one wishes a very quiet effect; red is a favorite color
and contrasts well with white. It must be remembered that quiet colors
can be used in greater profusion than glaring ones; and if the exterior
of the house is white, it permits one a much wider latitude in the
choice of colors and in the arrangement of pleasing effects.

The combination of house and garden that is found on the George E.
Barnard estate of Ipswich, Massachusetts, is ideal and the result of
many years of careful thought. The house was originally a small and
unattractive farmhouse which contained only four rooms; it was
dilapidated and forlorn in appearance and situated in the midst of
uncultivated grounds. It was the location which attracted the present
owner, for he saw here great possibilities for development; so he
purchased the estate with a view of surrounding the house with gardens.

[Illustration: Before Remodeling]

The house has been added to, a little at a time, by throwing out here a
room and there a veranda, instead of completing the whole work at once.
Vine-covered verandas now surround three sides of the house; the
shrubbery has been well planted.

From the time the garden was first started, it was the desire of the
owner to paint in flowers what other people have painted on canvas.
Steep hills that obstructed the view at the side of the house have been
converted into gentle slopes; bare spots have been thickly planted, and
colors have been combined so that there is no inharmonious note in the
finished garden. Careful planning eliminated straight lines, but not
even the slightest curve in a flower bed was made until after due
consideration. The flowers were planted to fulfill, as near as possible,
the scheme of a landscape picture, and each plant not in perfect harmony
was removed. The effect as one sits on the veranda is like looking at an
immense canvas, where the pictures change with every move, for the
estate is a masterpiece of color and bloom, depicting a different phase
of landscape on every side.

In remodeling the house, so many changes have been made that it is
almost impossible to tell the manner in which the improvements were
effected. There is not a room in the house but has been thoroughly
changed, nor one that has not been enlarged. The service quarters are
all new; they have been placed in the rear, where they do not intrude on
the scheme that has been carried out in remodeling--that of making an
attractive house in