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Show Ip!. HOME gSg. EDITOR , ttat is quite new is the stairway built around the big chimney. It not only looks well from the large living room but it occupies the least important coiner of the house and it lands you upstairs in the middle of the hall in close proximity to the doors leading into the different rooms. Under this stair are the steps leading to the cellar, cel-lar, so that space is economized to the best advantage. The material for the walls is cement ce-ment preferably run in molds with provision made for dead air spaces, on the hollow wall principle. This makes the warmest house because i! prevents dampness. And it is the cheapest construction if you take lasting last-ing qualities into consideration. A massive effect is given by the heavy loggia piers, and this loggia, by the way, is considered one of the most attractive parts of the whole house. Air. William A. Radford will answcl questions and give advice KHEE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Kditor. Author and Manufacturer,, he is. without dnnht. the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. ITS West Jackson boulevard, Chicago. 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. The expression, a two-story bungalow, bunga-low, which we often hear, is a misnomer mis-nomer Properly speaking, a bungalow bunga-low is but one story high and is covered cov-ered with a roof having very little pitch to it. But we are always improving im-proving things. It would be utterly impossible for the bungalow design to travel across the continent from California Cali-fornia as far east as Chicago without receiving the inventive attentions of the western sons of our down-east Yankee ancestors. In this plan we have a dwelling of modest dimensions, being 25 feet Trom front to rear and 32 feed in width, with a four-foot extension to make room for a pantry. In this way we get three splendid rooms on the first floor and they are well arranged for both convenience and looks. Pantries were never properly built until this outside attachment was hit. upon. It was born .of necessity, like many other valuable inventions, and improved upon as occasion demanded. Pantries are intended for the storage of food both cooked and otherwise Naturally pantries should be kept as cool as possible and they should be well ventilated at all times. Light is a necessity and convenience is very Important, for the pantry is visited many times during the preparation of each meal; and meals come along regularly reg-ularly three times a' day in most healthy families. You can't have a cool pantry and have it built in the body of the house along with the other rooms, especially In a furnace-heated house. In one little house where a pantry attachment like this was built on. the space below was made Into a cold fruit room. The main cellar wall was tarried across solid and straight except ex-cept for a doorway, and a good heavy x door was hung in the opening. The outside wall under the pantry was I Beld Rm. - H Bed Rm. j 1 WXK'O- I I 100 ; rTPr N0OK Second Floor Plan. The square openings are easily fitted with fly screens, so it is well intended for an outdoor summer parlor and the size is sufficient to be of some use, as it. is ten feet wide and twenty feet long. The rooms upstairs are stolen from the roof space, and they are right nice little rooms, too. When I think back a few years to the time when all such roof room was counted as attic space, good only for storage of old truck, It if - e x Ty tfW I i i jv - mil F 1 A I carried up in the same solid way and a good outside window put in which was covered with a fine wire Bcreen. Shelves were built in this fruit room against the outside wall from near the cement floor clear up to the ceiling. As the, room Is eight feet six inches long this gave considerable shelf room and it proved a splendid place to store canned fruit, butter, eggs and such groceries as a person likes to buy in quantities and keep on hand. The fruit room and pantry above were connected by means of a dumb waiter which was just a box about a foot square and three feet long vertically ver-tically open on the front side and fit- is easy to realize to what extent small houses have been improved. Instead of a dark, dingy loft without with-out floor, partition or daylight, we now have three bedrooms and a splendid splen-did bathroom with hot and cold water wa-ter the same as in large expensive houses. The estimated cost of this attractive and sturdy little dwelling is $2,500. Then In the matter of light, what, a change; we have here 14 windows for four rooms and one stairway, which certainly looks like a liberal allowance allow-ance even for hese times of extravagant extrava-gant ideas. It has taken us a long time to learn that we can build an elegant small house as well as an elegant large house, and we are just commencing to put our knowledge to some practical use. Such cottages as this are becoming becom-ing common in the more enterprising suburbs of the larger cities and the indications are that they will continue to grow in popularity, for they meet the requirements of flat dwellers who have become heartily sick of living in dungeens. Porch HE Scroi Living Rm. ' vli? j I3'"XI6'6" j: DinincRm. H Porch jso'O'xiovy First Floor Plan. led with two shelves in the middle. There was a pulley near the ceiling in the pantry and a rope with a counter-weight on tbe other end which balanced the box so It would sltdo easily up and down. With this convenience con-venience It- was never necessary to tote things up or down cellar One trip below only was necessary ;t any ! meal time. Very often the box Mself contained everything needed and It ' was only a minute's work to pull It up Into the pantry. Another feature in this little house |