January, 1923 
63 
Hewitt 
The outside is white with 
black midlions and trim. The 
roof and shutters are jade 
green 
W HEN a decorator takes an 
old ice house perched at the 
far end of an inlet and 
turns it into a livable and desir¬ 
able home, the results are apt to 
be worth studying. 
The charming and unusual little 
house shown on these pages is the 
Connecticut home of Chamberlin 
Dodds and amusingly named by 
him *‘La Chaumiere Toquee.’’ 
Originally an old ice house and 
later a stable, it is so close to the 
water that at high tide one can 
almost bathe in the living room. 
In fact, the small balcony which 
extends out over the water in the 
manner of the French river houses 
gives one quite the impression of 
being on the deck of a boat. This 
is one of the gayest spots in the 
gay little house for it is entirely 
enclosed in glass, the large square 
lattices painted white on the out¬ 
side and jade green inside. The 
furniture which consists of iron 
pieces painted bright yellow and 
decorated peasant chairs is ex¬ 
actly right in color for the old 
Spanish rug in tones of green and 
yellow. Over all is a black and 
THE CONNECTICUT HOME 
OF CHAMBERLIN DODDS 
Yellow walls, a jade green 
trim and checked gingham 
curtains make the gayest of 
living rooms 
yellow striped awning of painted 
tin. 
Again the brightest of colors 
combine to make the living room 
wonderfully gay. The wide boards 
of the walls are painted lemon 
yellow with a jade green trim. In 
keeping with the simplicity of it 
all ruffled yellow checked gingham 
curtains outline the doorway and 
frame the windows, hanging from 
a brightly painted wood valance. 
Here the furniture is also mostly 
of the peasant type, painted 
orange, green and yellow. Striped 
slip covers in green and cream and 
old color prints on the walls carry 
out these tones while an occasional 
new note of lavender is introduced 
in the Italian and Spanish pottery. 
Up a very short and tempestuous 
stairway are two bedrooms, one 
master's and one guest room. The 
former with whitewashed walls 
and furniture built in tightly after 
the manner of the old Normandy 
and Brittany cottages has old 
Portuguese cotton prints at the win¬ 
dows and on the beds. These are 
quite in keeping with the vivid 
color of the rest of the cottage. 
