Studio: international art (45.1909)

Designs for Country Cottages

instance, sends a pleasing design in rabble stone,
built upon the traditions of the Welsh homestead.
Eboracum (page 295) submits an interesting design
suggestive of the Yorkshire dales and the states-
man’s house, the irregular wall-face giving pic-
turesque effect to the elevations. The set is illus-
trated by a rather thin perspective. Amongst the
foreign designs contributed those by Ländlich and
Friedlich both have basements with cellars of which
it is not very easy to see the use ; in both an objec-
tionable feature is the w.c.’s in the basements. The
former competitor only provides three bedrooms,
and the latter sends no first-floor plan, and his
ground floor shows the kitchen opening directly
into the hall.

Few of the drawings in this competition are
accompanied by sections. It is difficult to imagine
that so many competitors could have produced
their designs without studying them by means of a
section, but this seems the only way of accounting
for the fact that a very large number of them show
bedrooms with quite insufficient headroom be-
tween the floor and the roof plate. Don, for in-
stance, shows bedrooms with walls 4ft. 6 ins. high;
Bil/ee’s design shows the springing of the roof
where the head of the bed is, at this height, and
White Heather has a bedroom next the stairs
also 4 ft. 6 ins. Los (page 296), in the case of
bedroom 4, has a height of only 3 ft. 6 ins. on the
south-east wall where the cupboard is, a criticism
which applies to the bathroom also. This is a
pity, as his plan is otherwise good and on generous
lines. One bedroom in the design of Æneas

has a wall actually only 2 ft. 6 ins. from the floor,
and the fireplace shown would be impossible.
Baudac shows two beds placed against walls where
there is a height of only 4 ft. 6 ins., and one side
of his passage has the same defect, but his
elevations are distinctly pleasing. The Crow sends
a curious design, in which there is some mistake as
to his heights, and one is sorry that, with so inter-
esting a plan, he shows, on elevation, ground floor
windows with sills apparently only 1 ft., and heads
S ft. 6 ins. from the floor, and a coal cellar with
eaves only 3 ft. above the ground.

Fanessa sends a good, simple design, though the
hall might have been made lighter had the window
been placed nearer the cloak room. The parlour
faces north and the landing in Yellow Tights'
design is not well lighted. Lighting, indeed, has
been a weak point in many cases. In Haystack's
design his bedroom, No. 2, would be ill-lit. The
thatched roof, too, is so complex as to necessitate
much flashing—a thing to avoid as much as possible
with this material. Carlo, in his design No. 1,

shows a hall which would be dark. In his No. 2
design the door to “ Hats ” would be only 3 ft.
high ! Fluctuât 7iec submergitur does not supply in
his bedroom the one foot of window-glass to 10 ft.
superficial of flooring asked for by the authorities
in every district ; otherwise it is a good and simple
plan. Cotteswold’s house (page 299) has a living
room of the uncomfortable proportions of 30 ft. by
11 ft. 6 ins., cramped bedrooms, and his first floor
landing and stairs are all but dark, but his elevation
is attractive.

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