16 
House & Garden 
The facing and panel 
over the dining room 
fireplace are old blue 
and white Dutch 
tiles. All of the 
woodwork, including 
the floors, is stained 
a quiet shade of 
brown and the walls 
are left in the nat¬ 
ural rough plaster. 
The ceiling is cy¬ 
press with wide 
matched boards in 
emulation of a Flem¬ 
ish interior 
ROOMS IN THE 
RESIDENCE OF 
JOHN FORBES 
PERKINS, Esq., 
MILTON, MASS. 
Heavy adzed cypress 
timbers support the 
living room ceiling. 
Floors, doors and 
finish around the 
fireplace are oak. 
Caen stone has been 
used for facing the 
fireplace. The archi¬ 
tectural background 
of the room con¬ 
trasts well with the 
bright colored tapes¬ 
tries, chair cushions 
and the deeper tones 
of the old furniture 
