International studio (23.1904)

A House at Southbourne



“ FOXWOLD,” SOUTHBOURNE: THE DINING ROOM G. H. BREWERTON, ARCHITECT

“ picking-out ” of woodwork, white frieze and ceiling.
The lounge has an Austrian oak floor, pink walls,
light-green picture rail, and woodwork, cream-white
and moss green; ceiling white.
The dining room has
an oak floor, Venetian
red walls, dark-green
woodwork and mantel-
piece, light green frieze
and white ceiling. This
room is low toned, for
my idea is that each
room should be deco-
rated with a view to
look at its best once in
the twenty-four hours—■
i.e., at the psychological
moment when it is used
for its chief purpose —
and a dining room’s show-
time is the dinner-hour,
when the low-toned de-
corations serve as a foil
to the light napery, silver
and glass.
The studio has light
stone-coloured walls,
green mantelpiece, old
gold tiles in fire-place,

green picture rail, wood-
work picked out in green,
and a pitch-pine floor.
The billiard-room has
pitch-pine flooring, cream-
coloured walls, crimson
picture rail, wood-work
cream picked out with
crimson, crimson mantel-
piece, and green antique
tiles to fire-place. The
staircase and upstairs pas-
sages are of pale orpiment
yellow including the pic-
ture rail and skirting
boards ; the doors yellow,
with panels painted green.
Down-stairs the door
panels are large slabs of
Cape mahogany, the nat-
ural wood well oiled, thus
showing the beautiful
grain.
Three of the bedrooms
are pale orpiment with
the wood-work yellow, picked out with green and
light green friezes. One bedroom is white with
blue wood-work, with light green frieze. Another
bedroom is pink, wood - work dark green, and

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“ FOXWOLD,” SOUTHBOURNE : THE LOUNGE

G. H. BREWERTON, ARCHITECT