The Studio yearbook of decorative art (1918)

A SUBURBAN HOUSE

may be wisely worn by those
who have lost the power of
natural and graceful move-
ment.
In the little house shown here
as an example of this manner
of building, as it is designed
for a suburban plot oppor-
tunity has been taken to make
amends to the mere visitor
whose claims have been dis-
regarded in the previous plans,
by providing as the main
apartment a large drawing-
room on the upper floor.
In approaching the house
from the road the miniature
fapade greets us without any
jealously - guarded strip of
front garden. Here we can
indulge our aesthetic taste in
the particular shade of paint for the front door which we aflect. On the
right of the entrance-hall the study is developed with a recessed projection
which entails no appreciable loss of symmetry, and a similar projection on the
garden front gives a small loggia or garden-room, adjoining the dining-
The remainder of the ground plan is taken up by the kitchen pre-


GROUND PLAN

room.

mises,to which, in a small basement, are added larder and cellar. On the first
floor the bedroom suite is planned as a distinctive group of rooms apart
from the drawing-room, while in the space supplied by the mansard-roof
above four more bedrooms are arranged.
This small house was designed, on strictly economical lines, for a limited
frontage, and in pre-war times might have been built for about £800. It


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