H ouse and Garden 
The adjoining bedroom, or guests’ room, is 
furnished in old Colonial mahogany. A bureau with 
swell front and legs supporting heavy columns 
occupies the center of one wall, while over it hangs 
a curiously carved mirror with painted landscape 
in the upper panel. A large bed placed opposite, 
wash-stand with bowl and pitcher of mulberry, a 
drop leaf sewing-table, chairs and quaint rocker com¬ 
plete the room. 
The studio on the right, with its ample proportions 
and height, in so seemingly a small house, never 
ceases to impress the visitor. 
Twenty-eight feet in length, with a width of six¬ 
teen feet, the gambrel roof sheathed on the inside 
with matched and beaded North Carolina pine, 
forms the end walls. These rise to a height of four¬ 
teen feet where the ceiling is sheathed in the same 
manner, allowing for an air-well or storeroom above. 
This space ventilated by a latticed window opens into 
the third floor hallway and casement windows set 
high in the studio wall also open on this landing. 
Four large swinging windows six feet in height, 
jo ned together, admit the north light, which can be 
regulated by opaque shades that raise from the sills. 
On the inner wall is an enormous fireplace made of 
rough brick, with a square four foot opening, extend¬ 
ing into the room and capped with a heavy oaken 
mantel, six feet above the floor. This fireplace rests 
on doubled floor timbers and in addition is supported 
by a turned brick arch between the floors. To carry 
out the Colonial scheme there is suspended from a 
wrought iron crane, in one side of the opening, an 
antique iron kettle. The andirons also of iron, made 
from a simple pattern by the local blacksmith, are 
massive enough to permit of the use of heavy logs. 
The wide plastered chimney breast above the man¬ 
tel gradually tapers back to the chimney itself, which 
is exposed several feet below the ceiling. Built out 
with the breast, a little higher than the mantel, is an 
enclosed space with wooden cap and plastered wall; 
the upper surface forming a sort of gallery used as 
a receptacle for studio traps, but its real purpose 
is to enclose a back stairway, the 
door of which opens into the 
hall. In this way was solved 
a problem quite as difficult 
as the planning of the stu¬ 
dio itself . This gal¬ 
lery is continued 
im 
ISKi 
m 
,-*'•3 
A. 
across the rear wall and supported by a single square 
post not only gives room underneath for a full size 
divan, but breaks an otherwise bare wall space. 
Old spinning and flax wheels placed hereout of the 
way show to advantage. 
It was an easy matter to stain the cypress trim of 
windows, doors and closets a light weathered brown 
made from coal tar and turpentine, but the extensive 
sheathing of the ceiling and two sides required 
heavy ladders and staging. The day the painters 
arrived at this point in their contract in which they 
had already met with a number of surprises in the 
combining of pigments to produce wall tints some¬ 
what softer and more subtle than the conventional 
color cards, the owner was called out of town. Re¬ 
turning in the early afternoon, expecting to find the 
work well under way, he was astonished to find the 
men, bedaubed with tar, scratching their heads in 
sore perplexity and actually on a strike. They had 
refused to go on with the work when they found that 
pine would not take an even stain. The result 
which they had obtained and which had so discour¬ 
aged them, was the very effect desired, that of a 
loft with timbers stained by weather and age. 
It is not necessary to say that all studios are much 
alike in their furnishings of rugs, bric-a-brac, arms, 
weapons, and hangings. The main point is to have 
plenty of room, good light, and to be undisturbed. 
This room possesses these if nothing more. 
To give an idea of the capacity of the studio, one 
evening when some forty persons assembled in the 
room, a belated guest upon entering the deserted 
living-room, apologized profusely for being the first 
arrival, and looked his astonishment when it was 
explained to him that the other members of the 
party would be found on the next floor. 
From the hall an open stair with plain rail and pin 
balusters leads to the third floor, on which are the 
servants’ rooms and storerooms. 
The house is heated by steam. In the larger rooms 
two radiators of different sizes allow for a greater or 
less degree of heat. The studio heats as easily as the 
smallest room in the house. Three 
fireplaces in the same chimney 
naturally require that it be 
large enough for several 
flues, and that the base 
be broad and 
well supported. 
~/7 \\l, . „ 
\ _ 
mm 
i 
© 
w 
1 
146 
