House & Garden 
dormer windows 
because the 
slender roofing 
timbers must be 
kept up to their 
work by elabo¬ 
rate bracing, 
which makes 
each long rafter 
form, with the 
correspondi n g 
c e i 1 i n g - j o i s t 
below, what 
is pratically a 
lattice girder, 
thus occupying 
a space which 
might otherwise 
be available. 
Upon this 
seemingly 
flimsy, but really 
sturdy, structure 
are laid wide 
slabs of coral 
stone in courses 
a foot or more 
to the weather. 
H owe ver, as an old house at paget 
they are but an 
inch thick and comparatively light, the burden 
is less than it seems. Doors, mouldings, 
window sash, 
the bright green 
blinds with 
which every win¬ 
dow is shaded, 
all come from the 
great factories 
in the U n i t e d 
States, ready- 
in a d e. T h e 
poverty of 
design in these 
important 
details is one of 
the most serious 
draw-backs of 
these singular 
houses; but the 
generous space, 
the wide open- 
in gs, the big 
porches, the 
outdoor life 
which goes on 
nearly all the 
year round, soon 
reconcile one to 
that sameness of 
Bermuda detail, which 
doubtless 
permits the dignity of general outline the 
greater scope, as the houses are seen behind 
THE POET Moore’s HOUSE 
BERMUDA 
