. American homes and gardens. ason. The entrance is protected by a small vestibule, anarrangement especially desirable in stormy weather, andthe servant who attends the door does not have to passthrough the living-room to reach the house entrance. Thehall is thrown into the great living-room to extend it andyet retains characteristics of its own. Perhaps no featuremore commends itself to comfort than the placing of afireplace at the extreme end of the living-room rather thanin the center of its side-wall. This latter arrangement re-flects cheeriness when looked upon from a dining-roomacross th
. American homes and gardens. ason. The entrance is protected by a small vestibule, anarrangement especially desirable in stormy weather, andthe servant who attends the door does not have to passthrough the living-room to reach the house entrance. Thehall is thrown into the great living-room to extend it andyet retains characteristics of its own. Perhaps no featuremore commends itself to comfort than the placing of afireplace at the extreme end of the living-room rather thanin the center of its side-wall. This latter arrangement re-flects cheeriness when looked upon from a dining-roomacross the hall, but that scarcely compensates for the seclu-sion offered by afireplace nook atthe end of a dining-roomsof the El Morahouses are admir-ably arranged, asone will see from astudy of the planon page 150. Therecessed windowsonthe long wall of theroom insure a floodof sunlight. The en-trance to the kitch-en is inconspicuous-ly but convenientlyplaced and can behidden by a screenFirst floor plan if the owner is provided with a closet, and the fenestration provides forplenty of sunlight. It often happens that the homemaker who intends to builda small house comes across a pleasing set of plans of a dwell-ing whose exterior, on the other hand, is found not to bein accord with his individual taste. These El Mora houses will illustrate that oneneed not turn from the consideration of an accept-able floor plan by reason of the fact of the exteriordesign not meeting ones requirements. Instead, an endlessnumber of exteriors can be evolved to fit a single set ofplans, and with this fact firmly impressed upon the home-builder he may takeup his problems withrenewed interest andenthusiasm. Else-where in this num-ber of AmericanHomes and Gar-dens appears anarticle on the subjectof the site for thesmall bouse. Thevery fact that thesmall house usuallyhas but a limitedarea for its locationmakes it necessaryfor the home-builderto give carefulthought to the mat-ter of the fitne
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