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Show IJi HOME i nil i iimiiimjy' EDITOR time yon want room for a Morris-chair Morris-chair and one or two other chairs that are comfortable to sit in when reading. read-ing. There is an advantage in the corner cor-ner because you can have windows ori' two sides. It is better not only for light but for ventilation, and these' little rooms need provision for a constant con-stant change of air. Sometimes a good deal of business is transacted in i these little ofrice dens and they are- L just as appropriate for a smoking den 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 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. You may look at a thousand house plans and not find two alike. Still certain things must necessarily have a similarity of plan or construction. People are different and houses are being built to meet the requirements of individuals, and this has led to a great many different designs and arrangements ar-rangements of rooms. Fashion also has its influence, but it is pleasing to notice that fashion in house building of late has taken a very sensible turn. The most noticeable modern fashionable fash-ionable improvement is the large living liv-ing room. Housekeeping, like business, busi-ness, is becoming more complicated each year so that more is required of a house. Still we are simplifying some things, a fact that helps us to secure more room or better conveniences conven-iences in some other direction. A few years ago we felt obliged to build nnfj furnish two parlors. We called them front parlor and back parlor. A fancy set of furniture was necessary to make the first room presentable. Each piece must conform to the same pattern, both in woodwork and in covering cov-ering material. Some of these parlor par-lor sets were elaborate affairs that cost accordingly, while others were but cheap imitations of their wealthy neighbors. In all probability these secondary attempts to follow a set rule in house furnishing are what really called attention at-tention to the absurdity of the custom cus-tom and helped more than anything else to abolish it. And now we can build a house with a living room that is big enough to hold our friends in addition to the members of our fain-iiy fain-iiy and we can furnish it with just as many odd pieces of comfortable furniture as we want and the differ- I ! o ! j I l s J Bath I Be.dRm. tLWxe'cr I ll:0"XIJ0" jjcp I V Hall i I i i Second Floor Plan as they would be if fitted especially for that purpose. The size of this house is 29 feet in width by 35 feet from front to back. When the lot is wide enough a front like this is worth having, It gives you an opportunity to lay out good, , big, sensible rooms in the front part of the house where you have the light and the view of the -street. The old-fashioned old-fashioned plan of shutting up the ent pieces may vary in value as well as in design. Other requirements in house building build-ing call for ingenuity along the line of especial invention to meet certain requirements. For " instance, some men have certain office hours at home and find it profitable to fit up an office of-fice which they call a den. In this house plan the space back of the large living room is intended for this purpose. Some of these rooms are fitted with a solid door to shut out the disturbances of talking when the wife has callers in the big room. The den itself is 10 feet 6 front part of the house and living im two or three rooms down toward the back somewhere has gone by, it is to be hoped never to return. We build houses to live in with the greatest great-est possible comfort for the amount of money expended and we have learned better than to take up the most valuable space with rooms that are used but little. In the newer and better houses we push the stairway, clothes closets, bathroom, etc., to the rear as far as possible, while the front part downstairs down-stairs is used for every-day living purposes pur-poses and the best part of the second' floor is given over to the best and most comfortable bedrooms in the house. It is all right to have a bathroom bath-room fitted in between two bedrooms, as we have it in this plan, because-we because-we have the room, and the bathroom in this case comes over the kitchen so the water pipes and waste pipes may connect together in the most approved ap-proved manner. The large front bedroom is one of the most pleasant features in connection connec-tion with the house. There are times when some member of the family is confined to a sick room for days, possibly pos-sibly weeks, at a time. Nothing else is quite so cheering to a sick person or a convalescent as plenty of light. This plan is large enough to provide pro-vide a few extras in the way of storage stor-age closets. A bath tub is to be placed on the second floor. A great many of the larger modern houses have two bathrooms. It is not uncommon to-find to-find three. Bathrooms are luxuries that people appreciate more every year. Now that plumbing supplies are cheaper as well as better, bathrooms are not such expensive things ar.d we can afford to have more of them. It is a good, sensible fashion 10 hava I more than one bathroom. '' 1 1 lOWO" I B Living Rm. jHyTpT" I K'CTXIcYCy I III 1 ' Porch rO"X6'6" n - - si First Floor Plan Inches by 8 feet. One side Is left blank for took cases. The cases may be built in with the partition if so desired. There is room enough left for a roll top desk and a typewriter. Sometimes the two are combined, but as a general tiling men -irefer a typewriter on a separate desk or table built for the purpose. A dictionary stand on casters and a cabinet of drawers to hold ;-ipers, amphlets, etc., are necessary articles . f furniture in a room like this. A enter library table is all right if you have room for it. A den will bear considerable crowding. At the same j |