Vol. XXVII—No. 1 
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1.—An informal, balanced type, with a suggestion of the Colonial feeling in the detail of the eaves and windows. It is essentially a 
walls of stucco. The arrangement of generous-sized rooms makes it the type of house for a growing family 
white house, 
having outside 
Your Type of Country House 
A VARIETY OF SUGGESTIONS BASED ON THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE TWO PERSONS 
CONCERNED: THE FAMILY, ITS NEEDS, INCLINATIONS AND PURSE; THE ARCHITECT, 
HIS RESTRICTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES—THE PRICES RANGE FROM £5,000 TO £30,000 
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CUNCE the more general diffusion, among the home-building 
O public of moderate means, of such knowledge of archi¬ 
tectural types as Colonial, Modern English, Half Timber, Italian 
and Spanish Mission, it resolves itself upon you and your archi¬ 
tect of to-day, even more than heretofore, to give careful con¬ 
sideration to the following five determining factors: 
Location and nature of site and environment. 
Size of family and number of servants (if any) and social in¬ 
clinations and demands, determining the size and number of 
rooms and baths. 
Amount of proposed expenditure determining the type of con¬ 
struction, whether of brick, tile, wood, stucco or stone. 
Inclination in furnishings determining nature of interior wood 
finish, whether painted or stained hardwood. 
Types of windows, whether sliding or swinging, large or small 
lights of glass, or leaded glass in metal sash. 
Only by assimilating all that is predominant in the above fac¬ 
tors in your problem can a happy determination of your type of 
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hottseVbe ; made, for the. design must harmonize to be a fitting 
type. 
The site, regular or irregular, coupled with the often very 
positive inclination for either lighter painted or darker stained 
interior woodwork, are often the most determining factors. 
It may even become evident that the distinct type of house 
favored does not prove to fit after the above analysis has been 
thoroughly sensed by you and your architect. This, however, 
should only go to show that, generally speaking, the enumerated 
specific types assert themselves only in the various modified forms 
of each so-called type, and then only become a house that is a 
home truly fitting for our American life and environment. 
The plan here is simply to show types, giving their possible 
substitutes in building materials, so that the reader can visualize 
for himself the kind of country house best fitted to his needs, in¬ 
clination and purse: 
I. An informal, balanced type, with a suggestion of the Co¬ 
lonial feeling in the detail of the eaves and windows. It is essen- 
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