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A COUNTRY CLUBHOUSE
and a dressing room and two bathrooms, so that there is not only accommodation for transient guests but room for a few guests who may wish accommodation over night or for several days at a time.
The smoking room and dressing room for men are placed below the main floor, as in the case of the building at Craftsman Farms the ground slopes sufficiently away from the hack of the house to allow ample accommodation for these basement rooms. This slope is sufficiently steep to expose the stone foundation to a depth of seven or eight feet, so that anyone entering the smoking room from the outside comes in on a level instead of going down as into a basement. Flower boxes placed between the pillars around this end of the porch will afford some protection where the slope is most abrupt.
As will be seen, the design of the house is very simple, the effect of comfort and of ample spaces depending entirely upon its pro-portions. The big sweep of the low pitched, widely overhanging roof is broken by the broad shallow dormers, which not only give sufficient additional height to make the greater part of the upper story habitable, but also adds much to the structural charm of thebuilding. As the walls of the upper story are of plaster, the logs being used after the manner of half-timber construction, the ends of the dormers are also of plaster and plaster panels divide the groups of casement windows.
These plaster panels form one of the most interesting features of the house because they put into effect our idea of a form of exterior decoration that shall be symbolic of the house itself ,and the environment in which it stands. Roughly modeled in low relief, are figures symbolizing the life and industries of the farm. Dull colored pigments will be used to emphasize these figures and to add a definite color accent to the house, but the pigments will in all cases come into harmony with the natural tones of wood, stone and earth. These panels form the sole decoration that exists purely for the sake of decoration. For the rest, the beauty of the house depends entirely upon structural features : upon the casement windows, which are all uniform in size and are so arranged as to form long horizontal lines; upon the use of the logs and of stone in the foundation and the chimneys and upon the color harmony of the whole in relation to the prevailing tones of the landscape.

UPSTAIRS SITTING ROOM, SHOWING THE WRITING TABLE AND SEATS IN THE DORMER.
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