HOUSE AND GARDEN 
Apri 
L, 
Above the high wainscot of the dining-room is a frieze painted with scenes of California. 
oak, the floor terra cotta tile, set in a brown cement border 
The woodwork is 
concrete in the forms to hold them the vertical rods were placed 
in position. After this concrete had set, the floor slab was poured. 
When the concrete already in place was sufficiently strong the 
wall forms were erected and the concrete and steel of the walls 
placed. The pouring of the roof slab was accomplished just as 
soon as the walls were strong enough to support it with safety. 
It will be seen that these different sections were so joined as to 
make practically one solid piece. The concrete brackets for the 
awnings over the windows were placed during the construction 
of the walls, having been 
made ten or twelve days 
previous. When the 
forms were removed the 
2jG-inch slabs beneath 
the red tiling of these 
awnings were set in posi¬ 
tion. 
The outside walls of 
this home are six inches 
A substantial post for the clothes dryer was 
made of concrete, to be later planted with 
honeysuckle 
of Class A construc¬ 
tion, built of 3/4 
Sharron iron chan¬ 
nels, metal lath and 
plastered to a thick¬ 
ness of 2 y / 2 inches. 
It will be seen that 
there is nothing to 
decay or give way, 
everything b e i n g 
solid and substan¬ 
tial. 
The home is of 
unique arrangement, the rooms being formed around a spacious, 
open-air patio. Fresb air and sunlight enter two sides of each 
of the principal rooms every sunshiny day. Double French doors 
connect the patio with the living-room, dining-room, breakfast 
room, kitchen, family bedroom, guest bedrooms, screen porch, 
plunge and dark room, making accessibility of one part of the 
home to another a very impor¬ 
tant feature. The patio has 
cement floor and walls, except¬ 
ing the parts taken up by doors 
and windows, while the roof 
is of copper wire screen hav¬ 
ing H-inch mesh. Tt is drained 
to the center, at which point it 
drops through a pipe into a 
concrete box. The roof being 
of concrete, no especially pre¬ 
pared roofing is needed. This 
is used as a sun parlor and a 
playground for the children. 
It is drained to the four cor¬ 
ners of the patio, at which 
points the waste water enters 
pipes that convey it to the box 
Utilitarian throughout, concrete was employed even in such a small detail 
as the making of a chicken coop, rat proof and easily kept clean 
Concrete work was used even in the garden struc¬ 
ture. The pergola is a permanent structure, and 
when covered with vines will prove of genuine 
decorative value 
thick and of solid concrete, reinforced 
by D - and %-inch twisted steel bars, be¬ 
ing placed two feet on centers. The 
beams are reinforced by steel bars, while 
the roof and floor slabs are three inches 
in thickness and reinforced by electric 
welded fabric, this having Nos. 3 and 8 
wires, the No. 3 wires running longi¬ 
tudinally of the house or the longest way 
of the slabs. All interior partitions are 
