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Here we have a diversity of large and small rooms furnished in various periods, and generally well furnished today, but not supremely interesting for all that, because the problem of making a replica with unlimited funds is never as interesting as that of making something more or less original with a very definitely limited outlay although it may be infinitely more profitable! In this
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regard I can only express the hope that we may either convert our most talented decorators to accepting financially less but spiritually more profitable jobs, or our millionaires to having their homes at least a little less exactly like their neighbors'.
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CHAPTER IV
COUNTRY HOUSES
So many books and articles have been written about the country house, the suburban house, the farmhouse, both large and small (and this refers to the books as well as the houses), that it seems more or less absurd to attempt to say anything significant about them in a single chapter, for every existing type of decoration has been used in these residences and every possible form of architecture. The very fact that the house stands free of its neighbors gives the architect greater possibilities than he has in the urban home, and when the ground space is ample he may surround the house with trees and gardens which importantly affect its decoration. To deal with all sorts of homes in this chapter is obviously impracticable; we can merely glance at them, and note an interesting point here and there.
Now I should like to start with little houses first, and with old houses that are to be altered, and then to say a word or two about new ones and great ones.
It is easy to build a new house on the lines of an old one, and it is not extremely difficult to make a real old house function like one that is brand new. For the accomplishment of the former feat there is needed a knowledge of the great historic periods of architecture and decoration and a deep sympathy with the one that
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