. Houses for town or country. A LIVABLE HALLWAY of both these schemes, but first let us consider thoserooms which are living-rooms and nothing else. Thus in the room on page 149 the arrangementsmake for comfort and convenience; the room on theright (raised by two steps) is evidently a plantroom, a conservatory of that sort which accommo-dates itself well to the interior in which the familyare to live; and this is not shut off by any door, theconnection being by a wide opening, which makesof the conservatory a kind of bay window of unusualsize and importance. Then in the room itself there is 15
. Houses for town or country. A LIVABLE HALLWAY of both these schemes, but first let us consider thoserooms which are living-rooms and nothing else. Thus in the room on page 149 the arrangementsmake for comfort and convenience; the room on theright (raised by two steps) is evidently a plantroom, a conservatory of that sort which accommo-dates itself well to the interior in which the familyare to live; and this is not shut off by any door, theconnection being by a wide opening, which makesof the conservatory a kind of bay window of unusualsize and importance. Then in the room itself there is 150 THE LIVING-ROOM. HALL WINDOWS another bay window used as a recess for the fixed sofa,with the awkward but evidently inevitable device ofa register for the heat and for the ventilation shownon its upright side. On either side of the simplebrick chimney-piece,—an admirable fixture whichone longs to see more often in these tranquil do-mestic interiors,—there is a window commanding aview of trees and open country, and of these win-dows one is short, with a sill raised very high toallow of bookshelves below it. The encroachingradiator is the only blot on this charming compo-sition. If, as is most probable, the beams of the 151 / HOUSES FOR TOWN OR COUNTRY
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