On colour, and on the necessity for a general diffusion of taste among all classes . y of dividing thestories by string-courses is obvious; and it is consistent withreason and good taste, instead of being a mere introduction ofornament without the inquiry whether it is suitable or not.]For by dividing the house into stories its real disposition isfollowed out: composed as it is of several floors, one over theother; while on the contrary, the office of a column is tosupport upon its summit an architrave, or aroof, without an intervening floor clinging toits shaft. There are also certain conditi
On colour, and on the necessity for a general diffusion of taste among all classes . y of dividing thestories by string-courses is obvious; and it is consistent withreason and good taste, instead of being a mere introduction ofornament without the inquiry whether it is suitable or not.]For by dividing the house into stories its real disposition isfollowed out: composed as it is of several floors, one over theother; while on the contrary, the office of a column is tosupport upon its summit an architrave, or aroof, without an intervening floor clinging toits shaft. There are also certain conditions inthe arrangement of the stories, which are some-times overlooked, as the proportion of thewindows in each; and we see instances of im-mense windows on the first floor with others ofa diminutive size immediately above them,having the appearance of belonging to two dif-ferent buildings put together by mistake; whichare equally destructive of all symmetry, whetherin a tower or a house. They are not improved by the upperstory being disproportionably low compared to the one below. §100,107. WINDOWS.—FORMS OP HOUSES. 343 it; and still worse are large windows in the upper, and smallones in the lower, part of the building. 106. [The mistake too of making ill-proportioned holesin the walls, yclept windows, of such immoderate size thatthey leave no adequate spaces either between or above them,strikes every one who contemplates the generally monotonouscharacter of our town houses, if his perception has not beendeadened by the habit of seeing what is bad; and the customof leaving the windows without any dressing gives them anappearance of baldness and poverty. Again, it is inconsistentto cut up the whole wall by these large rectangular apertures,in order to admit light, and then do all that is possible to ex-clude the same light by monstrous dust-catching hangings.]And this error of covering half the opening with curtainsis the more obvious, as the space between the windows beingil
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