The living-room is finished in soft brown, which makes an excellent background for tapestry hangings. An interesting feature is the built-in bookcases flanking the window. 
Italian furniture is in artistic harmony with the house design 
rooms on the first floor are few, but well shaped, and the waste 
space of excessive halls and passages avoided. 
The living-room with soft brown walls as a background for 
tapestry and paintings, book shelves filled, as our friend said, with 
everything from "Happy Hawkins" to the "Geological Survey of 
New Jersey, and furniture brought from the old houses of Italy, 
is to us pleasing and restful. Others may prefer greater pro¬ 
fusion, chairs more comfortable and less artistic, and colors more 
stimulating and vivid. 
To the planning of the practical portions of our house we gave 
great thought. — 
not only my wife 
and I, but my 
partner. In fact, 
he was pestered 
to such an extent 
that he claims I 
was the most 
troublesome c 1 i- 
ent the office ever 
had, and that if 
our other clients 
were like me we 
would soon be 
driven from our 
profession. 
This m in ute 
study and thought 
on our part has 
Examination of the plans reveals an absence of waste hall space and a great convenience of arrangement, some of the elements of which 
are: No projecting closets, cupboard shelves accessible from both kitchen and pantry, and windows on both sides of all 
rooms 
