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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 1914 
plaster. This well-ventilated wall makes the house exception¬ 
ally warm in winter and cool in summer, and dry at all times. 
The wide overhang of the 
roof with its exposed rafters 
and red-stained shingles is 
simplicity in itself and pleas¬ 
ing to the eye. 
In a small plan where ser¬ 
vants are done away with, 
the living-room should be the 
largest room and the hall re¬ 
duced to the minimum. In 
this plan the hall and living- 
room are thrown together yet 
kept separate in appearance 
by a wide wooden beam in 
the ceiling, which gives indi¬ 
viduality to each and adds 
much valuable space without 
sacrificing the comforts of 
the home. 
A suburban living-room 
without a fireplace would be 
a sad mistake, and in this 
plan a simple red brick fire¬ 
place is located in the end of 
the room. Brick corbels sup¬ 
port the plain oak shelf. 
The living-room is located 
so that there is an east, south 
and west exposure, giving 
plenty of light and desirable 
sunshine. 
From the French doors at 
the side of the living-room 
one enters on a screened 
porch where the owner can 
enjoy the best outlook, sun¬ 
shine and breeze. In the 
winter, sash replace the 
screens and the open summer 
porch is transformed into a 
sun-parlor or conservatory. 
As extreme size is not es¬ 
sential to the dining-room 
for a small family, a room 
thirteen feet by fifteen feet, 
giving a seating capacity for 
a dozen persons is large 
enough. This room opens directly from the living-room and is 
wainscoted four feet six inches high with plain battened panels 
and capped with 
a neat plate rail. 
Simple china cabi¬ 
nets with leaded 
glass doors to the 
height of the 
wainscoting fill the 
end of the room. 
The entire first 
floor except the 
kitchen and rear 
grade entrance, 
which is finished 
with yellow pine, 
is trimmed with 
clear chestnut and finished with wax. The second floor is 
finished in white except the doors, which were stained ma¬ 
hogany. The oak floors were 
laid with white and red oak, 
giving a pleasing color. 
As the pantry was elimi¬ 
nated in this plan, the kitchen 
connection is direct from the 
dining-room. This kitchen 
is ten by fifteen feet, ample- 
in size to accommodate the 
cases and the required para¬ 
phernalia and at the same 
time affords sufficient free¬ 
way for the cook. 
Another screened porch is 
provided from the kitchen, 
which answers at times for 
a breakfast-porch, and pro¬ 
vides better ventilation dur¬ 
ing the warm weather. A 
rain-water cistern was built 
underneath this porch. 
The basement contains the 
laundry, storage space, fruit- 
room and furnace room, leav¬ 
ing the upper floors free for 
the purposes to which they 
are best suited. 
Two large, well-lighted and 
ventilated bedrooms of about 
equal size are arranged on 
the street front of the house,, 
with a closet off each room 
and a linen closet from the 
hall between them. Two- 
other rooms of fair size are 
located on the opposite cor¬ 
ners and all open directly 
from the second floor hall, 
which is lighted from the 
window on the stair landing. 
The bathroom is conve¬ 
niently located to the rooms 
and in proper relation to the 
plumbing in the balance of 
the house, thus reducing the 
cost of installation and up¬ 
keep to a minimum. It is 
wainscoted five feet high with cement and blocked off like tile 
and enameled. The hot water system of heating is used through¬ 
out the house. 
All of the walls 
and ceilings in the 
house were painted 
with a cold-water 
paint. 
Considering the 
small size of the 
house, the spa¬ 
ciousness of the 
rooms is surpris¬ 
ing. There is no 
feeling here of 
being crowded 
and restricted. 
The rooms are airy and well lighted and, considering the size of the house, provide 
a large amount of space 
Although the general treatment is essentially simple, the entrance comes in for special 
attention with its dignified lines 
The screened porches add materially to the living space 
on the first floor 
The stairs are admirably planned to encroach but little 
on the room space 
