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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar00newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Munn and Co
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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3o8 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS May, 1906
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The Water Front Has Two Porches with a Recessed Central Portico The living-room is on the right of the hall, and occupies the whole of one of the wings overlooking the water front. The wood is cypress, stained a dark brown, with wall cov- ered with red grass cloth. The ceiling has exposed beams of pine stained dark. The chimney nook, which is unusually large, is lined with rough red brick, with a row of dull green Grueby tiles decorated with cream colored ships and sea gulls. Over the fireplace is a great copper hood, very beau- tiful in color. The hearth is of red tiles. The furniture is almost entirely of the arts and crafts type. Adjoining this room, toward the entrance front, is a small writing-room, whose walls are covered from floor to ceiling with large panels, painted white. The furniture is mahogany. The dining-room, on the opposite side of the hall, is fin- ished in California redwood, many of the planks being of unusual size and beauty. The walls are paneled to the height of seven feet with this wood, the planks being set upright and tied with Spanish keys. Above is a simple shelf supported on heavy plain brackets. The doors, which were especially de- signed for this room, consist of a single plank with long strap hinges of dull copper. The chimney nook is lined with rough red bricks with a row of variously colored Mercer tiles at the top and at the level of the base of this copper hood. The ceiling has exposed beams. The largest room in the house, and in many respects the most attractive one, is the lounging-room on the third floor, known as the "attic room." It occupies the whole of one end of the house, and is twenty by fifty-five feet in dimensions. It is open to the ridge of the gambrel roof. Across both ends are galleries, and on one side are recessed alcoves for beds, while a large locker-room and bathroom are reached from the gallery. These bedrooms are intended for use only when the rest of the house is fully occupied. The Bohemian character of this room is suggested by the card patterns which are used as a leading motif of the decorations, in the panels over the mantels, and in the balustrades around the gallery. The woodwork is rough sawed spruce, stained a rich brown, with birch bark between the beams and the ceiling under the gallery. The rough plastered walls are painted a dull, gray- ish green. There are many bear rugs on the hardwood floor.

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