| Show A 2600 HOUSE An Ingenious Arrangement of Hulls Mated It Unusually Convenient Tho floor plans given herewith are from I H Gibsons Fifty Convenient Houses Thomas Y Crowell E Co New York Both sitting room and parlor are in front The dining room is placed immediately in thr rear of lie sitti room Thus we have twr rooms in front and two in the rear This is practically a square house The old l habit has been to place the stairway along one sidf of the parlor in tho hall which served as n passageway from the front to ihs rooms immediately im-mediately in the rear This distribution ol halls is what has thrown the sitting room back of tho parlor r o of cf r Kllc cq B YNINC ti4136 9ylt IlJLJ Iu ° ar ° i Ft4 eP HRLL I4t xlp GROUND FLOOR In the plan here given the change has been made so that the hall has relatively the same position that had the sitting room in the past though it is by no means as large It is essentially es-sentially a stair hall and incidentally a passage pas-sage As placed we may enter it from the i parlor sitting room dining room or kitchen Its position is central There are two doors between this stair hall and the kitchen The central position of the stairway has other advantages than those just stated It makes long halls on the second floor entirely unnecessary unne-cessary As will be seen by looking at the floor plan it gives two good bedrooms in front The dining room is immediately in the rear of the sitting room There may be sliding doors connecting these two rooms One door three and a half feet wide usually makes a sufficiently suf-ficiently largo opening for the dining room connection There are sliding doors between the parlor and sitting room and dining room and sitting room as shown The kitchen has the advantage of a certain amount of isolation isola-tion from the rest of the house for the reason that there are two doors between itand any other room The pantries are arranged with reference to their most convenient ufee In il4ao ° o 7 amber 14x1 r 6 ir i o C b r a r i ls3 SECOND STORY the kitchen pantry thero are places for a refrigerator re-frigerator flour bin bread board and cup board The dining room pantry is a china closet with glass doors above and closed doors below The doors connecting the dining room pantry or passage should be hung on double spring hinges On tho second floor there is a hal about fourteen feet long from which we pass tc two bedrooms in front two in tho rear the bathroom und tho store closet Each room is independent They may bo connected one with the other as family necessities suggest The store closet is accessible from the hall as such closet should be This makes it available availa-ble from any of the rooms The bathroom is directly over the kitchen The cost of the house is about 2000 A Graceful Writing Table I r Q Q t l wv i WRITING TABLE Hero is a suggestion of a ladys writing table pure and simple Tho principal feature feat-ure of the thing is the inclosing by means of a fan of tho stationary cabinet on the tabletop table-top This elegant bijou contrivance forms a refreshing alternative to the oft repeated curtain element now so commonly used as a recess dust excluder The oblong panel just above might consist of a Bartolozzi tinted print framed in by 3 broad band of silk or plush This class of treatment is now Iotho rage and makes a welcome change from the beveled glass plate so frequently resorted re-sorted to for this purpose |
