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)ESIONS FOR VILLAS OR COUNTRY HOUSES. 289 <br />variation of !the size of the dining -room, so that there shall be <br />no interruption of the wall of the main body of the house, <br />Nvllere it juts into the library. <br />The first story will be 12 feet high, throughout the whole of <br />the first floor-, including the kitchen, since the projection of the <br />dining -hall partly into the wings requires it. But while the <br />chamber story in the main building is 11 feet high, in the <br />secondary building it is only 8 feet. The bed -room over the <br />dining -room; only runs to the main platform. The bed -rooms <br />over the kitcllen wings therefore are 8 feet high. <br />The window-dressings of a villa like this may be quite plain, <br />especially if, outside shutter blinds are used. But the simple <br />and massive dressin(rs often em- <br />played in this style, of which Fig. <br />' + 122 will convey a more accurate <br />idea, are in much better keepinL, <br />with the character of the archi- <br />tecture. An enriched Italian win- <br />dow-dressing is shown in Fig. <br />123.* If built of wood the exte- <br />rior should be of clear stuff', hori- <br />zontal -boarded, and finished in the <br />best manner, <br />d d The roofs of Italian buildings, <br />(Fig.IV2. Ibilian window—dressing plain.) having but little pitch, are Usually <br />The proportions observed in designing ♦vindows by Palladio, and the best of the <br />earlier Italian architects, are as follows:—The lbeinhtof the opening double that <br />I <br />of the width, and the breadth of the architrave or dressing one sixth of the width. <br />Windows on the second floor have the same breadth, but less height. <br />