. American homes and gardens. ng-room is a great window indicated on the second floor from the dining-room, which is also the living-room,the effect of this stairway with its round-arched landing-window is good and it is also most sensibly placed. Howfar better is it to have a stair descending into a room ratherthan pent up in a coop-like entry, which some unreasonableconvention of the recent past seemed to demand, but forwhich there is no real raison detre. The vista through thedining-room and up the stairs is pleasing likewise from the i6 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS January, 1913 en
. American homes and gardens. ng-room is a great window indicated on the second floor from the dining-room, which is also the living-room,the effect of this stairway with its round-arched landing-window is good and it is also most sensibly placed. Howfar better is it to have a stair descending into a room ratherthan pent up in a coop-like entry, which some unreasonableconvention of the recent past seemed to demand, but forwhich there is no real raison detre. The vista through thedining-room and up the stairs is pleasing likewise from the i6 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS January, 1913 end room—the parlor ifyou choose to call it so, but,please you, a parlor in theold English sense of theword and not one of thosedreadful apartments with anatmosphere of hair-cloth,crinoline and buckram. Through the generously-wide kitchen windows poursa flood of sunlight war-ranted to keep the cook incheerful mood—a thinghighly needful for a happyhousehold, for good cookeryand ill-humor are usuallystrangers. To some, it may. One of the bedrooms in Krisheim Cottage with dormers popping uphere and there and every-where. There is no desireherein to decry dormers ingeneral. They are, how-ever, a source of danger andit is best that we shouldfrankly admit it. Theirtreatment requires the mostconsummate skill and if theyare not carefully managedthey can spoil completely thewhole aspect of an otherwiseexcellent exterior. Where itis possible to have an un-pierced roof, especially withthe type of house here illus- seem a bit far-fetched to allude to culinary psychology in an trated, it is generally preferable for artistic considerations. architectural description, but it may properly be urged thatwhatever may conduce to the physical comfort and happi-ness of in-door family life is not beyond the purview ofarchitect or home-maker. The second floor, with its four bed-chambers and fair-sized bathroom, is as compact as anything well could be, Now, as to the purely practical side of the matt
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