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House Garden 
While the timbers in this cottage dining 
room are massive, rude cottage furniture has 
been chose?i to be in harmony with thetn. 
The fireplace is also in keeping with them 
generalities that can be applied. For 
example, the age that gave to our own 
country our Declaration of Independ¬ 
ence, our Constitution and such con¬ 
sciousness of the welfare of others as is 
evidenced in these writings, also gave us 
the exquisite highboys and lowboys, the 
refined forms in moldings and panels, the 
chaste doorways and countless other 
things that show a consciousness of sub¬ 
tle refinement in line and form. 
As in China in the i6th Century, the 
The open stairs and rough beams give cool¬ 
ness and sense of space to this cottage hall 
Natural wood furniture finished in mellow 
tones is especially suitable for the bedroom 
