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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar91912newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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November, 1912 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 403 The great number of bungalows and houses of the Mis- sion type, in all of its ramifications, which have been built within the last few years, have brought forward hardware of great simplicity of design, having a dull finish like gun- metal, and especially designed for houses of this nature. Money spent for good hardware is never wasted and the subject should not be dismissed as being of but slight importance. The following table is supplied by a well- known firm of manufacturers, for the guidance of the in- tending home builder, and gives the lowest approximate amount which should be allowed for the house hardware; excluding the rough hardware, such as nails, sash pulleys, sash weights, and other items of a like nature: For houses costing $3,000, allow not less than $75 4,000, " ' 100 5,000, " " 125 6,000, " ' " 150 7,000, " " 200 10,000, '• ' 300 The dealers in fine hardware issue catalogues of their products and it is a good idea to look into the subject during the early state of one's building operations. WEATHER-VANES (Continued from page 394) many church spires has never been quite satisfactorily ex- plained by either antiquaries or ecclesiologists but the fact remains, nevertheless, that the specimens of aureate poultry are so numerous that they have made the name weather- cock interchangeable with weather-vane. Ecclesiastical lore they were in use as early as the Heian dynasty (722-1155 is so richly emblematic that there seems no good reason why A.D.). These Japanese chodai, as they were called, had that the grouping is characteristic. The plants, needless to say, are Perennials. The dairy-maid and the calf of course belong on top of a cow-house while the oxen might either go there or else decorate the ridge of a shed for farming implements. No one will question for a moment that the horses are meant for the stable vane or that the woman and chickens are destined for a hen-house. The fish is intended for some seaside building and the hare of course is called to pre- side over a rabbitry. From these few specimens some notion may be gained of the manifold possibilities for suit- able and decorative vanes. We can, if we will, have a whole aerial menagerie, one might say a whole cosmogony, for every conceivable thing that swims, flies or runs seems susceptible of some representation. Besides animate objects there is a choice assortment of such non-committal things as arrows, bottles, keys, feathers and bannerets. All these and many more there are silhouetted against the sky, at the beck of every capricious wind that blows, ready to delight the eye and minister to the fancy as they turn now this way, now that. A little thought spent on getting a good and representative vane is always thought well invested. JAPANESE FOUR-POSTERS CORRESPONDENT writes that she wishes to furnish a bedroom in the Japanese style but fears a four-poster bed which she wishes to use would be out of place in such a room. As a matter of fact the four-poster boasts of an ancient ancestry in Japan itself for
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a reminder of Peter's incon- stancy should enjoy a monop- oly of steeples. It is when we come to dwellings and their adjacent out-buildings that the fancy for variety in vanes takes its fullest play. Byre and stable, hennery and kennel can each be designated by an appropri- ate device. A lodge and gar- dener's cottage is unmistak- ably labeled by the vane shown in one of the illustra- tions where the worthy flori- culturist is caught in the very act of watering his posies. The flowers are rewarding his labors by flourishing fam- ously. One of the poultry houses on the same estate is marked by the sign of the hen and chickens, the latter hav- ing an exciting tug of war with a hapless earthworm which they are heartlessly rending in twain. The cir- cular gazebo or tea house of still another picture displays a scene taken from real life. From the little black and tan terrier at one end to the rab- bit at the other, every detail has its actual prototype. The terrier chases the rabbit every day and always in the direction in which the "Molly- cotton-tail" isn't running so

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