. Houses for town or country. e design of the house, and the lay-out of the ground to a situation which is countrifiedwithout being entirely in the country. The long lineof the house is parallel to the public road, fromwhich the grounds are separated by a brick wall,low enough to give definiteness of enclosure, but nothigh enough to seem exclusive. The house is ap-proached by a straight driveway, which turns in tothe back of the house, but which is reached from thefront of the house by a brick walk running the wholelength of the fagade. The building is situated on aslightly higher level than t
. Houses for town or country. e design of the house, and the lay-out of the ground to a situation which is countrifiedwithout being entirely in the country. The long lineof the house is parallel to the public road, fromwhich the grounds are separated by a brick wall,low enough to give definiteness of enclosure, but nothigh enough to seem exclusive. The house is ap-proached by a straight driveway, which turns in tothe back of the house, but which is reached from thefront of the house by a brick walk running the wholelength of the fagade. The building is situated on aslightly higher level than this brick walk—a levelwhich is emphasised by a stone terrace, from whichthe rooms of the house are entered by a couple ofstone steps. The entrance proper is at some distancefrom the road, and is marked by the projection of alarge gabled room over the brick and stone terrace,carried by plain brick piers. The design may beclassified as a free example of half-timbered work,which is sufficiently picturesque and irregular to 123. HOUSE OF MR. ORENDORFF, CANTON, ILL. THE HOUSE FOR ALL THE YEAR look well in the background of the neighbouringfoliage, but which at the same time is a well-bal-anced composition. The efifect of the place is whollycharming. The immediate surroundings of the house havebeen formally treated; but the formality has neverfor a moment degenerated into emptiness andrigidity. The house is at home on its site; the landround about has been kept genuinely natural in ap-pearance. There are very few all-the-year-roundhouses in this country in which such a balance ofdesirable qualities has been preserved. The interiors are, perhaps, less successful than theexterior. They show a preference for a simple, con-sistent scheme, which in the case of the living-roomhas the appearance of being original as well as at-tractive; but the value of this scheme has not beenpreserved in the somewhat incongruous furnitureand hangings. The dining-room is more consistentlyrealised; and th
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