. Domestic architecture, being a series of designs, for mansions, villas, rectory houses, parsonage houses, bailiff's lodge, gardener's lodge, game-keeper's lodge, park-gate lodges, etc., in the Grecian, Italian, and old English style of architecture : with observations on the appropriate choice of site, the whole designed with strict reference to the practicability of erection, and with due attention to the important consideration of uniting elegance, convenience and domestic comfort with economy, the whole being the result of upwards of thirty years professional experience : with accurate es
. Domestic architecture, being a series of designs, for mansions, villas, rectory houses, parsonage houses, bailiff's lodge, gardener's lodge, game-keeper's lodge, park-gate lodges, etc., in the Grecian, Italian, and old English style of architecture : with observations on the appropriate choice of site, the whole designed with strict reference to the practicability of erection, and with due attention to the important consideration of uniting elegance, convenience and domestic comfort with economy, the whole being the result of upwards of thirty years professional experience : with accurate estimates appended to each design. /?/„/, >v. Basement or office floor. ITALIAN VILLA. DESIGN No. 11. The modern custom of erecting dwelling- houses on a scale suited tolimited establishments, has induced the author to introduce in his workdesigns for small elegant villas in the Italian style, which are externallyappropriate to almost every species of landscape scenery, either to thesequestered spot in the valley, embosomed in trees, or on the rising- groundconspicuous from afar. From the regularity of its architectural characteristics, this style ofbuilding- admits abundant internal arrangements, and convenient accom-modations on every floor, and consequently the apartments may be fittedup, either in a superb style of decoration, or ornamented with economyand elegant simplicity. In designs for villas on a moderate scale, it is essential to preservelargeness of style, or what in the painters art, is expressed in thesignificant phrase, breadth of effect. Where this essential quality ismaintained, the structure, though comparativel
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