January, 1918 
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Gillies 
THE WINTER PORCH 
A Seasonal Phase of an All-year Room 
Color Schemes and Furniture Suggestions 
MARY WORTHINGTON 
A FEW years ago the porch was deserted 
all the winter through, a barren place 
' for the dried leaves to rustle about in. 
Today it has come into its own. We eat, 
sleep, play and almost live entirely in our 
porches. I say “in” instead of “on,” because 
they are enclosed by glass doors and windows 
and serve as an extra room. 
One particularly good use for the enclosed 
porch, one to which it much more frequently 
could be turned, is for a breakfast room. 
What an antidote to the morning grouch it is 
to breakfast in a sunny, gay porch with bright 
chintz shades and soft painted furniture and 
with a tiny wood blaze on the hearth to take 
away that frosty feeling in the air. Only a 
little porch is required to accommodate break¬ 
fast room furniture. If the size or shape does 
not permit of the regulation table and chairs, 
then use an oblong table and benches for the 
long sides and two comfortable Windsor chairs 
at either end, so that the pater and mater 
familias will not heap upon us the accusation 
of being either fresh air fiends or over-artistic 
at the price of comfort. 
If we are an adept at growing plants, then 
have the carpenter build up simple lattices 
around the windows. A handy man can buy 
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The component parts of 
a breakfast room are 
here: lattice wall back¬ 
ground, tile floors, flow¬ 
ers, large windows and 
sunlight in abundance. 
The room is in the resi¬ 
dence of Earle P. Charl¬ 
ton, Esq., Westport Har¬ 
bor, R. I. F. C. Farley 
and P. M. Hooper, archi¬ 
tects 
Wicker, reed, willow, 
painted furniture and 
wrought iron are the 
best choices for the 
winter porch living room. 
Here reed has been used. 
Casement cloth curtains 
filter the strong sunlight. 
Plants add interest. From 
the h o m e of Gardner 
Steel,Esq., Pittsburgh,Pa. 
Louis Stevens, architect 
