This view provides a glimpse of how the courtyard area would look when completed. The reflection pool occupies the center of the patio or open courtyard. Around the reflection pool would be a five-foot strip of garden. Notice the water tank on top of the roof. The house was to contain its own hot water, heating, electric lighting, refrigerating, vacuum cleaning and laundry plants—the latter with steam dryer rotary wringer—a milk and store room, root and wine cellar.

The chief feature of the house was to be the great living room. Eighteen by fifty-eight feet, and extending over two stories high, with rough redwood balconies extending around the second floor. Open rafters for ceiling and gables, and an immense stone fireplace, which would be fed daily with gigantic logs from the woods on the estate, would give a cheerful, homelike, though vast and medieval appearance.