American Builder Volume 29 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...in the creation of a very prominent arrangement of ceiling beams and wall ornamentations. Fountain and Counter of Establishment. The Walls Are Covered with Bark Set in Upright Sections While the Celling Is of Modified Chapel Design and Well Suited for Heavy Beams and Braces. The ceiling is of modified chapel design, and is therefore especially well suited to the heavy handling of beams and braces here employed. A very interesting feature of the rear serving room is a large fourin-one fireplace. Occupying the exact center of this room, this exceptionally massive feature, with its square base, deep mantel-shelf and square chimney, is designed with an open firehearth in each of its four sides; and each fireplace being intended for actual use. either separately or in group, the feature, moreover, is both decorative and very practical. The base, it will be observed, is constructed of rough stone, and the large chimney is outwardly surfaced with bark-intact logs, crossed at the corners in logcabin fashion, and laid in white mortar, while the mantel-shelf consists of four adz-hewn timbers, halved together at the corners. The wood used for carrying out this interior decorative scheme, including logs, shakes, bark and other timbers, consists of California redwood exclusively, the natural colors of which are particularly conducive to creating a very attractive effect. The general appearance is naturally rusic; yet, because the scheme is so well handled, this suggestion of rusticity in no way seems either grotesque or overdone. The rooms are also unusually interesting in respect to various details. From the ceiling domes, for instance, as well as' from the side bracket ornamentations, are suspended many lantern-like lighting fixtures, created of hammered copper and am...