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House & Garden 
IF YOU ARE GOING TO BUILD 
The Windows Should Be Considered From Their Most 
Important Aiigle—the Inside of the House 
MARY FANTON ROBERTS 
substituted on the walls, would be apt 
to rise from the ground a somewhat dis¬ 
mal structure. Yet, from the outside, 
these openings serve no practical pur¬ 
pose. They are extremely awkward en¬ 
trances, and the last thing we would 
want them to do is to destroy the 
privacy of the home. But because they 
are so important a part of the exterior 
design we should pay some attention 
to the effect their size and spacing will 
have upon the house from without when 
we are determining their proportions 
and positions within. 
There is a temptation to have too 
many windows and to have them too 
large. We try to get more sunlight, air, 
and view than we can actually use, and 
we spend the rest of our indoor days 
behind half-drawn shades and half- 
closed windows. Look at the houses in 
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French windows and casements, curt¬ 
ained in flowered chintz, flood with 
light this colorful living room that 
is used as a dining room as well. Rich¬ 
ard H. Dana, Jr., was the architect. 
A S windows belong primarily to 
the inside of the house, it is 
from there they should first be 
considered. Anything they may have 
done to influence the exterior architec¬ 
ture of the house—and no other one 
thing has done more, has been because 
somebody, forgotten ages ago, wanted 
for his room some daylight, air, and a 
view. Ever since, they have been as¬ 
suming greater importance as part of 
the-decoration of the outside walls, until 
now their first excuse for existence 
seems in some slight danger of neglect. 
To reiterate,—daylight, air, and a view 
are good things to keep in mind when¬ 
ever the subject of windows comes up. 
Art and ingenuity may be depended 
upon to make the most of the holes 
windows pierce in the walls of the 
house. A house without windows, un¬ 
less another means of decoration were 
Window openings that fit in groined 
arches and show a wide stucco reveal 
can only be filled by leaded case¬ 
ments, as in this example of which 
Johnson & Ford were the architects. 
