Evening star., 1940-09-07
1000 Persons
Visit Eighth
Star Home
BriurcIiff Dwelling
Enters Second Week
Of Exhibit Tomorrow
By MARGARET NOVEL;.

Dy
More than 1000 persons already
have visited lie eighth Silver Star
Home of the year, located at 5123
Macomb street NV, in Briarcliff
which tomorrow will enter the Sec
ond week of its exhibition period.
This house will remain open to the
public through Sunday, Septem-
ber %.
Built by Edward R. Carr promi-
nent ltor-developer, this spacious
Star home has a beautiful setting
in the wooded, new Briarcliff sec
ton. The house was especially de-
signed for the Sloping lot by Kirk
huff & Baglcy. The rooms are
large, and windows are so designed
as to command views of the attrac-
tive community.
This home may be reached by
driving out Massachusetts, avenue to
Nebraska avenue. Proceed west on
Nebraska avenue into Loughborough
road and follow that street to Ma
comb street. Turn left on Macomb
about two blocks to the property.
High Above Street.
The seven-room and three-bath
Briarcliff house was approved by
the Silver Star Homes Committee,
a group Of five housing experts who
inspected it thoroughly. James S.
Taylor of the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration is chairman of the
committee. Other members are
Fred A. Smith, president of the
Washington Real Estate Board;
Irwin S. Porter, prominent archi-
tect: Edwin H. Rosengarten, build
er, and John Nolen. jr., director of
planning of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
There is delightful coming
home" feeling as you 60 up the
stone steps to the new Star house.
AS autumn approaches this will be
more and more true with huge,
bright colored oak trees to shelter
the house, which is situated high
enough above the street to avoid all
sight and noise of traffic.
This Colonial-type house has a
deep slanting roof which extends
out over the front porch, making it
very comfortable looking, and all
the way through the house you have
the feeling that it was individually
designed for the location it occu-
pies, with the happiness of the
owners the motivating force.
The house is large and inviting
and there will pe no need to use
scaled-down furniture Joan Haley
has given the house ancestry and life
with collection of fine old furniture
and accessories. She has used ma
hogany in the living and dining
rooms in period all the way from
Sheraton to Victorian. but with a
clever touch of colo, and arrange
ment. Large Empire chests are good
in proportion, but there is no deco
rative detail in the house that de-
mands furnishing in antique. The
varied window openings the walls in
fiat color and the clean, sweeping
lines, free of adornment, would be
equally attractive in modern dress.
Living Room Occupies Wing.
The living room, which occupies
q whole wing of the house, is beau
tifully designed. It's big window,
which looks out into trees and hill
tops, is a great feature. There is
dignity to the room with no loss of
personal appeal. One may imagine
the room as background for lovely
ladies in evening clothes, or with
two or three children at twilight,
reading stories by the fire The walls
of this room, the hail, which is a
step higher, and the dining room
are all finished in a lively turquoise
color which is perfect foil for crys-
tai, silver, old mahogany, white and
the rich colors of old chintz and
damask.
The small library, just across the
hall, is furnished in lovely old pine
pieces, and made bright and shining
with blue and white checked ging-
ham slip covers, turkey-red pillows
in the seats of old Windsor chairs,
and red, white and blue striped cur
tains at the. windows. A fine old
table holds books and magazines, a
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