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(Continued from page 37) 
but it was due to the fact that they 
were practical solutions of definite 
problems. 
One is apt to forget that architec¬ 
ture is not simply the making of 
drawings and pictures, but the erec¬ 
tion of properly designed and con¬ 
structed buildings, economically and 
efficiently. 
I believe the average client comes 
into the architect’s office with a kind 
of contempt for the architect’s ability 
as a business man, due perhaps to 
this question of cost. The question 
as to how much a building is going 
to cost, before the sketches are made 
establishing something to estimate 
upon, is no more business-like than 
the proverbial one of how long is a 
piece of string, and a business man, 
astute enough in the ordinary rela¬ 
tions of life, should realize that this 
definite basis is necessary, and that 
the architect must present his ideas 
in the form of sketches in order to 
illustrate graphically his word de¬ 
scription. 
The estimate is not generally 
understood by the client. There are 
so many classes of houses in which 
no one can foretell with any ac¬ 
curacy what the client is going to 
want that any estimate before 
sketches are made and a brief 
outline specification must be very 
approximate. But when the client 
presumes to dictate (as he often 
does) the style, the materials, and 
even to interfere in questions of plan, 
the architect’s power to govern the 
cost of the building is largely taken 
from him. The client should realize 
that an architect is not a magician. 
He is just as dependent as the owner 
on the contractor. He cannot by a 
wave of his pencil make a $10,000 
house cost $5,000. 
On this account the small suburban 
house is a difficult problem and one 
that is not always financially interest¬ 
ing to the architect. This may ac¬ 
count for the scarcity of well de¬ 
signed small houses and so many 
built without proper plans that are 
misfits in the communities, unrentable 
and salable only at a loss, and pro¬ 
ductive of undesirable streets that 
keep valuable suburban districts from 
becoming good residential sections. 
The problem of housing is brought 
about by cheap growth and develop¬ 
ment without proper architectural ad¬ 
vice, including poor planning, faulty 
construction and defective sanitation, 
aggravated by the greed of some 
landlords, carelessness of tenants and 
ignorance of the laws of hygiene. 
The result of bad housing is ill 
health, both physical and moral, and 
thereby industrial inefficiency, unem¬ 
ployment, and a long chain of social 
maladies which are very costly to the 
community, and which place a heavy 
handicap upon individual and social 
achievement. In some cases igno¬ 
rance is the cause, but ignorance of 
first cost and its relation to final cost 
is the root of it. 
Man’s dwelling exerts a marked in- ■ 
fluence upon his life, and character. 
From one-third to one-half of his 
time and much more than half of the 
time of women and children is spent 
at home. Bad housing conditions af¬ 
fect health insidiously by slowly 
undermining the vitality and thus 
rendering the individual susceptible 
to disease. 
Poor construction is due to poor 
planning and designing, first cost and 
income being the first consideration. 
Sunlight and air you must have. An 
invariable rule is to have the living 
rooms on the south, with hallways 
and kitchen on the north. If your 
cost is limited, it may be necessary to 
give up the luxuries for the more 
practical features of plan and con¬ 
struction. 
To the young couple planning their 
first home everything looks so simple 
and bright that their enthusiasm leads 
them to picture a sunny vine-covered 
cottage spick and span inside, com¬ 
fortable and convenient in winter as 
well as summer. That is the picture 
as described to the architect, to cost 
five thousand dollars in New England 
and twenty-five hundred dollars in 
other sections. The young couple are 
disappointed when they find that this 
simple little vine-covered vision in 
reality costs a little more than they 
had to spend. At that point they 
should try to concentrate on the prac¬ 
tical essentials. 
The Return of the Painted Panel 
( Continued, from page 49) 
rations in rich tones are wonderfully 
effective and not expensive. The flow¬ 
ers should be held in a basket and the 
colors selected for the flowers should 
tone in with the hangings, woodwork, 
and upholstery. If the walls are 
light, the panels should be consist¬ 
ent in tone. These flower panels 
are reminiscent of old Dutch inte¬ 
riors. The question of the appro¬ 
priateness of pictures in a dining¬ 
room seems thus effectively solved. 
One mirror, and two oval, decora¬ 
tive painted panels would be quite 
enough. 
At the time of Louis XVI the 
Chinese influence was strongly felt, 
and this showed particularly in their 
painted panels, filled with arabesques 
and Chinese figures and scenes, ex¬ 
quisitely done in delicate tones, they 
made the ideal wall decoration. A 
modem room after this style must 
be furnished appropriately and 
sparsely that these panels be accorded 
their full attention. Intricate in 
workmanship, delicate in color, they 
are possessed of a charming, hu¬ 
morous pictorial detail. 
Chinese carved and printed panels 
are effective when placed in the side 
wall—not on to it—or better still, 
where one gets a view through them, 
for they are particularly decorative 
en silhouette. 
A dining-room with good Japan¬ 
ese prints framed into the side wall 
panelling requires other accessories 
of Japanese design. Japanese prints 
are truly decorative, and thus lend 
themselves to such a treatment. 
Their soft tones do not give a 
spotted appearance. 
Wall papers of Chinese or other 
distinctly decorative designs may be 
used as a panel. They may be en¬ 
closed in mouldings, antiqued and 
lacquered, and make a very striking 
wall treatment. The paper must be 
of good quality and the design ex¬ 
cellent. 
Simple peasant designs may be 
painted on panels and used effect¬ 
ively; also the modernist designs re¬ 
peated in the panels of a painted 
side wall add an individual touch to 
an otherwise commonplace room. 
On a deep cream side wall with large 
spaced panels, a small simple design, 
may be repeated in each panel in 
soft greens, orange and a little blue. 
This is done to a great extent in 
Austria, and with success. It should 
be carefully spaced and colored to 
avoid spottiness. 
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