HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 19x0 
Mr. John Kendrick Bangs has a lattice-sheltered terrace with a garden 
at one end on his Ogunquit (Maine) home 
appropriate. Awnings are perhaps the most commonly used 
devices for sheltering the terrace when the sun is too strong. There 
are other ways of securing the desired effect, however, one of which 
is shown at the top of the preceding page, where a pergola motive 
has been used. Another scheme of somewhat similar nature is 
that shown in the first picture at the top of this page, where Mr. 
John Kendrick Bangs has sheltered his terrace with a 
lattice at the sides and merely the open rafters above. The latter, 
of course, will in time be partly covered with vines. This 
terrace has a splendid suggestion also in the little garden at 
the end, which comes very near making the ideal outdoor living- 
room. 
Another development of the terrace, resulting from the need 
for vines, has been carried out in several New England homes. 
A lattice, either flat on the wall at the side of the front entrance, 
or sheltering the latter in the form of an arbor, has been put up, 
and a hole some two feet square left in the brick or tile paving 
just at the side of the foot of the lattice, in which vines may be 
planted. 
It is a rather common impression that a brick-paved terrace 
is an expensive luxury. As a matter of fact it may be no more 
costly than a porch of the same size. The filling in for the 
paving may well be of cinder and if this is well tamped down and 
covered with several inches of sand, the paving bricks may be 
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With the open terrace the mid-day awning shelter may be rolled back 
leaving the place open to the breezes and stars at evening 
laid upon this without cement. This makes a thoroughly satis¬ 
factory job, particularly if the bricks are laid to slope slightly 
towards a drain at one or two points. This drain may consist 
of a piece of terra-cotta pipe extending down through the cinder 
filling and covered at the top on the paving level with a perforated 
iron strainer. This will not appear nearly so conspicuous as it 
sounds. If the terrace is not very wide it may be sloped to the 
outside edge so that it will drain off. If wood is used for the floor 
it will be necessary to slope it in the same way. 
Unless the terrace is almost or quite flush with the level of the 
ground some sort of a boundary wall is needed. This, of course, 
would have to be laid up with mortar and will look much better 
usually if broken at intervals and at the corners by piers of 
slightly greater thickness. The top course of bricks may extend 
slightly over the wall to give a drip, or a capping of bluestone or 
cement may take its place. 
Cement used as a paving material for the terrace is rather 
monotonous and cold if used alone. There are ways of getting 
around this, such as using cement panels between brick borders. 
Red quarry tiles, too, will serve as a framework for the cement, 
and occasionally the latter itself is colored by the addition of 
dark sand or mineral coloring matter. As a general rule, how¬ 
ever, it is better to depend upon a companion material to supply 
the required warmth, leaving the cement in its natural color. 
This porch is the tail that wags the dog, darkening besides the 
important first-story rooms of the house 
A wooden-floored deck porch is durable if sloped and well protected by 
paint, but brick, tile or cement paving is more suitable 
