. 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 fit
. 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. STATELINESS IX THE DINING-ROOM tops of different sizes; exactly as in a restaurant anumber of circular table-tops are kept in stock, andaccording to the size of the dinner party the largest(accommodating twenty persons perhaps) will beput in place—or a smaller one accommodating four-teen, twelve or ten. Thus in the illustration shownon page i68 the room, being nearly square in plan,is so large relatively to the ordinary size of thedining-table that it would accommodate a round-topor square-top table large enough for sixteen guests,and this without causing a derangement of the furni- 171 HOUSES FOR TOWN OR COUNTRY ture in the room. Pages i6i and 162 illustratesimilar large dining-rooms. On page 169 is shown a room in Zanesville, Ohio,which is frankly designed in a modification of theGeorgian (Old Colonial) style, and is a really excel-lent composition. The decoration includes the veryobvious protection for the walls—the dado which inthis case is carried up to a height of about seve
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