44 
House & Carden 
PORCHES INSIDE THE HOUSE AND OUT 
No Longer Is the Porch Grafted on the House; It is an Integral Part of the 
Design and Useful Throughout the Year 
ELLERY JOHNSTON 
O NE of the indications of 
increasing good architecture 
in America can be found 
in the handling of the porch. 
Whereas it once was a detail 
literally “stuck” onto a house, it 
is now built as an integral part 
of the house structure, made per¬ 
manently useful by being enclosed 
with glass for winter. The 
Georgian and Colonial types of 
houses have been mightily im¬ 
proved by this porch treatment. 
In Italian houses the loggia takes 
the place of the porch. In many 
types of houses based on English 
designs the terrace plays the role 
of the porch. Even in Southern 
The color scheme for the 
porch of Mrs. George Q. 
Palmer’s house at Port- 
chester, N. Y., was taken 
from the old tile placed 
over the fountain — 
orange, brown and blue 
states, where the porch is a neces¬ 
sity for comfortable living, there 
are indications that the porch is 
being built as a part of the house 
itself. 
But whether a porch, a terrace 
or a loggia, that factor of transi¬ 
tion between the garden and the 
house is desirable. One should 
not have to come into the house 
abruptly; the progress should be 
gradual, from the full sun of the 
garden, to the half-shade of the 
porch, thence on to the cool depths 
of the house itself. With a loggia 
and a porch this is possible; it is 
made possible on the terrace by 
the use of awnings. 
Brown is found in the 
fibre rug, the table is 
black marble with a 
wrought iron base, the 
curtains green, the chintz 
orange. Mrs. A. Van R. 
Barnewall, decorator 
