HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 
1914 
455 
From the balcony one enters the rooms apportioned to the guests. The little window 
in the wall opens out from the large master’s bedroom. 1 he many openings pro¬ 
vide a perfect cross-ventilation 
Owing to the irregular level of the foundation the ground floor rooms have a pleas¬ 
ing irregularity. One climbs four steps to the dining-room. Note the appropriate 
built -in sideboard 
wind may blow. The roof, however, has a proper air space be¬ 
tween the ceiling itself, and is insulated to the right degree. Such 
double-storied living-rooms are attractive anywhere, but their 
greatest fitness is in the summer home of this type. Their one 
drawback is that they look bare and dreary. In this house the 
brilliant colors of the native rugs, the warm richness of the wood¬ 
work and the beamed treatment of the ceiling does away with this 
objection. 
The outside of the house is a masterpiece of harmonious color¬ 
ing. After the plaster (it is of hollow tile and plaster) had dried 
it was altogether “unlike its surroundings.” The magazines ad¬ 
vised against this. It glared painfully. After a few meditative 
cigars he evolved a way to help this. He scraped some clay from 
the ground and soaked it in salt water (so that it would eventually 
dry with the glisten of the salty cliffs). He burned the thorns 
from the large-leaved cactus 
( opuntias ) that grow in the hol¬ 
lows of the cliffs, then steeped 
them a bit in fresh water to get 
out the transparent glue. This 
sticky substance he mixed with 
the salt-soaked clay to the con¬ 
sistency of paint, and painted the 
whole surface of the house with 
it. The result is that the house 
stands as if in one piece with the 
ground. It rests upon the bluff as if heaped there bv the elements 
when they modeled the shores. As softly mellow as if the ages 
had made it so. Of course, the man who could make so artistic a 
rambling, properly toned house, built the chimney of whatever 
stones he could find all about, heaping them together without the 
dark cut of the trowel showing painfully. 
His planting is also excellent. He has "tied the house to the 
ground” with native plants, pines, creeping cypress, beach asters, 
marigolds and sand verbenas. The plants other than those of 
native growth are the kind all men choose, bright, cheery things 
that look at home against the mellow cream of the house. There 
is a little kitchen garden to add the touch of “domesticity,” planted 
in neat rows, out by the kitchen door, in the jog made by the 
servants’ suite. Yes, the servant has a suite of his own, a bed¬ 
room. bath and sitting room with large windows, giving him the 
same view enjoyed by the master 
of the house. This is very much 
appreciated, you may be sure, by 
the soft-treading Jap who served 
us a meal fit for a queen. Not a 
speck of dust dare show itself, for 
it would be instantly whisked out 
again. The Jap’s sitting room 
was a pleasant one. A table cov¬ 
ered with magazines and papers, 
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