Privacy lent a doorway recessed within a protective vestibule. Here the horizontal Modesty of line and construction characterize the details of this cottage Colonial 
lines of terrace and step also produce an approach that overcomes a heavy rising entrance. The hood seats and lattice are tied together in one congruous whole, to 
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ing and perfecting the im¬ 
pression first created. 
The extreme complexity 
of the problem now be¬ 
gins, perhaps, to be ap¬ 
parent ! All these different 
elements, beginning with 
the very location of the 
house; its relation to the 
natural surroundings; the 
position of trees; the con¬ 
tour of surface grades; 
the paths, their materials, 
widths and location; the 
should here also become evident 
those myriad and distinctive 
traces of harmonious occupancy 
and liveableness in the use that 
is being made of the house that, 
in a less evident form, can even 
be apparent upon its exterior. 
Some of these factors date 
back to the very beginning of 
the house, the arrangement of its 
plan. Is the front door to be 
so located that a stranger enter¬ 
ing the home has at once laid 
bare to him the entire mechanism 
There is openness to the entrance of conven¬ 
tional Colonial design once the threshold is 
crossed 
treatment of the street line of 
the lot with flowers, hedge, fence 
or merely with grass, the plant¬ 
ing of shrubbery or a flower 
border along the path to the 
door; all these things need to 
be differently adjusted for each 
different and individual problem, 
and each requires an harmonious treatment 
from so many different hands that it is rare¬ 
ly indeed that the result is completely satis¬ 
fying to an esthetic and impressionably trained 
observer. 
Inside the house the problem becomes still more 
complicated. Not only do the color texture of 
the floor, the walls and the ceiling, the paper that 
covers the walls, the rugs and pictures, the furni¬ 
ture, the color and material of the hangings, as 
well as the arrangement of the stairs, rooms and 
doorways, all enter into this impression, but there 
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In the indirect English plan, the recep¬ 
tion room is advanced beyond the face 
of the staircase 
The plan for entrance shown opposite, 
with doorway recessed providing a 
small hall 
With a small vestibule, the secluded 
Colonial prevents callers from be¬ 
ing precipitated upon the family. 
and machinery of its working ? 
This is always the result of 
entering a house built on the 
plan in fashion a generation 
ago—with a hall extending 
through the house from front 
to back, and large doorways 
opening into living - room 
and dining-room upon either 
side. Little privacy or seclu¬ 
sion is possible in such a dwelling once the 
stranger has won his way past the outer door-sill. 
Under more modern ways of thinking, the at¬ 
tractions of the open hall extending from the front 
to the back of the house are not deemed worth 
the sacrifices necessary to obtain them. It is true 
that in summer, in a house fronting north, it is 
very attractive to enter a hall with its opposite 
end open to the sunlight and the garden, but, as 
the American, particularly when of Puritan de¬ 
scent, seldom so far relents as to provide for and 
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