DOI issue:
No. 34 (January, 1896)
DOI article:Morris, G. L.: Some thoughts on the building of a house
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17295#0252
The Building of a House
which is also fixed behind the piercings in upper
and lower part. The shades of electric lights are
copper, square on plan, dished up in the centre.
A little to the left of the entrance door, facing
you, is the library (Fig. 12), fitted with bookcases
(with glazed doors in the portion above the sill-
line) to the height of about seven feet on two sides
of the room only. Above the small wood cornice
that caps the case a simple-coloured frieze in
plaster is introduced, brought out to the face of
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the bookcase. By this arrangement no dust will
collect in the cases, and the frieze is thus shown to
greater advantage. The hills in the background
are slightly modelled and coloured purple; the
trees midway between the foreground and the hills
are a little in relief; the trees and shrubs in fore-
ground are highest, being | of an inch at most
higher than the ordinary surface. The trunks and
branches of the trees are brown in colour, the
ribbon-like bands that suggest the foliage, green. fig. 9.—alternative design for the above
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which is also fixed behind the piercings in upper
and lower part. The shades of electric lights are
copper, square on plan, dished up in the centre.
A little to the left of the entrance door, facing
you, is the library (Fig. 12), fitted with bookcases
(with glazed doors in the portion above the sill-
line) to the height of about seven feet on two sides
of the room only. Above the small wood cornice
that caps the case a simple-coloured frieze in
plaster is introduced, brought out to the face of
pram
§ / <St* «fer *S*&
J I 4gJ& <SSfjf<&
umuiiiwiiupniDijE
fig. 8.—fireplace in living-room
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l
T
-irniiiiniMiiiniiuiiiiiiiiirommitoiiiiiiiiiiiii'-'—- 1 : -mm
S*SP JBfo ^Jftfe i
fit—(>l
Vi
fig. 6.—staircase
the bookcase. By this arrangement no dust will
collect in the cases, and the frieze is thus shown to
greater advantage. The hills in the background
are slightly modelled and coloured purple; the
trees midway between the foreground and the hills
are a little in relief; the trees and shrubs in fore-
ground are highest, being | of an inch at most
higher than the ordinary surface. The trunks and
branches of the trees are brown in colour, the
ribbon-like bands that suggest the foliage, green. fig. 9.—alternative design for the above
235