House & Garden 
creasingly hot summers, is becoming all the 
more important a feature of our houses, where 
many hours of day and night are spent, and 
where the functions of several interior rooms 
are often united. 
The panelled vestibule, with shelves of 
palms and flowers, leads on the left to the re¬ 
ception-room, and on the right to The Library, 
a delightful living-room with walls of old red, 
a fire-place at one end and hays upon either 
side. On the second floor liberal dormers, 
breaking the expanse of roof, admit the sum¬ 
mer breezes to five large bedrooms, while 
shuttered single windows on the north give 
the protection needed in winter. Three ser¬ 
vants’ rooms in the attic are lighted by a 
larger dormer on the east or rear. A grade 
declining toward this side of the house admits 
of an ample basement. There is no attempt 
at formal gardening at Sonnenschein. Its 
grounds are dotted with shrubbery in a way 
as free and natural as its own surroundings, 
where the straight lines of a “ lot” are not to 
be found, and where the whole environment 
can but add to the title of the architect’s design 
and his home. 
THE LIBRARY 
SONNENSCHEIN 
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