Rita Boutros
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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Through the Looking Glass · Coffee Break Collection 026 - It's a Small World - Various · 23 Jul 2026
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Setting of house on sight
The aspects possible for the chief rooms with respect to view, prevailing winds, contour of sight, etc need careful thought.
As to what are the best aspects for various rooms, he is a bold man who will lay down dogmatic rules, and I certainly lack the needful courage.
It is generally held that southeast is the best outlook for the garden front.
on which will be the principal living rooms.
An encounter with an architect of large experience in domestic work, however, is worthy of record.
He habitually designs houses for his clients with a view to securing the maximum of sunshine in the living rooms, but does so in obedience to what he regards as a popular delusion.
For himself he prefers a north aspect and will design his own home on these lines.
He is likely, however, to find himself with few supporters.
So much for the general points which need to be considered before even a site is purchased.
They are set out here with the express purpose of showing that expert advice is essential to the layman from the very inception of the idea of building.
I know many cases where a client, captivated by the natural beauties of a sight,
Has incontinently bought it, allured perhaps by a pleasant slope on which trees make a sunlit tracery.
An examination of it in the cold light of the nine points of the law discussed above
has then proved that its practical disadvantages so far outweighed its native charms as to involve its abandonment, with consequent disappointment and loss of time and money.
I come now to the all important question of the house, its planning, its architectural treatment, and its setting.
Mr Rudyard Kipling has said
There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, and every single one of them is right.
The same is exactly true of the making of houses.
and it would be wholly futile to discuss the question on vague and general lines.
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