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The maple cabinets are very pleasing. The adjacent butler's pantry leads to the stunning dining room.

Beginningin 1906, many Greene&Grecne cabinets, particularly in butler's pantries, were constructed with sliding rather than swinging doors, a response to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, to prevent dishes from falling to the floor when the shaking started.

The Smallest Room

White. White walls. White floors. White fixtures. White, everywhere white. That is a reasonable description of most bathrooms 100 years ago. The Greenes didn't do a lot to change that situation. Clients expected white, the color of clean. What the Greenes were able to do, however, was to unify the bathroom with the rest of the house.

Modern van it ies weren't yet com mon but every bath had a medicine cabinet. Rather than sterile, featureless models, Charlesand Henry incorporated custom-made cabinets that were clearly integrated with the houses' architectural trim.

The truly grand Robert Blacker house has a medicine cabinet and two stained glass windows integrated to become a work ofart. It isa

In the Kitchen

As it was in 1906. Built before the ultimate bungalows, the DeForest house was modest, yet the small kitchen contained elegant details.

All in a row. Fhe DeForest pantry cabinets featured styli/ed board-and-batten doors, and the numerous exposed screw heads are all aligned in the direction of the wood grain.

On the way to the dining room. The Gamble house butler's pantry, between the kitc hen and dining room, features floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall cabinets.

Maple masterpiece. The story is told that Mary Gamble never set foot in her kitchen, yet the cabinets are as nic e as any in the house.

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