House and Garden 
AN ATTRACTIVE COTTAGE STAIRWAY 
it may be merely a 
wide passageway 
through the house, in 
either case it is a most 
important feature of a 
Colonial house and 
must in all instances 
show a fine stairway. 
The characteristic 
points which mark a 
Colonial stairway are: 
the broad and easy 
“treads,” these may he 
painted white and car¬ 
peted or of polished 
mahogany—the ma¬ 
hogany hand-rail with 
white spindles; the 
“goose-neck” turn of 
the baluster; the grace¬ 
ful spiral at the foot, 
replacing the heavy 
“newel” of the Eng¬ 
lish stairway. In many 
of the oldest and 
handsomest houses in America spiral stairways are 
to be seen and for airy grace and perfection of finish 
it would be hard to find an analogy in the building 
of our modern houses. 
1 he Colonial house which is properly furnished 
and decorated must in resultant effect be cool, clean 
and airy. In tone and quality it may be exquisitely 
dainty and if so desired, enormously expensive, but 
it must he an expensive simplicity. How very 
costly such simplicity may be is known only to the 
collector of antique mahogany. 
Therefore we may safely say that the Colonial 
house while purely a product of American taste 
should not be classed as the characteristic style 
which predominates, and this is simply because it 
does not easily fall within the reach of all classes. 
There is, however, a 
style of building and 
furnishing which fits 
snugly into the small 
purse and yet permits 
a scope artistically, and 
this is the “bungalow,'’ 
so called, which has 
recently appeared 
amongst us. That it 
has come to stay is 
proved by the fact that 
where ten years ago one 
bungalow stood alone 
an object of curiosity 
and a subject of jests 
and much derision, 
hundreds, nay thou¬ 
sands of houses which 
are slight variations on 
this original theme, are 
now to be seen. 
This bungalow was 
built in Pasadena, Cal¬ 
ifornia, and cost eight 
A COTTAGE DINING-ROOM WITH SOME COLONIAL FURNITURE 
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