. Houses for town or country. AN EFFECTIVE DORMER WINDOW not more than seven feet in the eaves, rises to elevenfeet or more in the middle. Commonly this arrange-ment has the unfortunate result that the daylight isnot admitted from a sufficient height above the floor,but in this case the putting in of a capitally conceiveddormer window on the right remedies the possibledifficulty and gives us in part, at least, a sufficientlighting for whatever in the room may need to beseen by full daylight. Again on page 153 are seen the arrangementsof the same room from another point of observation. 153 HOUS
. Houses for town or country. AN EFFECTIVE DORMER WINDOW not more than seven feet in the eaves, rises to elevenfeet or more in the middle. Commonly this arrange-ment has the unfortunate result that the daylight isnot admitted from a sufficient height above the floor,but in this case the putting in of a capitally conceiveddormer window on the right remedies the possibledifficulty and gives us in part, at least, a sufficientlighting for whatever in the room may need to beseen by full daylight. Again on page 153 are seen the arrangementsof the same room from another point of observation. 153 HOUSES FOR TOWN OR COUNTRY. A DOMED CEILING This is a noble sitting-room indeed, with windowsin three walls and a great brick illustrations of the same house will be foundon pages 121 and 122, and the architect is to becongratulated on his success in designing thisdwelling. Some rooms carry farther than usual the arrange-ment of the windows flanking the chimney-piece—windows high in the wall, with bookcases belowthem and, in short, a familiar arrangement carriedout to its logical extreme. There is no doubt about 154 THE LIVING-ROOM
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