;
the wainscot is painted white, and the hangings at the window brighten
the plain effect of the wall treatment. There is no crowding of
furniture, but a dignified atmosphere pervades the entire room. It is an
apartment such as one loves to find--quiet and restful. These two rooms
occupy the entire front of the house.

Opening from the hall is a long reception-room which was originally a
part of the old house and which shows two rooms thrown into one, with an
addition at the end nearest the avenue. This is done in old blue velour
and is furnished in mahogany. The plain tint of the wall gives an
admirable background to the fine old pictures which hang here and there.
Every piece of furniture in this room is Colonial. Ionic columns outline
the wide double windows. Light and air have been carefully considered in
the remodeling of the entire house and have particularly been sought in
designing this room, as is shown by the many windows on either side. At
the farther end, to one side, a French window leads to a glassed-in
veranda which is used for a breakfast-room.

This room is a feature of the house, for it has been set in the middle
of the terraced grounds that lie at the side of the house, so that one
can get the full benefit of the picture garden with the slope of the
hill beyond rising to meet the blue of the horizon.

In the reception-room, as in every room in the house, wooden doors have
been removed and replaced by glass ones which act as windows to reveal
the room beyond. It is a most unusual treatment,--this picture idea
carried out inside as well as outside of the house,--for there is no
spot in the whole interior where you do not get a vista of some kind.

[Illustration: The Dining Room]

Beyond the reception-room is the dining-room. This, too, is a long,
narrow room and has been added, since the house was purchased, but so
fitted in that it is seemingly a part of the old house. This room is
divided into a dining and a breakfast-room and is used during inclement
weather. Heavy draperies make it possible to shut the rooms off from
each other if desired. The entire end of the breakfast-room has been
given up to groups of long French windows which are repeated on either
side, making a wide bay window. Here again has the picture effect been
carried out, for the windows act as a frame to the mass of harmonious
blossoms beyond, with their setting of green. The dining-room proper
has a paneled Colonial landscape p