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Show JgI ' EDITOR Mr. Viuiam 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 account of his wide experience expe-rience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, Manufac-turer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to "William A. Radford, No. 194 Fifth Ave., Chicago, 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. suited to the builder's demands rathet than to the lot and its surroundings. Houses of this sort usually have several sev-eral dark rooms and often are not well-ventilated. In a great many case they are not much better than apartments. apart-ments. Of course this difficulty might be avoided by making one fairly large x lot of two small ones, but frequently the builder does not feel that he can afford a second lot, and he often further fur-ther objects to the keeping of a large lawn. But to the normal man the lawn is the chief joy of the home. The alternative usually is to adapt the house to the lot, to sacrifice some desired feature of the interior arrangement, arrange-ment, or even a room or two, in order to attain the really essential light and air. Now, the house here shown 13 adapted to a lot of small size, and yet there will be plenty of room for light and air. It is especially suited for a west frontage, giving the sunshine to all the bedrooms and shade to the living liv-ing room, the dining room, and the kitchen. And every housewife will agree that a shady kitchen is one of Although the house here shown is not large, being 28 feet wide and 48 feet, 6 inches long, it gives the observer ob-server the impression that it is large. It is an excellent type of residence for a city in which the lots average 50 feet, a size that will admit of room for a lawn and plenty of space for light and air. A house thus set out amid pleasant surroundings will have all the good points of its design fully appreciated and displayed to the best advantage. The tendency in the city is toward crowding, on account of the increasing value of land, of course. This is to be regretted, because when lots are too narrow houses cannot be shown to good advantage no matter what the excellence and artistic quali- the greatest comforts imaginable. This is a frame cottage, or bungalow,, although the exterior might be treated with' rough boards and stained, or cement ce-ment plaster might be used. It all depends where the house is to be built as to the exterior finish. The front porch is 25 by 6 feet, 6 inches. Entering Enter-ing the house you pass into a vestibule' which opens into the living room and also into the front bedroom. The bedroms, of which there are three, are 12 by 10 in size. The living room is 14 feet, 6 inches by 14 feet, and the dining room is two feet narrower. The kitchen has a length of 14 feet, 6 inches and a breadth of 11 feet. Porch I Cu I PT1 ' ' ' d Bed Rm I Kitchen I 14-XH'O- fc I gaFl 5i BedRm. I Gantry z IX'0'XIO;0" 1 to-xs'o-' Ca se. 1L 3 H ' 1 Dining Rm. 4B Bed Rm. Living Rm. Porch tm m -J L. Floor Plan. ties of their design may be. Fifty-foot Fifty-foot lots are large enough to meet most builders' requirements, but in many cities, as in Chicago, for instance, in-stance, the rule is 25 feet. This disadvantage disad-vantage is often made greater by the owner's insistence on a very large house, or by an arrangement of the rooms that requires that the building be wide. Too often the residence is |
