. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. . r side ofthe hall we find a passage leading to a bedroom, ,having also a projecting fire-place and a small closet. A dooropens from this paesage into a store-room. At the rear of thebuilding another veranda is found, with a flight of steps as atthe the stairs, we enter a bedroom on the landing, YlLLAS. 127 , and passing forward we find a bath to the right,7xT, and still farther we find two bedroom doors, one of whichleads to an irregular-shaped room, being over the
. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. . r side ofthe hall we find a passage leading to a bedroom, ,having also a projecting fire-place and a small closet. A dooropens from this paesage into a store-room. At the rear of thebuilding another veranda is found, with a flight of steps as atthe the stairs, we enter a bedroom on the landing, YlLLAS. 127 , and passing forward we find a bath to the right,7xT, and still farther we find two bedroom doors, one of whichleads to an irregular-shaped room, being over the store-roomand passage on the principal floor; the other, over the draw-ing-room, is the same size as that already described, ;each of these bedrooms is provided with a closet. If a greaternumber of rooms be desired, these principal bedrooms can bedivided in the manner shown by the dotted lines. It is sup-posed the servants bedrooms will be in the basement. Oppo-site the bath-room door we find a door leading to an octangu-lar picture gallery, , from which, on the oppositeFig. Seooitd Floor Plan. side, a door opens into a symmetrical room in the form of anirregular hexagon, The extreme length of this room is broad. These two rooms may be made to form, not onlythe most attractive feature of the house, but if skillfully treatedwill make a combination the like of which is rarely met within a house of such limited extent as this. The octagon roommay have a groined paneled ceiling, the ribs springing fromGothic columns attached to the walls at the angles of the room,and terminating against the angles of an octangular lantern i28 The House. liglit surrounded by a richly ornamented cornice; the lanternto be filled in with stained glass, and to project a considerableheight above the roof. The principal point of attraction in theadjoining room will be the noble Gothic window, which, ifmanaged as a Gothic window may be managed, with mul-lions, cusps, foils,
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