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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
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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The plate-rack in the living-room. The stairway leads to the studio-room, just above it and weights to raise the sash, these were built to slide back into the wall at either side. When open, these windows frame in bits of landscape that are veritable pic- tures in themselves. The small windows in the gable ends of the house were designed for the pur- pose of ventilation during the hot months of the year. The walls of the studio-room were covered with golden brown grasscloth as far as the rafters overhead, which rafters were left unfinished like the gable ends, except for a coat of gray stain added to subdue the disagree- able yellow of new pine. The floor also received a tone of gray stain before it was finished in hard varnish, and the shelves and room below, the flue being carried up in one side of the big studio fittings were all made gray as far as possible, chimney. This small open fire adds its cheer during the The possibility of monotony in such a color scheme was cool days of spring and autumn, besides being of great prac- avoided by the selection of rugs of skins and rag carpet on tical utility on the culinary side of things, which is some- the floor and the numerous copper and Japanese pottery thing even the most impractical artist does not always over- jars lending definite contrasting color notes, while the various look! bits of bric-a-brac and objets d'art, dear to the artist soul, The studio-room of "Laurel Lodge" was found to be still found ample space for the display of their individual charms quite large enough for any ordinary work, even though a against the plain walls and gray stone chimney, bedroom was later partitioned off in the corner near the The door opening in the central space below the north winding, well-lighted stairway descending to the lower floor, dormer window was made in two sections like the old- The corner opposite this bedroom contained a somewhat fashioned Dutch door, and it was arranged to furnish a larger space, about which movable screen partitions were window space when its upper section is thrown back, placed, together with curtains which may be drawn aside From this studio-room, one may look out toward the when the added space is desired in the studio, or closed for mountains. The "Minister's Face" of bare rock showing a little workroom, or even utilized as a bedroom when above the trees on the right, just over the old stone quarry, demanded by an occasional guest. where workmen still obtain stone for local building and The problem of lighting the studio from the big dormer road-making purposes. Below this old quarry a road crosses window received particular attention on the part of the the wide stretches of pasture land, leading the eye gently artist when drawing the plans. A good, steady, north light, down from the steep wilderness above. Not a house is high enough to light the whole studio, with no bothersome visible in this direction to break the perfect picture of prim- cross lights from other windows, was, of course, a studio itive nature, where the Wild Fern, the Mountain Laurel, necessity to the owner. The smaller windows were placed and the Azalea bloom among the rocks, low in the wall, the vistas from which disclosed -a never The balcony added to the western end of "Laurel Lodge" tiresome panorama of Nature's ever-changing delights, opens from the studio, and serves as an outdoor sleeping- These window openings were made wide rather than room. Doors lead from this into the studio, swinging back, high, with the old-time sliding sash of our Dutch forbears. This balcony has a pent roof and is enclosed high enough Instead of the regulation upright window having pulleys to conceal the couch bench. The window-sash, the doors
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lining living-room Lower fireplace across the living-room corner

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