A beautiful 1940 home from outside Darien, Connecticut

ARCHITECT EDWARD G. WALLACE designed the home, and Roy Lester & Son built it. The plot, which foots a tree-covered rocky ridge, embraces more than an acre. 

The stone of the front is complemented by the stone fence which curves around to the rear of the playyard, tying it almost naturally to the rocky slope. Sides and garage wing are cedar-shingled. The roof is black slate. White-painted walls contrast not too radically with the natural gray stone and slate-gray shutters. 

Of course, the recreation area isn't only for the children. It's a natural, in fact, for adults' lawn games, for tea tables under the oaks, for garden parties and picnics, and for almost anything a large, shaded lawn is good for. Flagstone walks lead from road to entrance, garage, and side entrance. 

THE living-room, down two steps from the hall, gains a cheery demeanor by way of four windows and two doors for sunshine and air delivery, pale yellow walls broken by mahogany trim, and a fireplace for winter cheer. 

On down the hall is the well-stocked, lux-urious bookroom or call it a den, if yoti like the fellow who drew the plans did! Upstairs, the guest is housed in the bedroom facing the road. Down one step is the children's room with its own hall and bathroom, blackboards (to save walls!) for writing ana drawing, and plenty of storage-drawer space exclusively for youngsters. 

The kitchen, larger than the conventional, faces the main road; and of course it has modern built-in cabinets and cupboards, up-to-date equipment and service fixtures, formica-covered work counters, and so on down to a white-and-black rubber-tiled floor.