. 
The heating is by a hot air furnace with registers 
of the stamped steel pattern, in each room, finished 
to match the hardware and lighting fixtures. 
Electric lights with fixtures of tasteful design 
are used throughout, but the house is also piped for 
gas. 
This house was completed the first of August, 
1906, and cost $4,500 including the building, electric 
wiring, heating, plumbing and gas piping, papering, 
painting and decorating, grading, hardware and 
lighting fixtures, in fact everything complete, ready 
for occupancy. 
