HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 
1910 
of rustling leaves. Surely it is worth 
while getting up early to breakfast 
in such a jolly retreat. The entrance 
to this porch from the dining-room 
is through one of its corners, for the 
corners of the room have been cut off by windows, china cup¬ 
board and fireplace to an octagon. 
The arrangement of the kitchen part of the house is one of 
exceptional excellence. It would be a difficult thing to find a 
more convenient one the country"over. The woodwork of this 
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part of the house is all finished with an impervious enamel, 
while the walls are a flat tone of light tan. The door to the 
north gives access to the gardener’s cottage, containing quarters 
for the servants, thus easily accessible to them. This gardener’s 
cottage contains a large living-room on the first floor, with two 
large bedrooms and bath up stairs. All the walls of the rooms 
here are rough finished and toned with flat colors. 
The second floor of the house contains three large bedrooms 
and baths, and a sewing-room. 
One of the bedrooms is finished in white enameled wood¬ 
work, with rich porcelain-blue walls; another is in brown oak 
•vith buff walls; and the guest room in bog-oak with gray-green 
flat tones. All the floors are stained and waxed and covered 
with unusual rugs, in geometric pattern, of a modern sort 
woven to-day in parts of India, though they are not often 
met with in American houses. There is also a little extra bed¬ 
room in the basement of the house, and this, too, has bog-oak and 
gray-green in its scheme of finishing. The walls throughout the 
house have been left so rough and the applied color is so rich 
in hue that they have the tone 
that comes to beautiful soft-toned 
pottery. 
The stable interior is stained a 
rich brown, and all the ironwork 
about it is painted black. Stable-room for four horses has been pro¬ 
vided, and the stone wall around the stable-yard runs breast high. 
Summer will bring the garden at “Upwey” into a luxurious 
profusion of lovely plants, flowers and blossoming shrubs, with 
here and there the emerald of the evergreens. Every day it is 
becoming more and more a thing of beauty, and it could not 
help but be a joy forever. 
It needs but a glance at the illustrations to see that “Upwey” 
has been finished, furnished and decorated in a manner that is 
radically different from the great mass of modern homes. The 
cause, of course, lies not only in the owner’s taste but to a large 
extent also in his ability to secure the results that his imagination 
pictured. In this connection it is interesting to note that a card¬ 
board scale model was made of each room, and the decorative 
and color schemes tried and changed until found satisfactory. 
Of course a dozen persons can build the same sort of a house, 
and each pay a varying cost, according to his selection of the 
grades of materials, the interior finishing, and according to a 
hundred and one other things that become divergences from 
original estimates. Probably under favorable conditions one 
would expect such a house to cost him from eight to ten thousand 
dollars, depending again on the lay of the land, or it might cost 
him materially less if he adopted some of its ideas only to incor¬ 
porate with others meeting his own peculiar requirements. 
An outdoor dining-porch is one of “Upwey’s : 
most enjoyable features 
There is no wall paper in the house, 
all walls being tinted rough plaster 
A heavy wooden hood breaks the high 
expanse of living-room chimney-breast 
In winter the stucco walls and dark curving roof make a 
picturesque mass against the bleak trees 
From the front the house is entered from a grass terrace. 
At the right is the service entrance 
