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IDESIGNS FOR VILLAS OR COUNTRY HOUSES. 287 dows of Ithe drawing -room and library reach the floor, so as to afford an easy access to this arcade. Avco moDATION. The arrangement of this villa exhibits a little contrivance to get the utmost from a limited space. It Will, therefere, need some explanation. Entering the large door in the tower or campanile which— forms hichforms the porch (9 feet square), see Fig. 119, we come to the vestibule, 9 by 9 feet. The stair, which is placed here, com- mences at a, and, as it rises, enters the tower (as shown in the second ,floor plan). On the right side of the vestibule is a door opening into a handsome parlor or drawing -room, 18 by 24 feet, witha bay -window in characteristic style. Directly beyond the vestibule is a pretty dining -hall, 16 by 21 feet. This back hall will be a very airy and agreeable dining apartment in summer,* and it may be rendered essen- tially iprivate, by closing the door in the vestibule, at a, when persons chancing to arrive during dinner can be shown into the dining -room, or library, or to the second story, without passing through the hall. A china -closet and a pantry are connected with this dining -room. We have purposely cut off the direct communication with the kitchen, in order that the passage, e, should stop sounds and smells. But a large closet, resembling a sideboard, might be built at L, with a door at the back, opening into the kitchen, through which the dislies might, to save trouble, be passed into the dining -hall. Tlie library. is 18 feet square, and communicates with both dining -hall and drawing -room. I *;It is supposed to be heated by a furnace in winter, or a flue can be introduced in the wall between it and the kitchen, at b.