Show A DWELLING AT A COST OF 2700 Here ja il a Schedule Showing the Actual Market Prices You will have to Pay for M Materials Millwork Flooring and Finish Finishing Finishing ing lumber Building paper pipe gutter anti and sash weights 2166 2156 Hardware Hot a i Heating plant Painting material Plumbing estimate L Lumber ber Buffet and mantel Excavation masonry o and plastering Labor Total The prices quoted above are tre for material F O 0 B factory With freight added the material can be furnished and the house built for Chicago and vicinity Pittsburg Pa and vicin vicinity vicinity ity ew York and V St Louis Mo and vicin vicinity vicinity ity Portland Me and corn com common cornmon mon points in New England HIS house is en entirely rely THIS T with shingles on the exterior excepting for the small dormer window in the roof ov over r the porch It will wiD be well weIl to have this dor dormer dormer mer entirely of smooth pine The shin shingles shingles should be butted at the corners of building without using corner boards You can an imagine the effect if the shingles are stained gray and the dormer trimmings and sash are aU all painted cream white With brIck chimneys s and curtains at the windows the appearance will be remarkably pleasing The plan shown in this house is not an unusual one although it has several points out of the conventional It is really nothing more nor ICs than a rectangular rectangular angular plan with a hall hail in the center and rooms on both sides a type that has been handed down from the days of our Colonial ancestors and has always proven a judicious one The veranda however is not like the ordinary porch on a Colonial house as it is placed at atone atone one side and is entered only from the through glass doors This makes of the veranda a pr private outdoor which may be screened in inthe in inthe the summer and glazed in the winter Of course one could build steps from the main entrance steps up to the veran veranda veranda da floor if one desired to do so By this arrangement though the privacy of the porch would be disturbed Three cement steps lead to a broad cem cement t terrace at the front entrance The entrance is recessed under a little archway The vestibule is entered through a glass door with side lights I 1 rom the vestibule three steps lead up to the main floor level With the living room opening on on m side and the din on the opposite a very pretty retty jew is obtained from the hall It is is preferable to case these openings up like ordinary wide doorways although if preferred can be inserted The mantel in the is large and is composed entirely of b brick ck with the exception of the wood shelf You will note that there is communication tion from the kitchen to the front door by means of a doorway beside the stairs in the hall haiL This is a great improve improvement m ment t on the many plans which require one to walk through the to get from the kitchen to the entrance The rear entrance is down under the main and opens on the small rear porch The kitchen and pantry have been designed to attain the utmost of convenience with a L of ex exertion exertion on the part of the housekeeper The pantry is is amply large to hold food supplies for a family of fifteen or more As this house is the most expensive of the three it is more liberally endowed with cupboards and cabinets than the others With shelves and in inthe inthe the pantry a china cabinet in the sent po p r I poI S L Lui i I t N I i 1 i W 4 I i and a pretty little buffet in inthe inthe the all of h are arc in included included in the price one will vill have a home that is is quite as ai choice as though it cost three times as much The second floor lays out very nicely as a scheme with fathers and mothers room over the a servants room over the kitchen and and two other rooms for the balance of the family The bedroom over the living room is really a double bedroom that ic icI OO C Cr CJ r J I L PAIIT i liVING U lOOM z Ei 14 x 10 rf Itt I t o E LOCK tl J 1 k i HALt HALL HALtI I OM OMIt JJ Li I It In Inu LI 4 v a 0 u 1 1413 00 i IACri is it if is as large as an ordinary sized bedroom Those families who re ic guire five bedrooms could partition it into two Like other houses of this se series series ries ries great care has been g given en to the construction as well as the design in order to produce a house that would be as near perfection as it is possible to obtain with the smallest expenditure of money This house will prove very attractive a suburban site or i it would make a comfortable modern modem farmhouse It can be placed with the broad side toward the street or with one end toward the street according to the character of the building site |