Wttr- ,BY. ln building a house it pays to investigate inves-tigate the new things, both by reading and by observation. You can always find a new house that contains some of the fashionable ideas, ideas that are popular, the ideas that up-to-date architects like to work into their designs. de-signs. Some of these are very attractive attract-ive and add very much to the appearance appear-ance of a house, while others are simply sim-ply suitable to go with certain combinations. com-binations. The owner is the one most vitally interested; but a little advice from a successful architect goes a long way, and lasts a long time afterwards. after-wards. You don't build a house every year. : It pays to be careful. Long years of experience in building build-ing medium-priced houses has demonstrated demon-strated a few facts that everyone Mr. "William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On uccount of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without' doubt, the highest authority on ail these subjects. Address ail inquiries to William A. Radford. No. ITS West Jackson boulevard. Chicago,' 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. There are perhaps more square houses built in the Middle West than houses of any other style or design By "square houses" is meant houses with plain, straight sides and square corners, in which the width nearly or quite equals the length. "Rectilinear," perhaps, would be a more accurate term, but that does not convey an impression im-pression of the square appearance that such houses have. Economy in building and economy In heating, both have their Influence. Houses of the "square" type range from 22 by 28 feet to 30 by 36 feet in size, and they contain from six to eight rooms seldom less than six and seldom more than eight. They are built either full two stories, with an attic; or like this one, with some of the windows elevated above the eaves to admit light to the upper rooms. This particular house is one of six rooms, 26 feet wide and about 27 feet 6 inches from front tn rear Tt ta a I U 1 . DEDPOOM ft 6 UOmo-o' I I Vth (oj IitDEOOH MMU It O A -0 1 Bed Poow very economical house to build. It is all plain, straight work, except the dormer windows; and these are as plain as they can be and still look well. Such houses are so easily built 'that a great many of them are put up in country places without architectural plans; but that is, generally speaking, a mistake. Good working drawings are so cheap nowadays that no one can afford to take chances on haphazard haphaz-ard work. You can always recognize houses that have been built after the Ideas of a local carpenter, just the same as you can spot a suit of homemade home-made clothes by the amateur expression expres-sion that smiles at you when you see hem. They may contain the best of material put together in a good, solid way; but when the job is done, it lacks the stamp of finished excellence Second Floor Plan. should know. For the health of th family, you must have good drainage, sufficient ventilation, and an abundance abun-dance of sunshine. In the face of modern mod-ern invention, every new house should be piped for gas and for hot and cold water, and wired for electricity. Every Ev-ery house should contain provision for comfortable, easy heating; and every house should have a good bathroom. These things are essential, both for health and for comfort; to neglect them means to regret it as long as you live in the house. Other things 7 l not so important, and still desirable will suggest themselves, and may be adopted or rejected according to tho size of the house and (he expense a person feels justilied in going Into-but Into-but the demands of health and coin-fort coin-fort come first. Ihat only years of experience in cutting cut-ting and fitting can give. It is a mistake mis-take to take chances on amateur talent tal-ent when you can secure expert advice ad-vice and experience for a few dollars. - In this house, what would otherwise be a very plain living room, is made attractive by a fashionable window-seat window-seat and a triple casement window in the front part of the room. There are variety of these windows to choose irom. Some are hinged at the side so that the sash may be opened inward like a door; in others, the sash is piv-ated piv-ated in the center, at top and bottom; some are hinged at the lop; and still j other designs are hinged at: the side Kitchen Living KaDMT" tz-o'mi'o' i' " PlNJNCEaOfA r I 1 PtocCM ' tL9 ij ii First Floor Plan. ro as to 0en outward. Where the sash swing out. the fly screens are fitted on the inside, the advantage claimed being that you can hang curtains cur-tains in any way you want them, and not have them disturbed by opening and shutting the windows. Because such windows are becoming popular. It is only natural to suppose that women wo-men like them. They certainly produce pro-duce a stylish effect, and that goes a long way. i