. American homes and gardens . , for no one will keepit long enough to find that it does not always survive. Unfor-tunately every one can not have a new set of furniture witheach change of style. The old furniture is often good enoughto last some time, and often it must be retained from the lackof means to purchase new articles. The housewife should notbe discouraged by such matters. So long as there is furniturefactories just so long there will be changes in furniture solution of the difficulty is not in the constant buyingof new furniture, but in the buying of good furniture whena
. American homes and gardens . , for no one will keepit long enough to find that it does not always survive. Unfor-tunately every one can not have a new set of furniture witheach change of style. The old furniture is often good enoughto last some time, and often it must be retained from the lackof means to purchase new articles. The housewife should notbe discouraged by such matters. So long as there is furniturefactories just so long there will be changes in furniture solution of the difficulty is not in the constant buyingof new furniture, but in the buying of good furniture whenany is needed. As a matter of fact style in furniture is notalways nearly as essential as excellence and goodness. Theseare truly permanent qualities, while mere brightness and pret-tiness, no matter how fresh and pleasing when new, seldomhave lasting qualities. January, 1907 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS Notable American Homes THE BLOW-BY-THE-SEAHow a Woman Built An Italian Villa Without the Aid of an Architect By Tomaso Cambiaso. ]R. JOHN W. MCDONALDS villa, at Mon-mouth Beach, N. J., is a very unusual typeof country house. It is built of stucco witha copper green roof; the whole of the exte-rior being of white and green, with the ex-ception of the Roman reliefs at the cornices,shields, and panels, which are of ivory white and raw sienna,even the awnings being of copper green. If the style of ar-chitecture should be named it would unquestionably be calledRoman. It is a most unique bit of architecture designed andcarried out entirely by Mrs. McDonald herself. No archi-tect could have permitted these quaint archaisms to remainunmodified, for much of the charm of Mrs. McDonaldshouse, as it stands, would have departed. It might have gained a higher architectural quality thanthat of a quaint and exotic charm, but that charm evidentlydepends upon the spacious area of blank wall, the barredwindows, the shut-in prison effect of the verandas and log-gias which look as if they had been cut
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