HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 1913 | 
The Beauty of an Italian Garden 
Modernized by Concrete 
Even less pretentious country homes may now have the 
formal beauty of Italian gardens by an artistic use of con¬ 
crete in building terraces and balustrades, gateways, pergolas, 
peristyles, aquariums, sundials, sidewalks, flower vases, etc,, 
on the place. Concrete blends beautifully with the land¬ 
scape, as did the marble and stone of an earlier period. It is 
also fireproof and everlasting; requires no upkeep; never looks 
old and shabby from time and exposure. For best results, use 
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. , . . . FRICK BUILDING 
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Residence of J. L. Johnson, Esq., Hackensack, N. J. 
Maun & MacNeille, Architects, New York 
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Mistakes We Made in Building 
Our House 
( Continued from page 20 ) 
bathroom,” as the second bathroom is 
usually termed, is frequently placed in 
a most exposed position as regards the 
cold. Over a vestibule is a cold loca¬ 
tion, and will cause trouble without a 
doubt in severe winter weather. Try 
and plan for a bathroom to be on a side 
of the house where cold winter winds are 
not so likely to strike it. It is also a mis¬ 
taken theory that piping and apparatus 
may freeze and if thawed out no damage 
results. Washers are ruined and “ball- 
cocks” (these ball-cocks shut off the water 
supply when flush tanks have been filled 
to the amount they should hold) injured 
by the water being allowed to freeze 
around them. Then water flows away to 
waste, often unknown until a large bill for 
water comes in. Then a plumber’s bill 
also comes for repairs which are necessary. 
We have just been through a most dis¬ 
couraging and expensive experience of 
this kind, and we think it will be necessary 
to shut off certain sections of our plumb¬ 
ing and drain out all water for the best 
part of the winter season simply to prevent 
expense and annoyance from frozen piping 
and apparatus. All of this could have 
been prevented by care in the beginning 
as regards the location of the bathrooms. 
Putting a bathroom in a cold location is 
simply inviting disaster. But many a 
house is built (as was ours) without care 
in this direction simply because experience 
is lacking. Covering piping with insulating 
coverings aids. Many good coverings are 
on the market, and may be purchased and 
put on at reasonable rates. Try and have 
all piping laid so it will not be on a wall 
which is on the outside of the house. If 
absolutely necessary to place it in such a 
position lay a, strip of wood on the wall 
first and use an insulated covering. 
On the second story, our bathroom had 
a floor made of wood. If you have a 
similar floor, arrange to have it put down 
in sections near where the piping passes 
through it. This method allows one to 
take up a section easily and make any 
necessary repairs to traps, pipes between 
the floors, etc., and is a money saver. We 
wished we had only known of it when we 
built our home ; it would have saved us 
much money as years went by. 
A favorite method at times is to build 
one or more of the second story rooms out 
from the main house, sometimes over a 
piazza, or simply as an extension or bay 
window. Rooms built this way are very 
difficult and expensive to heat, so that 
children find it impossible to play on the 
floor in the winter time (the very time 
they are in the house playing) on account 
of the floor being so cold. We would 
think of this if we built another home. 
We would also have a square hall on 
the second floor and plan our rooms to 
open off it instead of long narrow halls 
which waste so much valuable space and 
which require so much more coal in the 
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