HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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The problem of a porch is a different one with the seaside cottage. This is almost like the deck of a ship, and takes every advantage of the ocean 
breeze and permits a long promenade in unfavorable weather 
way undesirable, although for an all-year-round house direct 
entrance to the living-room is by no means satisfactory. The 
bedrooms may be much smaller, and as a rule in the seaside house 
the bathrooms are reduced in number in many cases, especially 
where an approach to re.al camp life is desired; servants’ quarters 
are reduced to the minimum or omitted altogether, 
a guide doing- 
all such work as is not borne by the family themselves, and his 
quarters are as a rule separate from the main structure. Of 
course no general rules can be laid down as to the plan and type 
of house, which runs over a wide range of costs, but it may in 
general be said that one, or at most two, large living-rooms are 
preferable to the three or four suited to the more complex sub¬ 
division of life in permanent homes. Oftentimes one room which 
serves as dining-room and sitting-room both is used, or where 
people really enjoy a sort of camp life, they combine the kitchen 
and dining-room. Again, in the matter 
®f construction there is considerably 
more latitude permissible; a house 
either at the seashore or mountains, 
where the weather is always cool, can 
be very lightly constructed, since the 
necessity of insulating the entire struc¬ 
ture against heat in summer and cold 
in winter is removed. The illustrations 
of the Haynes house show examples 
where the framing is left eKposed and 
illustrate how attractive a construction 
of this kind can be made. The wood¬ 
work of the Haynes house is stained a 
dull gray. Such interiors as these re¬ 
quire very inexpensive furnishing and 
decoration. The rough tables, the grass 
mats and the general type of furnish¬ 
ings are inexpensive in the extreme and 
perfectly suitable to the character of 
the building, and another valuable fea¬ 
ture is that there is no plaster to grow 
damp and musty while the house is 
closed, and no wall-paper to peel off un¬ 
heated walls. Of course the loss of in¬ 
sulation against heat and cold is ac¬ 
companied by the corresponding loss' 
of sound-proof qualities, and if one can- 
An idea for a camp was taken from the negro cabin roofed with shakes. 
The ends are living quarters, the open space between, the dining-room 
The summer house should appear to rise out of the ground rather than to be set upon it. Simple 
lines, modest construction, and plenty of ventilation — these are summer home requisites 
