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Identifier: americanhomesgar41907newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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rked: I havescarcely a piece that properly belongshere. We shall have to live up tothis house by slow degrees. Butbetter this way than to have a repre-sentative collection of historicalfurniture in a poor architectural set-ting. That is an almost hopelessanachronism because it is practicallyimpossible to do anything with thehouse, especially if the furniture beof the vintage of say 1875. Everycultivated person, nowadays, is afurniture collector who is constantlyweeding out and improving his stock.Another decided advantage thearchitect had was permission to usethe small sized lights in the loweras well as the upper half of thewindows. Not many of an archi-tects patrons will readily agree tothis, and he often had much con-cern how to gain the atmosphere sonecessary to ones happiness with the big sheets of plate glassclients have demanded. Indeed the sash bars do not obscurethe vision as is always argued, more than ones vision isobscured by the projection of the nose. One may look cross-
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An Artistic Inglenook in the Dining-room Hasa Paneled Seat and a Colonial Mantel A Stairway Within the Stately Doorway Isthe Feature of the Paneled Hall A Quaint China Cabinet Is Built in the Cornerof the Dining-room it, and that is a development of our own day, but with sev-eral advantages, the two piers being united by an arch in theattic. We do not expect every one, however, to note all the his-torical development which has been faithfully carried out inthis Highland Mills cottage. The orthodox details, oneafter another, will impress themselves upon the much in-terested reader, such as the overhanging upon which he willone day discover the molded chamfers which, to give themill that did the work due credit, are beautifully executed,likewise the molded drops, all very satisfactory. The ex-periments of the interior were not less successful, but are eyed, and encounter the objection, but one does not care tolook cross-eyed habitually. It all depends upon the point offocus chosen. Ther

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