House and Garden 
eleven, ranging in size from a riny one, for a bottle— 
of medicine—to a young room with a window in it, 
for clothes. Every spare inch of room is a closet or 
a set of shelves or a huilt-in chest of drawers. Under 
every eave, wherever a dormer window cuts off head 
room, there is a closet. How the owner and his 
wife remember 
which of the sev¬ 
enty-two they put 
a n y p a r 1 1 c u 1 a r 
thing away in, 
must remain a 
mystery to one 
whose conception 
of the height of 
lu.xury is a whole 
closet all to him¬ 
self, hut doubtless 
the feminine read¬ 
ers of this will 
protest that such 
a problem is far 
easier of solution than that of getting the seventy- 
two closets in the first place. 
And this brings me to the way the thing was done. 
Mr. Davis had plans, of course, distinct plans, both 
in his head and on paper, hut no finished, finally 
settled blue prints were handed to a builder with 
instructions to ‘‘ £o ahead.” Mr. Davis was “ on the 
o 
job ” a great deal himself, and when he saw a place 
for a closet, there a closet was put. When some 
architectural feature of one of the old houses stood 
in the way of the completion of his plans, out it 
came. A stairway where no stairway was wanted ? 
“ Brick it up and put in a chimney, or a hot air 
pipe (brick of course).” door where no door 
should be in the new scheme .? There no door was, 
a wall taking its place. A roof with too steep a 
slant, and a house not wide enough A new roof, 
with less slant 
extending further, 
and built right 
over the old one, 
solved the diffi¬ 
cult y. A hard 
problem in con¬ 
necting house 
and barn without 
m o \ ' i n g either .? 
Not at all. “ just 
enclose it all in 
glass, and make a 
sun parlor ” and 
the thing was 
done—the present 
“ screenway ” is the result. Studio floor not firm 
enough : “ Don’t touch it,—just put a new floor 
underneath.” Not room enough in this bath¬ 
room for a tub ? “ Build an addition to the bath¬ 
room, into the hall, and put tub in that.” This 
room not larse enoimh for a bed “ Widen the 
o o ^ 
house enou<>;h here for a single bed, and we will 
put a single man guest in it, for luck.” I bis method 
was followed throughout the entire period of con¬ 
struction and the result has proven a success. 
(To he Continued.) 
THE KITCHEN END OE THE HOUSE 
THE STUDIO BY FIRELIGHT 
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