HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 
in my mind. Then 
my clients were sent 
for. The result was 
more gratifying than 
I had dared to hope. 
They were astonished, 
enthusiastic. From 
every side they 
viewed it. Nothing 
escaped their notice, 
from the tiny chim¬ 
ney pots to the 
benches in the formal 
garden. Then the 
woman turned to me 
and held out her 
h a n d. . “O h , it’s 
charming,” she' said, 
‘‘though I had no idea 
it was that kind of a 
house. Why, it’s just 
what I want.” 
Needless to say, the 
house was built ac¬ 
cording to the original 
idea, to the satisfac¬ 
tion of all concerned, 
and stands today a 
testimonial, to the use 
'of the model in archi¬ 
tecture. 
The models here il¬ 
lustrated are of 
■houses designed by 
the writer, which have 
been built. They were 
•worked up from scale 
drawings, one-fourth 
inch to the foot, so that windows, doors, porch posts, chimneys, 
pergolas, etc.,' are in perfect proportion. As one walks from 
front to rear, from right to left, the question of “How will it 
look?” is completely answered. There stands the house with its 
red tile roofs, brown half-timber panels, and walls of light buff- 
representing plaster against a background of green lawn and 
trees, complete in every detail, from transparent windows to the 
smallest bit of shrubbery. , . 
While the models il¬ 
lustrated show the 
work carefully car¬ 
ried out, they do not 
speak of the failures 
encountered in getting 
these results. The 
first experiments were 
made by using white 
pine wood as a base 
for these models, 
from which sides of 
cardboard were built 
up. The windows 
were of paper, while 
the roofs were 
worked out of colored 
cardboard. This ex¬ 
periment proved that 
wood of any kind was 
not serviceable, as it 
warped and cracked 
according to exposure 
to heat and cold. 
Wood was abandoned, 
and the base was then 
built of layers of 
cardboard, glued to¬ 
gether and put under 
a press. This made 
an excellent base for 
the building, and was 
not affected b y 
changes in tempera¬ 
ture. Paper for win¬ 
dows was also aban¬ 
doned ; in its place 
was substituted cellu¬ 
loid, upon which white drawing ink outlined the muntins form¬ 
ing the divisions in the windows. Instead of cardboard in a 
sheet, laid off with lines to indicate the roof material, the roof 
was made of strips cut out of thin cardboard, colored to represent 
either shingles, slate or tile. These were laid overlapping each 
other, so as to show the proper exposure to the weather. The 
perpendicular lines, however, were indicated in ink. This effect 
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After you have set about making a model for the essentials, it will be surprising if you 
do not find yourself simulating every tiny detail 
In order to prevent warping, it is better to use a base made up of cardboard layers 
glued together, rather than a single board 
This model was made to show the exact effect of a proposed alteration to an existing building. The change is in the rear bay, which 
was rebuilt to give a small outdoor sleeping-porch 
