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Show there is a vesuuuie tiiat is large enough to hold overcoats, hats, rub bers, umbrellas, and such truck thai is very much in the way in a room that is used for any other purpose. Then, as you leave the vestibule you enter a very light, pleasant reception hall that is just right for a musio room. You place the piano in the bow window where you have light on both sides. The windows are placed high enough to let the light in over the piano and in the center and over a music rack at the left hand side and a lamp table at the right. An arrangement ar-rangement of this kind not only makes ' 1 fl "C'k-oov J Mr. William A. Radford will answer nuestiona and give advice FREE OF COST on ail subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers 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. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford. No. ITS West Jackson boulevard, Chicago, 111., and only nclose two-cent stamp for reply. A very neat seven-room suburban home is illustrated in this plan. Of course, one of the rooms upstairs is small; but it works in just right for a sewing room, a nursery for the children chil-dren or a den. it will prove to be one of the most useful rooms in the house. Such houses are usually built faf enough away from the city t6 have plenty of play ground for the children. chil-dren. This means that there are children chil-dren in the family, and where there are children the sewing machine is a very important household help that should be in commission most of the time. This fact makes it very unhandy un-handy at times to have the sewing machine in the dining-room or living room, as. we often see it. It is more work to wheel the machine out from its retirement in some dark corner and to get the materials from some out-of-the-way cupboard than to do a small bit of sewing by hand. So a good machine often remains idle just because the house wife has no easy way of getting at it. Where a house plan admits of having hav-ing a small room on the second floor that may be utilized for this purpose the architect is not doing justice to the future owner if he fails to work It in. It is handy for a woman's personal use every day in the year and is worth a great deal when you have a periodical visit from the dressmaker. dress-maker. Every woman appreciates a work shop suitable to the business in hand. Most women will make a room of this kind save dollars during the year. Another feature that every woman likes is the large linen closet. Where you have no attic a large store room of this kind is especially valuable, for, besides providing a place for Second Floor Plan. good use of a reception hall, but it relieves the living room of an encumbrance. en-cumbrance. The planning of a niche of this kind fpr the piano is something new in small houses because architects never found a good place until recently recent-ly that could be utilized without encroaching en-croaching on other valuable space. We have done away with the second or back parlor and we have tried for years for some satisfactory way of disposing of the furniture necessary to accommodate a lot of friends when they call in the evening and assemble in one large room. The piano at such times is always in the way, still W J&M'ffl fell Kffef' w house linen, bedding, etc., it is the proper place for the storage of trunks, suit cases, clothing that is not in every day use, and a great many other things that you want to refer to occasionally. The roof of this house is different from ordinary houses, which fact alone is something to recommend it, because every house should have a distinct individuality as different as possible from the ordinary. You get tired of seeing a great many houses In the neighborhood all topped with you want it within easy reach in case of necessity. Music is the only polite method known to modern society of discouraging discour-aging conversation. Evsry hostess is taxed to her utmost resources at times to control certain acquaintances who insist on entertaining her company. com-pany. On such occasions a good husky three-stringed piano in thorough thor-ough repair under the spell of a muscular performer is a great blessing. bless-ing. This house is estimated to cost complete $2,500 when built of good grade materials. ip Kitchun Ll First Floor Plan. the same style of roof. A roof means a good deal, both in appearance and comfort. A steep roof like this will dry immediately after a shower, while a roof built on a lower pitch will remain wet for hours, sometimes days at a time during a r?.iny season and this lias a great deal to do with the lasting qualities of shingles. Another advantage of a steep roof is the room you get for closets where the ceiling would be too low for any other purpose. pur-pose. i The down stairs of this plan is exceptionally ex-ceptionally good. To commence with |