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House & Garden 
I would have 
bought that house 
hit for one thing" 
“I turned the faucet in the bath¬ 
room while the real estate agent 
was showing us around. The water 
was rusty—even in this new house. 
I knew that meant rusty, dirty- 
looking water for my morning 
bath and shave.” 
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Corroded pipe brings not only 
rusty water, dripping faucets and 
leaks, bu t the inevitable annoyance 
and expense of plumbing repairs. 
Yet, Anaconda Brass Pipe adds 
only about $75 to the cost of a 
$15,000 house. 
Don’t buy or build un¬ 
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BACK to LOG CABINS 
(Continued from page 108) 
variety of lumber. You know what I 
mean by slab side, don’t you ? The 
cast-off stuff, rough sawed, with great 
patches of bark left on here and there. 
Prepare to be almightily snubbed by the 
mill hands when you ask for such a 
thing—and your sanity doubted. You 
may even be gently prodded toward 
the doorway and urged to get some air. 
But—stick it out! 
You get an effect with this stuff in 
your cabin “trim” and furniture, the 
doors and shelves, that is simply great 
—but more of this anon. For your 
porch you will utilize it for barge 
boards, or, if you plan this for a 
sleeping room or outer living room, 
you will use it to back your balustrade 
solidly before screening. One porch 
shown here is so backed, the boards 
being stained a forest green—against 
which the rich brown of the cedar posts 
stands out in bold -relief. 
The barge boards of The Crow’s Nest 
are of this same picturesque roughness, 
the spots not covered with bark being 
touched with the forest green stain that 
seems the natural effect of sunlight 
through a drift of leaves, the graining 
giving varying tones. 
Individual effects are gained by a 
fancy design of the balustrade and by 
a grouping of the pillars instead of 
having them spaced regularly. The 
architect’s cabin, “Squantum,” of which 
I told you before, has an interesting 
shelter formed by the roof’s extension, 
supported by posts in groups of three 
direct to the ground itself and placed 
far enough in to give wide eaves. It 
gives a very definite and interesting im¬ 
pression of the Japanese. The simplest 
and probably the most “cabinish” way 
to build your porch is to extend the 
gable end, chalet-fashion, and support 
it by pillars. From both views—inside 
and out—this is usually satisfactory, 
especially upon a small cabin. 
In The Crow’s Nest this effort is en¬ 
hanced a lot by the roof of split sap¬ 
lings, carefully matched and placed by a 
real craftsman at logwork. 
Just a word about your roof line by 
the way. If possible—which means if 
the level is practicable—have your porch 
roof an extension of your main roof. 
If this would mean that you bumped 
your fool head each time you crossed 
the porch, flatten the pitch of your 
porch roof. The average cabin porch 
looks like a barnacle on a ship’s side. 
Just keep in mind the fact that this 
ante-room is an honest-to-goodness in¬ 
tegral part of the house itself, not a 
makeshift or an afterthought. Accent 
the “log” part all you want—but make 
it a “loggia” not an “apologia”. 
THE EIREPL.ACE 
Like a kid with a couple of pieces 
of candy, I’ve saved the best for the 
last. When you say “fireplace” to me 
you have got me started rocking my 
hobby. I feel, very comprehendingly, 
that our nearest log cabin neighbor, a 
dear little Frenchwoman, speaks truly 
when she graciously asks her visitors 
to gather about “the heart”. It surely 
is the heart of the wilderness home and 
those who gather about it reflect its 
varying moods. I defy anybody to be 
downright grouchy when the fire roars 
and races crackling up the broad chim¬ 
ney—and I’ve yet to see anyone who 
does not dream his dream as he sits 
quiet before the glow of red embers. 
Ever notice how they seem to breathe 
and fade—breathe and fade? It’s the 
most heart-opening phenomenon I know 
of. Get a group of people before a deep 
fire-hearted bed of throbbing embers on 
a stormy night—and they will be tell¬ 
ing each other their middle names be¬ 
fore long. 
But don’t think this joyous harmony 
is gained by a tossing together of rocks 
helter-skelter, chinked with gobs of 
mortar. Funny thing, isn’t it, that while 
the town house must have the most 
perfect care in the design and con¬ 
struction of its fireplace, which is used 
only a few times during the winter—■ 
and then for effect rather than because 
of need—the fireplace of the vacation 
lodge upon which the joys of your days 
of freedom depend, is usually apolo¬ 
gized for as “something we stuck to¬ 
gether in a week”? And doggone it, 
you feel in duty bound to admire it 
though everything is out of plumb but 
the cracks. 
Quite understandable too. Don’t think 
you have an easy job on your hands, or 
one that you can unhesitatingly turn 
over to any of your amateur helpers 
on the job. It has got to be the most 
carefully thought out and lovingly con¬ 
structed part of your dream house. It is 
in the fireplace, too, that individual taste 
finds its greatest opportunity for ex¬ 
pression. So, make up your mind that 
nothing in your cabin is so difficult, so 
fascinating, so satisfactory in results as 
a successful fireplace. 
Just keep in mind three sine qua. 
nons: 
It must be in harmony not only 
with the architecture of the cabin but 
also the woodsy environment. 
It must be beautiful in its propor¬ 
tions—not only of a general size and 
shape to suit the room, but also in its. 
related parts. 
It must be completely practicable—it 
must draw well. 
.As long as you keep to native material 
the first of these will be difficult to 
escape. The rocks of your fireplace are 
going to look as if they belonged in 
that place, if they actually do belong 
there. One of the fireplaces of which 
I send you the picture, built of rock 
found within easy hauling distance, is 
so identical in coloring, and carefully 
attained ruggedness with the cliff visi¬ 
ble just beyond it through an open 
window, that it gives the wall of the 
large living room the effect of having 
been hewn out of the cliff itself. 
Now as to proportions: if you have 
not an intuitive feeling for proportion, 
by heck, I don’t know what you are 
going to do about it. Ask your wife. 
Women usually have a good eye for 
balance. Or, get a consensus of opinion 
—and then do what you intended to 
in the first place. Too small a fireplace 
and chimney for the size of your room 
gives the whole the air of a playhouse— 
too large leaves you breathless with a 
sense of being overpowered. 
I don't want to give any rigid math¬ 
ematical suggestions, but the actual pro¬ 
portions of our fireplace to the longest I 
dimension of the room seem to be 
about one-third. This is generous and 
will give the effect of massiveness with¬ 
out being overwhelming. 
Another uniform characteristic of our i 
fireplace is that the openings are built 
up from the floor. More practical from 
every standpoint—especially if j-ou are i 
going to utilize your fireplace as an 
adjunct to the stove in cooking (as you 
are sure to do). It heats the room bet¬ 
ter and it is, we think, more attractive. 
However, wallow on the floor if you i 
want to when you cook—it’s really a ; 
matter of taste. 
Not so the practicable aspect of your 
fireplace, however, for there is nothing t 
more detrimental to the general morale ; 
of the best sportsmen in the world than, I 
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