Show CHOICE OF STYLES IS LARGE in structural decoration there la Is hardly a limit to the many in vogue structural decoration may best be explained by considering one well known example of it the elizabethan most picturesque and elaborate of th tho 0 the styles now popularly imitated in the real elizabethan the wooden framework was made of great trees solid oak squared off and mortised morti sed together solidly if the tree had been curved the beam was cured and the beam was as thick as tile the wall itself and appeared on the inside as well as tile me outside of the house the cement was filled in between these great beams and the dark wood in contrast with the stucco filling made tho the decoration of the house a truly honest and structural kind of ornament which we imitate by fastening thin planks over and across our elizabethan dwellings our own colonial dwellings had bad their charm too the charm of perfect simplicity and excellent proportion liko like the get gentlemen who built them they are dignified lit fied reliable honest the bungalow Is both simple in line and structural in decoration but too often squatty in proportion and if unmodified la Is apt to be a most uncomfortable dwelling for this climate of extremes having been developed to its present form where there was no heat in summer and no cold in winter A new type of 0 house has arisen of late calling itself crafts mans hou houses ies it Is an attempt to adapt to modern conditions all the good points in all tho the named and very often the attempt Is successful atia and the result belonging to no style la Is quaife happy |