DOI Heft:
No. 57 (December 1897)
DOI Artikel:Scott, Mackay H. Baillie: A small country house
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18390#0214
A Small Country House
STAIRCASE M. H. BAILLIE SCOTT, ARCHITECT
Taking the front door now us a natural starting-
point for a consideration of the house, one is
greeted on the threshold by that essentially modern
requirement, a bicycle-room, which will also supply
a resting-place for coats and hats. To the right is
the inner partly glazed door to the hall, which is
lighted by a row of mullioned panes with a broad
window-seat. The sketch shows the corner fire-
place with its brick arch and two shelves and the
staircase, which is treated in a simple and cottage-
like style.
As will be seen on referring to the plan, nearly
the whole of the wall space in the hall is com-
prised in the sliding partitions to the dining-room
and drawing-room, and the doors to porch and
serving-room. The effect will thus be that of a
panelled room, and it will be a matter of individual
taste as to how this panelling should be treated.
It may be low-toned fumigated oak or stained pine,
or it may be green stained or painted white.
In the sketch the low-toned treatment is sug-
gested, and above the dark wood a frieze of plain
creamy plaster. Here, if funds allow, a modelled
frieze in white would be a pleasing addition, or a
broad and simple stencil pattern.
The furnishing of this hall is shown almost table, a simple wooden clock on the mantel-
cntirely in the sketch. piece (instead of the usual handsome marble
A little writing-table at the side of the fireplace timepiece), a few rugs on the floor, a copper
and another small table at the side of the drawing- coalscuttle, and iireirons in wrought iron and
room door, with a chair and a small stool at the copper hanging in a row at the side of the lire,
fireside, a copper candle sconce over the writing- This is the inventory of the furniture.
In the dining-room the
most striking feature is the
ingle-nook in the corner with
its red-brick back, Dutch
tiles, and copper hood, and
its wide brick hearth.
The table is of solid
construction and as narrow
as may be, the chairs rush-
bottomed, and the side-
board of the dresser kind.
The walls are hung with
low-toned stencilled can-
vas, and on this a few pic-
tures are carefully placed
'~~~A*"nr —pictures, not framed,
mounted, and glazed in
----—- m ffll —•—-—- :.. br% ,j the usual conventional way,
t ,.
if! 1 *
\ . 1
a „ ..,MII>......
fill
pinincRoon
, Jrr . ■ but possessing the same
qualities of breadth and
simplicity which have been
aimed at throughout.
DINING-ROOM M. II. BAILLIE SCOT J', ARCHITECT
172
(Continued on page 177.)
STAIRCASE M. H. BAILLIE SCOTT, ARCHITECT
Taking the front door now us a natural starting-
point for a consideration of the house, one is
greeted on the threshold by that essentially modern
requirement, a bicycle-room, which will also supply
a resting-place for coats and hats. To the right is
the inner partly glazed door to the hall, which is
lighted by a row of mullioned panes with a broad
window-seat. The sketch shows the corner fire-
place with its brick arch and two shelves and the
staircase, which is treated in a simple and cottage-
like style.
As will be seen on referring to the plan, nearly
the whole of the wall space in the hall is com-
prised in the sliding partitions to the dining-room
and drawing-room, and the doors to porch and
serving-room. The effect will thus be that of a
panelled room, and it will be a matter of individual
taste as to how this panelling should be treated.
It may be low-toned fumigated oak or stained pine,
or it may be green stained or painted white.
In the sketch the low-toned treatment is sug-
gested, and above the dark wood a frieze of plain
creamy plaster. Here, if funds allow, a modelled
frieze in white would be a pleasing addition, or a
broad and simple stencil pattern.
The furnishing of this hall is shown almost table, a simple wooden clock on the mantel-
cntirely in the sketch. piece (instead of the usual handsome marble
A little writing-table at the side of the fireplace timepiece), a few rugs on the floor, a copper
and another small table at the side of the drawing- coalscuttle, and iireirons in wrought iron and
room door, with a chair and a small stool at the copper hanging in a row at the side of the lire,
fireside, a copper candle sconce over the writing- This is the inventory of the furniture.
In the dining-room the
most striking feature is the
ingle-nook in the corner with
its red-brick back, Dutch
tiles, and copper hood, and
its wide brick hearth.
The table is of solid
construction and as narrow
as may be, the chairs rush-
bottomed, and the side-
board of the dresser kind.
The walls are hung with
low-toned stencilled can-
vas, and on this a few pic-
tures are carefully placed
'~~~A*"nr —pictures, not framed,
mounted, and glazed in
----—- m ffll —•—-—- :.. br% ,j the usual conventional way,
t ,.
if! 1 *
\ . 1
a „ ..,MII>......
fill
pinincRoon
, Jrr . ■ but possessing the same
qualities of breadth and
simplicity which have been
aimed at throughout.
DINING-ROOM M. II. BAILLIE SCOT J', ARCHITECT
172
(Continued on page 177.)