Identifier: livablehouseitsg01dean (find matches)
Title: The livable house, its garden
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Dean, Ruth. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Moffat, Yard and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t be built where they clingprecariously to steep hillsides or sit uneasily on inadequate andspecially created plateaux; an informal, picturesque style of archi-tecture can be fitted comfortably into the uneven surfaces of hill-sides; the classic house with its regular lines and balanced planshould find a site on a level or gently rolling sweep of ground.The important point is that house and land be considered together. But whatever the kind of house, and whether or not it suit itsparticular piece of property, it is only sensible to place it so thatthe main living rooms catch the greatest amount of sunlight andsummer breezes, and avoid dour shade and winter winds. Thelatter consideration works out almost automatically, because sum-mer winds are usuallv south winds, and those of winter, north; sothat the house which benefits by summer breezes thereby turnsits back to the north. Moreover, the question of sunlight does not (2) / / ^^^ G a d ^ o -^ ^ :^ w Ph ^ o o ^ KD ^ r-i o w O ?1 Oq J5
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(3) The Livable House conflict with this consideration because, generally speaking, thesouth and east offer the greatest amount of desirable light. It fol-lows that a house on the south or west side of a street would haveto face toward the rear or side of its lot in order to capture amaximum of light and air; but this is not the heretic suggestionit would have been considered in the days when back doors wereunfeignedly back doors and, as such, neglected to the point ofugliness. Nowadays a service court, walled or hedged roundabout, has its own charm, and is very often on the street side ofthe house in order to leave the living rooms free to face a fineview or a flower garden. Which moves the fifth point,—the pos-sible garden site, up to second place, and I am not sure but thatit deserves an earlier consideration than my efforts to treat it im-partially first accorded it. Generally speaking, a southern or southwestern exposure is bestfor the flower garden—and, if the house has been

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