. Houses for town or country. A COLONIAL DINING-ROOM need not be more than perhaps fifteen by eighteenfeet. If that end of the room can be treated as a bay,projecting considerably beyond the facade, it may bemade a most attractive feature in the design of thedining-room. For instance, let such a bay have theform of a semi-circle or semi-polygon, with the tableat its centre. Windows can then be provided allalong the perimeter of the bay, leaving the wallspaces of the inner portion of the room for otherfurniture. This is an especially pleasant feature ina summer home, for nearly the entire exten
. Houses for town or country. A COLONIAL DINING-ROOM need not be more than perhaps fifteen by eighteenfeet. If that end of the room can be treated as a bay,projecting considerably beyond the facade, it may bemade a most attractive feature in the design of thedining-room. For instance, let such a bay have theform of a semi-circle or semi-polygon, with the tableat its centre. Windows can then be provided allalong the perimeter of the bay, leaving the wallspaces of the inner portion of the room for otherfurniture. This is an especially pleasant feature ina summer home, for nearly the entire extent of the 169 HOUSES FOR TOWN OR COUNTRY. A MODERN COLONIAL DINING-ROOM outer wall can be made to open, so that the baybecomes almost the equivalent of a veranda. It will be readily understood that the conditionsof the room are nearly the same in the case ofthe square and of the round table. The point is, ineither case, that the dining-room does not tend tobe long and narrow relatively as in the days of tablesintended to be adjusted in length to the requirementsof a large party. The table of recent years, with itssquare or round or—less frequently—polygonal top,is not an extension table at all, but is fitted to receive 170 THE DINING-ROOM
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