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Show This Attractive Seven-Room Home Has Excellent Room Arrangement x --" f.. . '"w - - f'--v'-N-;v i . -ss... w 3 . . v... v .a - - - I ; r - l. I t - - i 3 fie? p Fr: "fnir Vii Eir-ir - riTibi 1 1 - . , ,4 t l U fv , K, j By W. A. RADFORD Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to practical home building, for the readers read-ers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as editor, author and manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. sub-jects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 1827 Prairie avenue, Chicago, 111., and only inclose two-cent stamp for reply. The picture of the home building design shown herewith should arrest the eye of everyone who intends to build a home. One can look at many home building designs before finding one which Is more at'tractive from the exterior and which has a better room arrangement than this shingled house. There are a great many features to this home which recommend it. The glassed in vestibule, the triple window In the living room and the sunny light room adjoining on the first floor are all excellent features. The house is 22 feet wide exclusive of the sun room and 26 feet deep, but compressed into this small area are the living room 12 feet 6 inches by j B I DWINSPOOM Kjlll M"i o ir6"IE'&" I o First Floor Plan. 21 feet and an open fireplace at one end of the living room, a dining room 11 feet 6 Inches by 12 feet G inches, which is connected with the living room with a double cased opening thereby adding spaciousness; the kitchen 9 feet by 7 feet 6 inches. Opening off the living room the sun parlor is connected with It by double dou-ble french doors. The sun room is 7 feet 6 inches by 11 feet, which In reality makes the living room 2SV4 feet long. The stair leading to the second floor opens out of one end of the living room and Into a central hall on the second floor. Off this hall are three bedrooms and a bathroom. Each of Fp Bed Room ULI T' TO 1 Clo Iclo I Hail (1 n ' J Bed Room fe) Room 3 I0'0I2'6" I0-0XI2'6" Second Floor Plan. the bedroooms is a corner room which is an advantage and all are of good size. It will be noted by the floor plan that each bedroom has a large closet and the entrance doors to the bedrooms bed-rooms are so located that the bathroom bath-room is handy. The house is set on a concrete foundation. foun-dation. The only other type of masonry mason-ry being used is for the two steps to tb enclosed vestibule which has a brick floor, and the outside fireplace chimney which is also brick. The walls of the house are shingled. There Is a basement of the same dimensions as the house itself which provides plenty of space for the heating plant, fuel storage, vegetable storage and other storage. Because of its rather simple design outside of the broken roof line, this home could be built at a very reasonable reason-able price. It will provide room for a good sized family but does not require re-quire a large investment in a lot to accommodate it In the illustration there Is shown a garage of the same architectural design at the rear. Tularemia, popularly know as rabbit rab-bit fever, killed 20 people in the Dnlt-ed Dnlt-ed States last year and infected 420 persons. |