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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
169 
The living-room walls are of battened boards, the second floor joists remaining unceiled 
all of Oregon pine, stained a russet brown 
rafters. The living-room is finished 
with battened board walls and raft¬ 
ered ceiling, all of Oregon pine stained 
a russet brown. The chimney, ten feet 
broad at the base and six feet thick, is 
a massive feature done in the rugged 
style which is the main characteristic 
of chalet construction. An idea of its 
massive strength may be obtained 
from the illustration of the south 
elevation. In the long, low living- 
room (26 x 18 ft.) it is a dominant fea¬ 
ture, where cord wood logs ablaze 
furnish cheer and decoration in the 
cool winter evenings. The hearth, of 
the rudest masonry of weathered stones, 
and the great iron hooks mounted in 
the masonry of the chimney breast 
furnish support for a tall iron trident 
to handle the logs with and a huge 
bellows of carved black wood. 
The room is lighted at night by can¬ 
dles in the oddest of rustic sconces and 
candelabra. A small log is suspended 
from the rafters by iron chains and 
fitted with tall wax candles. The light 
of these and the firelight on the 
velvety brown wooden walls at night 
is indescribably beautiful. 
1 he primitive quality of the room is further emphasized by the 
wooden furniture, much of it hand-made and hand-carved, and 
by the “whittled” boards of the balustrade leading to the second 
story. 
Draperies of a pale brown monk’s cloth are stenciled with 
conventionalized pine trees in green. They are folded primly 
over heavy wooden poles set in wooden brackets, simply out¬ 
lining casement windows, through every one of which are the 
most enchanting views of distant mountains, near foothills and 
luxuriant valley. French windows open on the long east porch 
(40 x 12 ft.) through which, on fine days, the dining-table is 
pushed and dinner eaten al jresco. What a sauce" for the 
appetite is the fresh aromatic air; what a feast to the eye, the 
dream mountains on the horizon; what melody for the ear, the 
meadow lark’s trill or the mountain cascade’s cadence as it 
tumbles through the canyon! 
On the first floor, in addition to the combined living-room and 
dining-room, which are shown in the photographs, there is the 
kitchen, a pantry between that and the dining-room, a screened 
porch—considered a necessary part of the kitchen in Califor¬ 
nia—and a bedroom and bath. On the second floor there are 
four bedrooms, a toilet room and a sleeping-porch. All of the 
bedrooms are well equipped with closet space. 
At one end of the veranda is a picturesque well, with old 
oaken bucket and stone curb. Bamboos and papyrus have been 
planted at one side, and ivy, destined to cover the timbers that 
support the bucket. The Deodar cedar, the Irish juniper, the 
Japan cryptomeria, the Mediterranean heather and the Colorado 
blue spruce form an interesting setting of conifers for the well 
plat. 
An idea of the luxuriance of the live-oak as a winter tree in 
California may be obtained from the first photograph. The 
owner has built a platform among the boughs, twelve feet in 
diameter, where afternoon tea is served—a pleasant feature of 
mid-winter life in California and one that the eastern sojourner 
likes to enlarge upon in writing back to ice-bound and snow- 
blockaded friends. 
The little chalet has been christened “ Felsengarten, ” because 
of the rocky setting to its flower gardens, which unfortunately 
are so placed that they cannot be adequately photographed. 
The draperies in the living-room and dining-room are of pale brown 
monks’ cloth, stenciled with pine trees in green 
The effective woodwork that takes the place of the balustrade is 
made of pine boards with a sawed-out pattern 
