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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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the Fall of the year any library is merely a room filled with books. Opposite the living-room is the dining-room, where more casement windows look out across the lawn and where another window reaching to the floor opens upon a small porch planned for the serving of meals out-of-doors. This veranda is screened with wire netting and is very close to a stretch of woodland into which a glimpse is given. The white woodwork of the dining- room includes a narrow shelf or plate rack which is carried around the room at the top of the doors and windows, and upon this narrow shelf are various old plates and tiles placed against the plaster frieze. The walls are covered with an old-fashioned flowered paper which creates a background for mahogany furniture of a very simple Sheraton pattern adorned with narrow strips of inlay, and the tints of both the furniture and wall covers are emphasized by the dark-toned rugs which cover the floor. In all of these rooms the lighting fixtures are side lights of brass with the electric bulbs covered by cut glass shades of a most attractive pattern. ^(Continued on page 264)
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A delightful vista is presented from the broad porch-terrace situated between the bays of the living-room and the dining-room

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