HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, i 
911 
the only “headers” or endwise 
bricks visible being at frequent 
intervals where their use is 
made obligatory by the local 
building laws to tie the face- 
wall to the backing. Each 
course breaks joints vertically 
with the courses immediately 
above and below. Running 
bond is perhaps the simplest 
and certainly the least inter¬ 
esting and artistic way of lay¬ 
ing brick and has little to com¬ 
mend it except considerations 
of economy when a misguided 
desire for smug precision out¬ 
wardly prompts the use of a 
pressed brick facing. Of 
course running bond gets the 
greatest superficial display out 
of a given number of expensive, 
facing bricks. One of the illus¬ 
trations that give an example of 
this method is interesting, apart 
from the attractive simplicity 
of the house, as showing a rational and tasteful use of second¬ 
hand brick. It is interesting also to note the simple and effective 
method of ornamentation adopted in countersinking a course 
above the windows of the first floor. The slightly projecting 
foundation capped by a drip 
course is worth attention too. 
The method of laying four 
other bonds is shown in an ac¬ 
companying illustration. The 
Flemish bond, in which every 
course consists of alternate 
headers and stretchers is, after 
the running bond, the one we 
most commonly meet with, hav¬ 
ing been generally used in our 
brick building of Colonial date, 
in which the black header and 
red stretcher effect is so often 
noticeable. Flemish bond is 
constructionally honest, artistic 
and satisfying, and its almost 
universal employment in mod¬ 
ern building of Colonial style, 
cannot be too strongly com¬ 
mended. The accompanying 
picture of a portion of the wall 
of the “Gloria Dei” or Old 
Swedes Church, Philadelphia, 
shows an excellent example of 
Flemish bond where the headers are brought into rather unusual 
prominence by the bluish-black glaze with which most of them are 
encrusted. This vitreous glaze, it has been suggested by some ex- 
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Double-stretcher Flemish bond as used in an interesting example of 
good brickwork—the University of Pennsylvania Museum 
Designing 
the Living-room by Itself 
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE ARCHITECTURAL TREATMENT, THE CONSISTENT 
FURNISHING AND THE BEST WORKING ARRANGEMENT OF THE USUAL SIZE ROOM 
A side elevation of the room, showing the fireplace and the French doors to the piazza. Above the white 
wainscoting, the background paper is a putty color, the panels being filled with a striped and foliated fabric, 
held in place by a flat molding strip 
A FTER the method of modern plan- by A. Ray 
ning, the living-room is treated as the illustrations 
principal room in the house. I do not 
mean to say that this room should be overdone, or given undue 
prominence to the exclusion of the other rooms, but it is essen¬ 
tial that this room be treated differently from the old-fashioned 
way we formerly treated our living-rooms, then generally a front 
and back parlor. These two rooms have now been superseded by 
one large room, as our mode of living and entertaining makes it 
more desirable than the two small, stuffy rooms, then used only 
occasionally. Today we plan to give pleasure and comfort to 
the family, rather than the occasional guest. 
There are probably two or three dozen ways that the living- 
ond Ellis room can be planned and decorated and 
>y the Author at ^ ie same time be comfortable and at¬ 
tractive. I have chosen to illustrate this with 
a type of living-room that adapts itself to almost any house and of¬ 
fers the greatest amount of free space when the room is properly 
furnished. The room is 15 ft. x 29 ft. 6 in., with a ceiling height 
of 9 ft., these dimensions giving a well-proportioned room. The 
fireplace is in the center of the west wall, flanked on each side by 
two French doors which open out on a piazza. At each end of the 
room are two windows, balancing one another. On the east wall a 
wide opening with French doors permits access to the main hall. 
The most prominent feature of the room is the fireplace, which is 
accentuated and made a natural center. This is an important con- 
