The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics . ng white. making it a thing of beauty, with adelightful play of high and low lights,against which the weathered shinglesof the roof and the deep green blindsof the upper windows are in effectivecontrast. The main entrance to the house isdenoted by a broad hood, in which theshell motif is indicated by a plasteredrecess. Beneath the hood, there is awide, six-paneled door, flanked by small-paned side lights. This interesting door-way is duplicated upon the gardenelevation of the house. There, how-ever, the shell above
The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics . ng white. making it a thing of beauty, with adelightful play of high and low lights,against which the weathered shinglesof the roof and the deep green blindsof the upper windows are in effectivecontrast. The main entrance to the house isdenoted by a broad hood, in which theshell motif is indicated by a plasteredrecess. Beneath the hood, there is awide, six-paneled door, flanked by small-paned side lights. This interesting door-way is duplicated upon the gardenelevation of the house. There, how-ever, the shell above the doorway formsthe central feature of a GermantownHood, which, extending the full widthof the house, materially decreases theapparent height. These two entrances add much tothe attractiveness of the long, centralhall which they terminate. The hallis nine feet wide, and it is very simplytreated, both as to architecture anddecoration; a staircase, with delicate,ivory-white balusters and risers, accom-panied by the mahogany handrail andtreads of Colonial precedent, being the. THE LIVING-ROOM A REVERSION TO TYPE 509 chief feature. The space beneath thisstaircase has been advantageously util-ized for a coat-closet, so located thatit is conveniently near the main entrance. The hall walls are hung with a sub-dued gray paper, which is very effectiveagainst the ivory-white appears again in the rug, form-ing a background for a small conven-tional design in dull rose and pieces of antique furniturecomplete a hall, which, by reason of itswholesome restraint in adornment andcoloring, creates an atmosphere of pleas-ing restfulness. Commanding delightful outlooks inthree directions, the living-room occu-pies the entire space at one side ofthe hall. It is a pleasant, low-ceiledroom, twenty-seven and a half feetlong by seventeen feet wide, so gener-ously provided with windows that thegreat outdoor world seems indeedalmost to pervade it. One wall is centredby a bro
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