. Your home and its decoration; a series of practical suggestions for the painting, decorating, and furnishing of the home, comp. .. . s is frequently the case, have itsfront door give upon a small porch leading directly to the street,this opens wide into the central hall, and permits an unobstructedview of the beautiful old-fashioned garden through the almostequally wide and impressive rear door. The color treatment for the exterior of Colonial houses shouldnot depart from the style established in the excellent examples whichremain with us to-day. The suburban or country house of Colonial des
. Your home and its decoration; a series of practical suggestions for the painting, decorating, and furnishing of the home, comp. .. . s is frequently the case, have itsfront door give upon a small porch leading directly to the street,this opens wide into the central hall, and permits an unobstructedview of the beautiful old-fashioned garden through the almostequally wide and impressive rear door. The color treatment for the exterior of Colonial houses shouldnot depart from the style established in the excellent examples whichremain with us to-day. The suburban or country house of Colonial design should show the body of the housepainted in true Colonialyellow (Plate LXXVI 11), withcolumns and trim of ivorywhite, and it should be remem-bered that Colonial yellow hasno shade of green. It is creamdeepened to yellow. Or thecolumns and body of the houseshould be treated with white,the shutters and roof showingexactly the right shade ofgreen. This matter of theright shade of color is ofextreme importance to thefinished success of the rich, dark green, that hasno yellow in it nor too muchof black, is the appropriate. Plate LXXVII. Fine Old Colonial Mansion ofNew England [ 78 ] COLONIAL HOUSES shade for the bHnds. The stain for the roof may be shghtly Hghterin tone. Full specification in regard to the selection of the materials forthe exterior treat-ment of such houseswill be found inChapter XV. Manyof the best examplesof Southern Colo-nial houses are ofred brick with thecreamy-white trim,as shown in theThomas JeflFersonhouse, though manyof the old Colonialmansions in Virginiaand Kentucky,which are built ofbrick, are painted inwhite or the softyellow shade abovereferred to. Alsothey are frequentlyleft in the naturalcolor of the brick,laid in carefullysmoothed whitemortar, many havingfor the trim white marble or stone, as in the Byrde house, whichis one of the best examples of the Virginia Colonial. The shuttersin both cases are painted green. The New England type of
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