The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-11-23
AMERICAN HOMES.
OUR CLIMATE TO BE CONSIDERED
WHEN WE BUILD.

Some Things which We Must Do with
out-Trees and wall vines-Oid Country
Looaiity-style.
1t is amusing TO hear q man or woman who
has crossed the ocean ridicule our country
dwelling houses and compare them with the
picturesqueness of the English cottage, of
the German farmhouse tho vine-grown walls
tho windows projecting from the roofs, the
low height, the shadow, the quiet tone about
thNm and the irregular form. They would
give all the staring, formal villas of this
country for one little ivy-grown or red-roofed
cottage In an English hawthorn lane, or a
green German valley. But experience teaches
that n country's architecture Is, to a large
degree, a necessary fruit and outcome of its
circumstances. We have peculiar and diff
cult climate here and must, first of all, CON
slider it in our building There Is the heat of
the tropics in the summer, and the almost
Arctic cold In the winter. We cannot have
low houses here, for the rooms would be in
tolerable in summer. Low, sharp-gabled
cottages, with dormer windows in the roof,
are, no doubt, picturesque, but they mean
hot chambers under the roof and low, close
sitting rooms. Even IL an air chamber be
secured between the roof and the bed room,
- -. WY uPpo, ,o,is' =, 'uon inSn.s as we
W. no"i "ouu po al,nvsv uilenuulnoie.
80 .ia -, nv nous,S nisn oeowecn noors
roof
-, i'i'S AMI ALL ViNhS
lnen announcer element OF the picturesque is
.ne neep snaue ana tncR vines oVerciamber-
ing ene Walls Du1 our experience SHOWS that
sun anu an are iiuispehsspie ior healtn IN
house. anu we are competed more ana more
70 Pl'i,,C oiees az i't.le Instance securing
haao y p'',sas VI ns,looi ON, anu aiiowins
srate use f wall viras ~ of co,,,.s, ,,o,.,;.t~a
undor tbosa corditiors h,,t a,,, o-oass;,.a
lrarny with Wv 81, ,roo,,a,,, h,oo,,. insoo.,
and increases lnmnnoss Tho cc,s,a,,t liz
b;litv 40 r,olora ~ r,,,,..o ,,,o,ieos ~, -,
,,odes ~ hnild;n,, and c,,,,,,a,s -, -, -.
s,,,, a,,d o;r I,,dooa !. LII -. .r.,s.I -.
a., Eno,ond +hat al tha oo,,rt,.,- te,,ra. Nv,
h,iIt much moro 4, tha A,,,aroa,, -. E.o,sah
civic than forn,or,s ,,,ith air,, oho,,,sa'.s
high storias and y,,,cn onenress 20 tha s,,,,
and s,,n,,oo,. haIcorios fo,. shado '
The reo,,l,r Form or EngIish bo,,sos o. .
historical faat,,re a ,es,lt of o,,o,vth IA o.
neors here sornetimes Ivhare nm old co,,nt,s,,
seat has beon enlarged and renodeled and
Is wonderfully attractive 7 live IN s,,ch n
house. and while T enjoy n and nm nroud of
Re- I must confess that.jt Is exceedingiv neon
venient II raouires ocraat' o,-no,,sa =, th,
care LIGHTING ,varnin9 and drainooo THO
cheapest of ali bopees lie the eo,,a,o bo,,so a,d
ne most naonle build with small means IN th;s
country thew naturally adont tbis or como
modification of This form Tbese ola aud H.
,epular Enclisb villas n should he roren,.
beyed have become nnisopces under noda,.n
spitarv ideas Tboi,. drainage is exacrahIa
and thew are often nests Of tvnboid fever
nn.rN.op r,,u y,nsr rur,,c
r ana. -.
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