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THE CRAFTSMAN'S HOUSE : A PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF OUR THEORIES OF HOME BUILDING
WHILE all the houses illustrated in this book are of Craftsman design, the dwelling shown here is perhaps the most complete example in existence of the Craftsman idea, for the reason that it is to be built by the founder and editor of ThE CRAFTSMAN at "Craftsman Farms," his estate in New Jersey, and will be used there as his own home. Therefore in this case the tastes of the designer are one with the tastes and needs of the owner, who
45has found no creative work more absorbingly delightful than this planning of a home which he intends to live in for the rest of his life. In addition to this it affords the opportunity for working out personally, in every practical detail, all the theories which have been applied to the houses of other people.
Craftsman Farms was apparently planned
by nature for the site of just such a house.
It has heavily wooded hills, little wandering
brooks, low-lying meadows and
plenty of garden and orchard land;
and the house will be built on a
natural terrace or plateau half
way tip the highest hill. The
building faces toward the south,
overlooking the partially cleared
hillside, which runs down to the
orchard and meadows at the foot
and which needs very little cultivation to develop it into a beautiful sloping greensward with here
and there a clump of trees or a
mass of shrubbery. There is a
friendliness about the natural con-
formation of the land which makes
it seem homelike before one stone
is laid upon another or one bit of
underbrush is cleared away, for
the combination of sheltering hills
and woods with a sheltered swale
or meadowland gives interesting