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 410
t- DESIGNS FOR VILLAS OR COUNTRY HOUSES. 341 ment to the other. They should be finished with archedopenings or doorways, which may be himg with heavy cuitainsinstead of doors, and would have a very pretty efiect. In the dining-room there is a recess opposite the fireplace,for the sideboard. D, is… … [Fig. 162. Second Floor.] The small bed-room on the left of D has two dressing-roomsattached to it; the fireplace being placed in the dressing-roominstead of the bed-room, which is by far the better place for it—since it leaves the air of the bed-room cool and fresh, andthe servant who lights the…
Architecture, Domestic
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