. Houses for town or country. rcase from hall bya screen or by something more than a screen, namely,by a solid wall with an opening more or less door itself may not be hung in this opening—it may be better dressed by hanging curtains, orportieres; but at all events the two apartments arebetter when entirelv distinct. The term staircase, I mav mention in passing, isused in the sense given in the Dictionary of Archi-tecture and Building as meaning the structurecontaining a stair, the stair together with its en-closing wall. In this sense it is here maintainedthat staircase and hall shou
. Houses for town or country. rcase from hall bya screen or by something more than a screen, namely,by a solid wall with an opening more or less door itself may not be hung in this opening—it may be better dressed by hanging curtains, orportieres; but at all events the two apartments arebetter when entirelv distinct. The term staircase, I mav mention in passing, isused in the sense given in the Dictionary of Archi-tecture and Building as meaning the structurecontaining a stair, the stair together with its en-closing wall. In this sense it is here maintainedthat staircase and hall should be separated as far asthe size of the house and the disposition of the plan ^will admit. Thus in the illustration shown on page 151 there isindeed no wav visible of closing the opening betweenthe two apartments, but otherwise the plan is anideallv good one. The hall has windows, it accom-modates bookshelves, a great fixed sofa, tables andchairs; and it forms an altogether agreeable sitting- 129 HOUSES FOR TOWN OR COUNTRY. A HALL AND LIVIXG-ROOM room from which by two steps we mount to a secondsmaller sitting-room, a kind of recess with a standand a chair and a picture which receives sufficientdaylight, and from which you go up to the firstlanding of the stair, upon which again is a fixed seatand into which opens a window in the rear cannot be a pleasanter form of division thanthis. Again, on page 131, there is shown a hall withheavy oak table and bookshelves; there are stepswhich take you up to a dining-room with a recessedwindow, and by another entrance you reach the foot 130 THE HALL AND THE STAIRS
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