1940. Architect Theodore Whitehead Davis, builder Trowbridge & Davis, of Port Washington, New York

NOTE IN the floor plans for this home how Architect Theodore Whitehead Davis lets the family live at the back of the house to have the joy of the lovely wooded slope there, and how he has segregated the service portion of the home and, to conserve plumbing, put the bathroom in the front. Large mullioned windows on the first floor face the rear view, and the small porch is placed so that it does not interfere with this view. The fireplace wall of the living-room is paneled in honey-color, waxed pine; walls are papered in aqua color. The dining-room is in pale yellow, with paper above a chair rail. Floor beams are supported on steel beams at each side of the stairwell, making for economy and strength. The short driveway serves both the kitchen door and the combination entrance hall and storm-vestibule. And this vestibule, incidentally, boasts a large coat closet.

Upstairs we find large linen closets at the head of the stairs, and in the smaller bedroom, a bunk. Both the other bedrooms are of good size, with fine closets, and all are conveniently adjacent to the bathroom. In the basement, the laundry room and heating room are together underneath the living-room, leaving the big space under the diningroom and kitchen free for a light and dry game room for the lower grade line per- mits large steel sash in the rear.

Upkeep will be simple, for the gambrel roof and the front stonework reduce the area of outside painted walls. The exterior has a color scheme of dark-brown wood shingles, white wood walls, brick chimney, and trim; with dark Indian-red shutters and front door. The home was built by Trowbridge & Davis, of Port Washington, New York, and its plan will merit study.