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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesga41907newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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A Large Open Fireplace with Paneled Over- mantel Is Placed in the Living-room not very clear in the interior views herewith presented. Mrs. Cromwell looked at her furniture, and remarked: "I have scarcely a piece that properly belongs here. We shall have to live up to this house by slow degrees." But better this way than to have a repre- sentative collection of historical furniture in a poor architectural set- ting. That is an almost hopeless anachronism because it is practically impossible to do anything with the house, especially if the furniture be of the vintage of say 1875. Every cultivated person, nowadays, is a furniture collector who is constantly weeding out and improving his stock. Another decided advantage the architect had was permission to use the small sized lights in the lower as well as the upper half of the windows. Not many of an archi- tect's patrons will readily agree to this, and he often had much con- cern how to gain the atmosphere so necessary to one's happiness with the big sheets of plate glass clients have demanded. Indeed the sash bars do not obscure the vision as is always argued, more than one's vision is obscured by the projection of the nose. One may look cross-
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An Artistic Inglenook in the Dining-room Has A Stairway Within the Stately Doorway Is a Paneled Seat and a Colonial Mantel the Feature of the Paneled Hall it, and that is a development of our own day, but with sev- eral advantages, the two piers being united by an arch in the attic. We do not expect every one, however, to note all the his- torical development which has been faithfully carried out in this Highland Mills cottage. The orthodox details, one after another, will impress themselves upon the much in- terested reader, such as the overhanging upon which he will one day discover the molded chamfers which, to give the mill that did the work due credit, are beautifully executed, likewise the molded drops, all very satisfactory. The ex- periments of the interior were not less successful, but are A Quaint China Cabinet Is Built in the Corner of the Dming-room eyed, and encounter the objection, but one does not care to look cross-eyed habitually. It all depends upon the point of focus chosen. There are always kindly disposed friends to tell the owner he is making a great mistake with the small lights of glass; but it is difficult afterward to find any one who will admit having thought the small panes anything other than perfectly entrancing. This waiting to see which way the cat is going to jump in a matter of art is an evidence of either prejudice or fatuity. In an age of magazines and free libraries an education suffi- cient to distinguish between what is true and what is false in architecture is easily within the reach of everybody.

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