January, 1915 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
49 
charming autumn effect. The brilliant 
red branches of the Cornus and the vivid 
green stems of the Kerria give a very 
effective winter contrast. 
At the farther end of the lawn the vista 
is terminated by a wonderful old spruce 
tree backed by a semi-circular lattice. A 
row of white stepping-stones leads from 
the terrace to the spruce and turns at right 
angles to enter the stable court. Even in 
this court the winter effect has been 
thought of: the bright red of barberries is 
contrasting with the black berries of Re- 
gel’s privet. 
Doorways and Their Approaches 
(Continued from page 23) 
consciously develop a family garden on 
the side of his house opposite the street, 
the full completeness of this attractive 
picture is seldom realized. 
Even when the house of open plan has 
its entrance and hall thus arranged, modi¬ 
fications are possible, merely by interpos¬ 
ing a vestibule, for instance — a needed ele¬ 
ment in northern latitudes — it is easy to 
break up the over-intimacy of such an en¬ 
trance. The entire plan—including the 
south garden—can be realized and exclu¬ 
sively reserved for the use of the house 
occupants by arranging a reception (plan 
B) room, entered from this vestibule, to 
catch and hold the casual stranger. Or 
the vestibule can be enlarged to form a 
larger space, a small entrance hall, if you 
will; perhaps graced with a grate or fire¬ 
place. If entered, for instance, from the 
side instead of the front (plan C), such a 
hall would prove the cheeriest of wel¬ 
comes to a desirable visitor in a way that 
is utterly impossible when he is at once 
thrown into the larger stretches of a 
"living” or “staircase” hall, with all its 
consequent drafts and the discomforts of 
passing necessary from the uses to which 
such a room is subjected. 
In this later suggestion we more nearly 
approximate the English, rather than the 
American, ideal. But is not that, after 
all, the path that is already being discov¬ 
ered and traced by our American home¬ 
builders? This is being used instead of 
the door placed smack in the middle of 
the house, perhaps defended by a small 
porch with columns, side lights on either 
side and top light that was, twenty years 
ago, unavoidable in every house of Co¬ 
lonial aspect. Such a porch as this was 
always approached by a flight of steps at 
least three, more often four, frequently 
five, and occasionally six in number, thus 
elevating the house a considerable dis¬ 
tance above the lawn and permitting that 
doubtless desirable — but seemingly incon¬ 
sistent household companion — a “light and 
airy basement”! 
But this advantage has also been found 
to be obtained at somewhat too great a 
cost. Stilts have never proved a sightlv 
aid to locomotion. If we were living in 
prehistoric times, the tree-built dwelling 
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