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A CRAFTSMAN BUNGALOW: CRAFTSMAN
HOUSE SERIES OF 1905, NUMBER III
already the spring feeling, caused by the return ot
longer days and a warmer sun, is abroad over the world,
the Craftsman House for March is presented in the
form of a bungalow.
   This is a structure of field stones set at random, and,
with their weather stains and accretions, offering pleas-
ing variations of color. It is provided with large chimneys-and wide
verandas: the latter arranged to front a lake and to have a southern
and western exposure; the building itself facing the northwest. Of
the two wings the eastern, containing the bedrooms, extends into the
wooded portion of the land, in order to assure protection and coolness;
while the western wing reaches out upon the clearing toward the lake.
   The ground space occupied by the Bungalow is greater than that
specified for many of the preceding Craftsman Houses, since the
item, "cost of land," in this case, is not the first to be considered.
The
eastern wing has a frontage of sixty-four, and the western of forty-
four feet, the verandas showing a width respectively of twelve and
ten feet.
   The drawings, therefore, display a long, low structure which is
hospitable in aspect and grateful to the color sense. The walls of the
bungalow, previously described, are topped by an overhanging roof
covered with spruce shingles, which have been dipped in oil to pro-
duce a rich, warm color, and are laid wide to the weather.
   The entrance steps are of split cobbles laid in cement, as is also
the floor of the verandas, the columns of which are boles of trees,
trimmed not too smoothly, and left with occasional short limbs, in
order to afford conveniences for the suspension of fishing tackle and
other implements.
HE Interior is divided into a living room, a kitchen, and three
      bedrooms. The first of these, as is demanded in all similar
      buildings, is a large, comfortably arranged space; its dimen-
sions being eighteen by eighteen feet. Its ceiling is traversed by a
great beam at the angle of the wall, with smaller ones upon either
side and running at right angles to it, (see plan); all these timbers be-
ing rough hewn, and having one side flat, on which to rest the ceiling
boards, and their ends squared, so as to provide good joints.
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