HOUSE AND GARDEN 
December, iqio 
359 
Originally the second story plan was much 
like the first — with four bedrooms opening 
off the central hall. Carrying the rear 
slope of the roof over the new porch gave 
space for two new rooms, and a bath, 
with another bathroom taken off the waste 
space in the front hall 
The dining-room was formerly the kitchen, and the old “spaceway” used for storing home¬ 
made soap, cheese and candles is now used as a convenient alcove for a serving-table 
door opens on a new veranda, forty-two feet long and fifteen 
feet wide. This porch, extending the entire width of the house, 
•commands a view of orchard and river and is one of the most 
attractive features of our home. The living-room opens on the 
veranda by means of a French window, which in summertime is 
used as a door. 
We did not wish to mar the attractiveness of our porch by 
having the kitchen open on it, so converted the old kitchen into 
a delightful dining-room. In the east end of this room the old 
spaceway closet forms an alcove, divided from the main apart¬ 
ment by an archway. High landscape windows look from the 
alcove east. An ample fireplace radiates cheer from the south 
side of the room. On the north two French windows open on the 
veranda. 
The old dining-room at the front of the house has been fitted 
up as a modern convenient kitchen, and the original dining-room 
porch now forms pantry, scullery and outside entrance to the 
kitchen, screened from the street by lattice. 
The four chambers upstairs were not sufficient for the needs 
of the family, so two new ones were added by building a dormer 
over the north porch. We provided a bathroom at each end of 
the upper hall, and servants’ rooms in the attic. 
Besides these changes there were a few more practical im¬ 
provements to be made: the house was freshly lathed and plas¬ 
tered, the old window sash replaced by new, having one large 
pane below and 
smaller panes in the 
upper sash. Oak 
floors were laid in 
living - room, hall 
and dining - room. 
Throughout the 
house the woodwork 
was finished in white 
enamel. The house 
is lighted by elec¬ 
tricity, and soft wa¬ 
ter is supplied by 
an electric p u m p 
from a drilled well. 
In furnishing our 
our new home we 
In the front hall the old straight-away 
staircase remains unchanged in its 
charming simplicity 
have used, as far as possible, old-fashioned furniture, which is 
in keeping with the character of the house. Many of the pieces 
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The rear of the house, commanding a fine view of the orchard and 
river, shows most of the exterior alterations that were made to 
secure needed space indoors 
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The long porch extending across the whole rear of the house is the 
most radical addition that was permitted. Its glazed sash are 
removed in the spring 
