April, 1915 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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beneath the center of the patio, whence it is carried by a 4-inch 
cement pipe to the street in front of the house. 
The living- and dining-rooms are finished in oak, each room 
having a floor of 6 x 6 terra-cotta tile, brown cement border, etc. 
The dining-room has a leather-effect paper to a height of five 
feet, above which is painted in a frieze showing scenes of Cali¬ 
fornia. It has beamed ceiling, which is tinted, cement fireplace, 
buffet, etc. 
The living-room is in the natural finish of the cement, so that 
the grain of the wood which served as the forms is plainly seen. 
equipped with a 5- x 5-foot cupola above the center of the room, 
this having chipped-glass lights at the sides. This is supported by a 
cove ceiling. The furniture in all rooms matches the woodwork. 
The kitchen is a cabinet affair with 4- x 4-foot cooler having 
cement shelves, cement sinkboard, etc., while the breakfast room 
is finished with Oriental paper and handwork. The sun parlor 
has a 7- x 16-foot art-glass roof. Upon a background of light 
blue is a pergola in dark brown, interlaced upon which is a rose 
vine bearing dark-red and pink flowers. At the center of the 
sun-parlor floor is a panel of 6 x 6 tiling, this effect also being 
carried out on the front porch and the ap¬ 
proach between the house and the side¬ 
walk. 
The doors of this house are all of the 
“slab" variety, being flush with the walls. 
In the planning of the house an effort was 
made to eliminate woodwork, and thus 
trim down the work for the housekeeper. 
There is no wood base, no picture mould¬ 
ing, no casing nor stool. Throughout the 
house 6-inch transoms cap the windows, 
and at points where there are two or three 
windows in a row, a single-light transom 
runs the entire width. Nearly all of the 
windows are of the casement variety. An 
idea original with the owner was to swing 
these windows outward, placing them out¬ 
side the screen, thus protecting the screen 
from the weather. The curtains are fas¬ 
tened to the outside windows, coming be¬ 
tween the glass windows and the screens 
and permitting the using of one long cur¬ 
tain across the entire width of the two or 
three lights. All the floors, except where 
otherwise stated, are of cement, and 
throughout the ceilings are tinted and are 
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Glassed in, the patio becomes a room 
pervious to the weather, an avenue of 
to the various rooms 
itself, 
access 
Neither the walls nor ceilings have been 
decorated in any way. The brazier or 
fireplace in the living-room is a novel 
feature. Both the basin and the hood 
of this brazier are of hammered copper, 
while the screen is of copper wire. It 
is located a little in front of the center 
of the room. The occupants of the 
room may sit on all sides of this fire¬ 
place, the sides of the basin serving as 
foot-rests. An important point about 
this brazier is that after the fire has 
secured a good start the hood may be 
raised, the upper part of the “neck" dis¬ 
appearing into the ceiling, thereby per¬ 
mitting the occupants to see one an¬ 
other and talk across the fire. 
Both the living- and dining-rooms 
have io-foot plate-glass windows, simi¬ 
lar windows being located on either side 
of the sun parlor, one facing the street, 
the other the patio. 
1 he family and guest bedrooms are 
finished in mahogany, with cut glass 
doorknobs and doors with full-length 
bevel mirrors. The family bedroom is 
The most attractive feature of this many-featured living-room is the brazier. The walls here are left rough finished, 
the floors laid as in the dining-room, and the woodwork being eliminated to simple door and window frames 
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