The House 
A SEASHORE HOME 
Being an Old House, Remodeled, on the Massachusetts Coast 
By Edmund Q. Sylvester 
Y OU, who are so fortunate as to have sum¬ 
mer homes at the seashore, where the cold 
east winds are tempered in winter and the hot 
land breezes in summer are cooled by the 
breeze from the ocean, which perhaps lies 
just at the foot of the lawn, do you realize 
how beautiful these homes might be made 
by utilizing these provisions of Nature and 
planting about the grounds a few seeds or 
perennials each year? If wise selections are 
made, they will grow very strong and spread 
so profusely that the change in a few years 
will be astonishing. 
The old house shown in the illustrations 
was, some thirty years ago, a plain, 
square building, 
with the kitchen 
on the water side 
probably, and un¬ 
doubtedly neither 
a tree nor shrub 
anywhere near it. 
And what a change 
it presents today! 
Each year, in all 
this time, some¬ 
thing has been 
done. Completely 
remodeled and 
changed inside it 
has been, until the 
service portion of the house is now on 
the street side and the large dining-rooms 
and living-room have an extensive view over 
a well-kept lawn and the sea in the distance 
dotted with sails. All the windows opening 
upon the piazza are long casement sashes; and 
in the living-room a small bay, thrown out 
at an angle, catches a vista between the trees; 
and yet the practical and comfortable things 
have not been forgotten. The bedrooms 
are large and roomy with a bathroom on each 
Door, and in one room a balcony affords a 
glorious view and is a delightful place for a 
sun parlor. Yet, perhaps best of all, are the 
window boxes which fill nearly every opening 
with bloom, bright¬ 
ening and cheering 
when everything 
else is dull and 
gray. 
If you have 
never had flower 
boxes outside vour 
j 
bedroom windows, 
try one. Fill it 
full of plants 
which grow easily 
and will blossom 
most freely, and 
then, if you are 
fortunate enough 
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