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around. Then, too, if the 
slight additional expense he 
permitted, the studding - may 
be covered with pulp-board 
or compo-board, a compara¬ 
tively thin but rigid material 
that may be painted or, better 
still, covered with a rough 
fabric in cool gray, apple 
green or a pleasing shade of 
brown. 
If the bungalow walls are 
built of one of the more sub¬ 
stantial materials, such as ce¬ 
ment, there are great possi¬ 
bilities in working out inter¬ 
esting surface textures for 
the interior, with the use of inset tiles to gain 
the desired spots of color. 
No bungalow is worthy of the name with¬ 
out at least one big fireplace for the living- 
room, and if additional ones may be built in 
the bedrooms, so much the better—these will 
be fully appreciated in early spring and late 
fall. Stonework seems to harmonize best for 
the chimneys and breasts with wooden walls, 
and rough brick, tile or cement, if the latter 
material is employed throughout the building. 
In any case make sure that the fireplace and 
its flue are built along scientifically correct 
lines—a fireplace that smokes is of less real 
gar ding 
Another Belle Terre bungalow, with entrance at the rear. The broad 
piazza in front commands a magnificent view of the Sound. Geo. 
Merritt Waid, architect 
First floor of the building shown 
above. The studding inside is 
left uncovered 
practical value than a gas-log. 
Just a word in closing, re- 
foundations. With 
walls of concrete, stone or 
brick the foundation under¬ 
pinning will, of course, have 
to be of concrete or stone, 
carried to bedrock or to a 
solid footing below the frost¬ 
line. With bungalows of 
wooden construction consid¬ 
erable expense may be saved 
by building on piers of ma¬ 
sonry or even on locust posts 
that are set well into the 
ground, resting upon a broad 
flat stone footing'. If this 
form of foundation is chosen be sure that the 
sill girders, set on the posts for the support 
of uprights and floor joists, are as near the 
ground as convenient. The space between the 
posts should be latticed. In other words, keep 
the building low down on the ground if it is 
to merit the title of bungalow. 
Frequently a supply of gravel will be un¬ 
covered in digging out for the foundations. 
If it is, the problem of masonry supports, 
either as walls or piers, is half solved. With 
an outside supply of cement only, the founda¬ 
tions can be laid up of concrete, or the latter 
may be tamped around the locust posts. 
Making the Porch More Livable 
THE WONDERFUL POSSIBILITIES IN THIS DISTINCTIVELY AMERICAN FEATURE OF COUNTRY AND 
SUBURBAN HOMES—SUGGESTIONS FOR FURNISHING AND DECORATING IT AS AN OUTDOOR ROOM 
by Lucy Abbot Throop 
Photographs by Jessie Tarbox Beals and others 
O NLY a few years ago a porch was a porch to the average 
person (like the famous primrose to Peter Bell), “and 
it was nothing more.” Now porches and piazzas have come 
into their own and they help vastly in bringing more gayetv and 
pleasantness and healthfulness 
into our lives. Wherever one 
turns one finds the furnished 
porch ; for sleeping, for din¬ 
ing, for living-rooms, it may 
be large or it may be small, 
it may be built for the pur¬ 
pose. or it may be a makeshift, 
but the ideal of outdoor living 
is there and is steadily gaining 
ground, and everyone tries to 
have at least a small portion 
of the open where they can 
be comfortable and where 
mosquitoes cease from troub¬ 
ling and spiders are at rest. 
The ideal porch is broad 
and large enough to allow one 
always to find a shady and 
protected spot. It should be 
so planned that it is an absolutely necessary and convincing part 
of the architecture and not an excrescence or afterthought that 
it so many times seems to be. It may be an open porch or have 
pillars supporting beams or a roof, or it may have only a balus¬ 
trade or a low wall or coping 
with a broad and comfortable 
top. Low easy steps should 
lead to the driveway and gar¬ 
den, awnings and vines should 
cast a pleasant shade, and 
shrubbery and gay flower bor¬ 
ders add to its charm. The 
chairs should be so arranged 
that the best views are taken 
advantage of without the trou¬ 
ble of moving the furniture. 
One may not be able to 
have one of these large and 
entrancing porches, but that 
is no reason for going with¬ 
out one entirely. A summer 
in town is not so bad if one 
can find some place about the 
house where a porch or a 
Willow or wicker furniture is not at all expensive and it will redeem 
almost any porch 
