DOI Heft:
No. 136 (July, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Scott, Mackay H. Baillie: A cottage in the country
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19882#0142
A Cottage in the Country
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plastered surfaces, and which then proceeds to which are chiefly occupied. In the early days of
decorate these surfaces with superficial materials civilisation this position for dining was chosen
covered [with patterns, is here set aside for the chiefly because of the excellent posture for defence
realities of the structure itself. thus secured and although it is now happily no
In the hall or house place, which forms the longer necessary to thus protect oneself from a
principal apartment of this country dwelling, and treacherous foe, the instinct to do so may survive
which indeed almost constitutes the house, the and give an added sense of comfort and security
grey-brown of timber and the whitewashed wall to a seat against a wall,
spaces seem to demand little aid from superficial To realise
decoration, and this is confined to the dining the best effect
recess, mainly as an expedient to add to the rich- of this ar-
ness and depth of the shade under the beam which rangement of
divides this recess from the hall itself. The special the dining
uses and advantages of this dining recess as a sub- table, one
stitute for a separate dining room have already must imagine
been set forth in The Studio. In the winter the hall itself upper floor plan of cottage
time perhaps its greatest ad-
vantage consists in its tendency
to simplify the heating
problem in the average house.
Households may be classified
by the number of fires which
are normally used. In the
labourer's cottage one finds a
one-fire household, and the DOVE
. > COT
general use of the kitchen in
preference to the parlour
results from the reluctance to
maintain any other fire but
that one used in cooking. In
the average small household
one finds a similar reluctance
to keep up more than one
sitting-room fireplace, and so
it is often the dining-room
which is constantly used as
a general sitting-room. For
such a household it seems
reasonable that the partial
incorporation of the dining-
room in the general house
place should be adopted, so
that during meals the family
may share in the warmth and
spaciousness of the hall in-
stead of being confined within
a separated cell, which it
hardly seems worth while to
warm merely for its inter-
mittent uses.
Apart from such considera-
tions, it may be noted that in
a public restaurant it is always
those seats against the wall general ground plan m. h. baillie scott, architect
120
J
plastered surfaces, and which then proceeds to which are chiefly occupied. In the early days of
decorate these surfaces with superficial materials civilisation this position for dining was chosen
covered [with patterns, is here set aside for the chiefly because of the excellent posture for defence
realities of the structure itself. thus secured and although it is now happily no
In the hall or house place, which forms the longer necessary to thus protect oneself from a
principal apartment of this country dwelling, and treacherous foe, the instinct to do so may survive
which indeed almost constitutes the house, the and give an added sense of comfort and security
grey-brown of timber and the whitewashed wall to a seat against a wall,
spaces seem to demand little aid from superficial To realise
decoration, and this is confined to the dining the best effect
recess, mainly as an expedient to add to the rich- of this ar-
ness and depth of the shade under the beam which rangement of
divides this recess from the hall itself. The special the dining
uses and advantages of this dining recess as a sub- table, one
stitute for a separate dining room have already must imagine
been set forth in The Studio. In the winter the hall itself upper floor plan of cottage
time perhaps its greatest ad-
vantage consists in its tendency
to simplify the heating
problem in the average house.
Households may be classified
by the number of fires which
are normally used. In the
labourer's cottage one finds a
one-fire household, and the DOVE
. > COT
general use of the kitchen in
preference to the parlour
results from the reluctance to
maintain any other fire but
that one used in cooking. In
the average small household
one finds a similar reluctance
to keep up more than one
sitting-room fireplace, and so
it is often the dining-room
which is constantly used as
a general sitting-room. For
such a household it seems
reasonable that the partial
incorporation of the dining-
room in the general house
place should be adopted, so
that during meals the family
may share in the warmth and
spaciousness of the hall in-
stead of being confined within
a separated cell, which it
hardly seems worth while to
warm merely for its inter-
mittent uses.
Apart from such considera-
tions, it may be noted that in
a public restaurant it is always
those seats against the wall general ground plan m. h. baillie scott, architect
120