The architecture of country houses : including designs for cottages, farm houses, and villas, with remarks on interiors, furniture, and the best modes of warming and ventilating (1851)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 · New York : D. Appleton & Company, 200 Broadway ; Philadelphia : Geo S. Appleton, 164 Chestnut-Street · leaf 402
, water-closets, etc.; and on tlie attic floor, by retainingthe partition as below, and making another in the centre of thehouse, so as to form a passage 3 or 4 feet wide, no less tlianten additional chambci-s, each well lighted and ventilated, canbe obtained, thus making in all, the large number… … The inside decoration should be simple, but real; stainedglass, of that quiet tone of color which true artists are just 330 COUNTRY HOUSES. beginning to find suitable to domestic purposes, and of simpledesign, should fill the windows,—if not all, certainly those ofthe halls, staircase, and library;…
Architecture, Domestic
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