M. H. Baillie Scott · Houses Illustrated
An Old House Remodelled
This little house, now occupied by the present writer, is illustrated chiefly as an example of simple types of cottage furniture.
It is essentially a house of small rooms, and the principal structural modifications consisted in forming a hall by the removal of a partition. The fireplace in the room so formed was then removed and the brick arch which formed its structural basis left exposed. A coarse sacking was then fixed on the walls as a background for the old furniture.
In the small dining-room the upper part of the walls and the ceiling were whitewashed, with a dark blue dado beneath.
The exterior, thanks to its long low roof of weathered tiles and its setting of trees, required nothing but a little white paint on the woodwork.
Public-domain text (1906). Transcribed from the OCR of the Internet Archive’s scan of the Getty Research Institute’s copy (gri_33125001067863) and cleaned for reading: line-end hyphens rejoined, running heads, page numbers and captions removed, and misreadings corrected, among them the stray letters a crease in the scan scatters through the words of some pages. Baillie Scott’s colour plates, drawings, plans and photographs, and the lists of them, are not reproduced.