New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
G. Country-Here's an Attractive House Design
Window Placing Counts Much
In a. Well Designed Home
Often the Exterior Attractiveness of a House !,
Spoiled When They Are Poorly Proportional
or Not in Proper Place, Declares Expert

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are useful, but detracting from y! ~
general appearance Of the bonas sas
Treated with understanding. bav ~
dows can be made to help out rrsss,-
in the design. sA'
Single story bay windows are es,;...
TO handle satisfactorily. Such hss
can be simply little projection ~ :.
tending to the window sill line ~ =.
may reach down TO the hoor. In ~.
former case, the bay requires
foundation, as it is merely hur,. ~.
from the wall Of the building H..
there should always be some soy. -
support, such as brackets. Where n.
bay extends to the floor a foundasas
is required. The trick to accomul;ss
in bay is to make it look properls
attached to the building; that ;s :.
successful bay looks as if it eres
there, while the unsuccessful one has,
detached appearance, much as if buI,
at some later period One Of the b..
ways to make the bay an integral part
of the building is to build it of liz
same material as the facade from whieb
it springs. If the house is covered
with clapboards painted white, bavs
you bay white also; if shingles con-
pose the exterior finish of the hons.
use a shingled bay. Nothing is better
for plaster-covered house than
plaster-covered bay. Of course. the
clever designer often varies his ma.
tcrials and follows no definite rules !,
this regard. Frequently white wooden
bays look most attractive on a plastsy
house, but it requires considerable
skill to handle them in this way.
Some bays are square and Others N,
three sided. It makes no great differ.
ence in the design which kind is e.
iected, though in some types Of ARCH.
lecture, square ones are more Otter
used. In the English style little square
bays extending down to the window
sill height are frequently used with
good effect. They seem to be particu.
, larry suitable for easements, which
prevail in English houses. Both square
and three-sided bays, with easements
or double-hung windows, are now on
the market in complete form, including
frames, holdings and brackets. This
stock material is a welcome advantage
to those who build without competent
architectural advice, for it is of cor.
rect proportions and form and should
mean q gradual improvement of even
the most unpretentious of our homes.
Arrangements Means Much
In other types of houses bay win.
dow the full width Of the room pro.
jects from the building in the form
of wing. This is frequently the case
in dining room, or as a sunparlor
alcove off the living room. In these
cases the bay usually contains a con.
tinuous row of windows or easements
and Is attractive in appearance outside
as we'll as in.
Two-story bays are hard to treat 50
as to avoid detched appearance, but
1t can be done satisfactorily by ex.
tending the main roof out over the
bay Or by covering it with gable
projecting from the main roof. Some
are so slight in projection and hug
the facade SO closely that they do not
look detached. Two-story bays are
made by superimposing two of the reg.
uiar stock one-story bays.
In the Middle West-in what is COM
ing TO be known as the Western type
of house-a clever substitute for bay
windows is that of grouping windows
at the corner of a room Thus the in
terror Of the room presents the ap-
pearance of bay, and the exterior
effect is good when the corner group
is properly designed. The actual cor
ner OF the building should be made
wider and heavier than the mullions
between the windows, in order to get q
good exterior effect, otherwise the cor.
ner would look weak, much as though
1t could not support the weight Of
wall and roof above.