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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1912 
the library. This arrangement 
secured additional light, and 
at the same time permitted a 
broad glimpse of the pictur¬ 
esque rear view. 
In the dining-room, several 
changes were made, and the 
result was a complete change 
in shape and size. Oblique 
walls replaced the two rear 
corners, one containing the 
doorway leading to the library, 
and the other affording en¬ 
trance and furnishing some 
space for the china closet 
which was inserted between 
the dining-room . and the 
kitchen. The single window 
on the southeast was replaced 
by a semi-octagonal bow re¬ 
cess, fitted with small lights of 
glass, affording space for the 
grouping of numerous pretty 
plants, and incidentally adding a touch of distinctive beauty. 
The kitchen received its share of consideration in the process 
of making over, resulting in the substitution of a pleasant, con¬ 
venient apartment in place of the rather conspicuous, ill-lighted 
original room. A built-in refrigerator was added at the right of 
the vestibule, and about the side walls of the room proper, built-in 
cupboards were grouped. 
Two other impor¬ 
tant changes in the 
body of the houses 
are worthy of con¬ 
sideration. One was 
the enlargement of 
the cellar, made nec¬ 
essary by the greater 
space demanded by 
modern heating ap¬ 
paratus, and t h,e 
other was the substi¬ 
tution of the orig- 
i n a 1 small-paned 
type of windows for 
the two-paned type which in 
the course of time had been 
provided to take the place of 
the old-time worn-out ones. 
The decoration of the re¬ 
vised interior completed, the 
transformation from the com¬ 
monplace original to the pres¬ 
ent charming abode took place. 
A pretty tapestry paper, of 
landscape design, in varied 
tones of green, combines with 
white paint to convert the 
hallway into a simple, digni¬ 
fied entrance, and the con¬ 
trasting tints of the same col¬ 
oring in the paper, secures the 
effect of more space than is 
really the case. In the living- 
room, a dull red paper above 
a white dado provides a fitting 
background for the display of 
fine old mahogany with which 
the apartment is equipped, 
while the dining-room is pro¬ 
vided with tapestry hangings 
of dark greens, browns and 
yellows, with a design of pine 
cones and needles, which con¬ 
trast charmingly with the 
white dado. A slight reduc¬ 
tion in the height of window 
casings in dining-room and 
living-room afforded an op¬ 
portunity to carry the wall 
paper and mouldings over 
across the windows, avoiding 
the cramped effect of the too 
high original window arrange¬ 
ment. 
In the library, which is a 
fair-sized room, with built-in 
window seat occupying the 
space across the two windows, 
and the remaining walls oc¬ 
cupied principally by bookcases, the trim is stained dark brown, 
the bookcases corresponding in finish, while the hangings are tan 
in shade. This room with its cheerful outlook is one of the pleas¬ 
antest in the entire house, and with the sewing-room, and living- 
room, combines to bestow upon the rear of the dwelling the con¬ 
sideration of which it is worthy. 
The dwelling complete is an interesting example of suc¬ 
cessful and tasteful 
remodeling. Exter¬ 
ior and interior are 
wholly in harmony, 
and the result is a 
comfortable and at¬ 
tractive home, se¬ 
cured at a much less 
cost than if an en¬ 
tirely new house had 
been built. 
Besides this it is 
an interesting exam¬ 
ple of an architect’s 
ideas of tying the 
the house and its setting to¬ 
gether. In its original state 
it had the appearance of being 
dropped on top of the ground 
and seemed no more perma¬ 
nent than a tent. The archi¬ 
tect, realizing the possibilities 
of an irregular site, made the 
additions fit into the topogra¬ 
phy by giving a descending 
series of roof lines and com¬ 
pleting this with a lattice on 
the same principle. (The 
first illustration shows this to 
advantage.) In this way, 
when the vines are grown, the 
house will be an integral part 
of the landscape and blend 
into it rather than stand out 
from it as it did before re¬ 
modeling. This is alteration 
of the right kind. 
The library was finished in dark brown and surrounded with built-in 
bookshelves of corresponding color 
The old house had its principal rooms facing the street. The changes made took advantage 
of a fine view by putting the most lived-in rooms on the other side 
The kitchen was not neglected and was made serviceable by its quota of 
useful built-in furniture 
