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DETAIL OF DINING ROOM SHOWING BUILT-IN SIDEBOARD AND WINDOW S.
proper, but is merely the expression of an individual fancy for an outdoor dining room and a sort of camp cooking place. At the end is built an outdoor fireplace and a big rough chimney. The detail of this fireplace, with its hobs, crane, and two brick ovens„ is given in the first illustration.
BED-ROOM

THIRD STORY FLOOR PLAN.
SECOND STORY FLOOR PLAN.
The timbers are not applied to the outside of the house for the purpose of ornamentation, but are a part of the actual construction, which is thus frankly revealed. They are peeled chestnut logs squared on either side and with the face left rounded in the natural shape of the tree, hewn a little here and there to keep the lines from being exaggerated in their unevenness. These timbers are stained to a grayish brown tone that, from a little distance, gives the same effect as the bark. The lines of the red-tiled roof are low and broad, with an overhang of four feet on the ends and three feet at the sides.
The pergola is made of peeled cedar logs left in their natural shape and color, and the floor, which is almost on a level with the ground. is a dull red vitrified brick laid in herring-bone pattern at right angles. Ex-tending from the side of the house is a roofed pergola, —if such a thing may be; for while the timbers and the flooring are those of a pergola, it has a tiled roof like that of the house. This is not a part of the construction
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