November, 1919 
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Flanking the living room door to the 
ravine are built-in dressers painted gray- 
blue, with lines of dark blue—the color 
of the furniture of the room 
wild flowers all summer, and retains 
the green of its fir trees all winter. 
Flanking these doors on either side 
are built-in open dressers painted gray- 
blue with lines of dark blue, the color 
of all the furniture and cabinet work 
in the room. Like the house itself, the 
furniture was built by local carpenters 
from the nearest village and reflects 
much credit on their sympathetic and 
intelligent handling of the owner’s 
ideas. There is a long dining table pro¬ 
vided for stormy days, a small writing 
table built against the wall, with a 
bench to match; a long roomy settle, 
built-in cupboards at the fireplace end and 
an unusually attractive small screen of four 
wood panels. The screen and the cupboard 
doors have a simple flower decoration in the 
peasant style, adding a pleasing variety to the 
two colors which predominate in the room; 
for here, as on the exterior, all door and win¬ 
dow frames and mullions are red. 
Additional Decorative Touches 
The room is lighted by old lanterns picked 
up here and there, the large central one hav¬ 
ing been a street lamp in Portland’s early 
days. With the generous use of color and 
the extremely simple, almost crude character 
of the room, much additional decoration 
would be undesirable; the owners have wisely 
confined this to the inherent parts of the 
room, such as necessary pieces of furniture 
and cabinet work, and articles in daily use. 
Two bits of Swedish embroidery have been 
used with good effect, one hung over the man¬ 
tel and the other, a long scalloped strip of 
linen, stretched across a wide group of win- 
At the other end of the living room is a 
fireplace. The painted daybed, screen and 
table all fit in with the rough structural 
scheme 
The bedrooms are compact with little 
built-in dressing tables and closets. 
The finish is open and unpretentious 
and as such is restful and pleasing 
dows. But aside from this any extra touches 
of decoration are left to the checkered table¬ 
cloth, the bowls of field flowers which are there, 
and two bowls of fruit on the dressers. 
The Bedrooms Upstairs 
Through the glass doors onto the rear bal¬ 
cony may be seen the end of a little blue- 
painted stairway which leads from outside to 
an upper bedroom, the one showing in the ex¬ 
terior view of the rear wing. This is the only- 
part of the house having an upper story. Be¬ 
neath this is another bedroom opening off the 
living room, and several steps lower. The 
open door to this room shows in the photo¬ 
graph, next to the open dresser at the left. 
The bedrooms are even more unpretentious 
than the living room; but the compact ar¬ 
rangement of built-in dressing table, clothes 
closet and tiny lavatory across the end forms 
a well balanced group, as restful and pleasing 
as theyr are convenient and simple. 
As the pictures show, there is no inside fin¬ 
ish. the structural timbers showing and the 
walls untouched. The house is made second¬ 
ary to its beautiful setting, and merely forms 
the central point around which to live a happy 
and healthy outdoor life, as nearly like camp¬ 
ing as is consistent with our modern ideas of 
comfort. 
A feature which adds to the awe-in¬ 
spiring quality of the scenery in this 
region is the frequent waterfalls, nar¬ 
row and shining as swords and plung¬ 
ing down from great heights to end in 
clouds of white spray. And one of 
the highest of these, Latourell Falls, 
is on the Talbot property^ only a short 
walk from the house. A breath-tak¬ 
ing sight which never loses its novelty 
and universal appeal as one comes 
upon it suddenly at a turning in a 
wooded path. 
