. Your home and its decoration; a series of practical suggestions for the painting, decorating, and furnishing of the home, comp. .. . ible, though too radicala departure from the acknowledged pure form should be many of these houses built throughout the country, and par-ticularly of the cottage type, one realizes that the jig-saw and turning-lathe have gotten in their pernicious work. A preponderous useof Palladin windows and fan-shaped glass for front doors is a mis-take, unless the proportions of the house are sufficiently imposingand dignified to carry them. In the modified,even
. Your home and its decoration; a series of practical suggestions for the painting, decorating, and furnishing of the home, comp. .. . ible, though too radicala departure from the acknowledged pure form should be many of these houses built throughout the country, and par-ticularly of the cottage type, one realizes that the jig-saw and turning-lathe have gotten in their pernicious work. A preponderous useof Palladin windows and fan-shaped glass for front doors is a mis-take, unless the proportions of the house are sufficiently imposingand dignified to carry them. In the modified,even more than inthe pure Colonial,home, simplicityshould be the key-note. So treated, asmall and inexpen-sive house, built onColonial lines, maybe extremely digni-fied and attractive,whereas if too muchdetail is shown, andthe ornamentation isoverdone, the housewill stand for allthat is most objec-tionable in architec-ture. The panels, col-umns, ornamentalor plain cove, thecarved or simpleT ,, r- I r u .u r- . r, mantcls, which find In the Colonial House, the rront Uoor is an . Especially Important Feature their plaCCS in the [ 80 ]. Plate LXXIX. COLONIAL HOUSES interior of Colonial houses, are easily recognized. Of the manyarchitectural details and ornaments of the pure Colonial house we
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