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Show ! ";-.v BY n.-..,,.., ! V ! feel 6 inches by 12 feel. Both of j these rooms are nicely lighted and ! provide the accommodations for the necessary furniture for convenient ! housekeeping. The broad space in the j dining room near the kitchen door is I just ilip location which a built-in side- board cr buffet should have to be most convenient, and ornamentally located. There are numerous stock designs for built-in sideboards, as well as for other oth-er pieces of built-in furniture which can be had at very small cost. Ask your building supply dealer or building build-ing contractor to show you the designs de-signs that can be furnished along this line at moderate cost. The kitchen connects with the dining din-ing room through the pantry, well supplied sup-plied with built-in cases. This Is an arrangement that has been tested out in a great many houses and has been round to be very convenient and satisfactory. sat-isfactory. It serves to separate the kitchen from the balance of the house and so keeps out all the cooking odors, and at the same time the service serv-ice between the kitchen and dining room is just as short as possible. The bedrooms in this cottage are very well placed. The front bedroom opens off the living room and is 10 by 12 feet In size. The large closet opening from this, lighted and ventilated ven-tilated by a good sized window, is a feature that will be much appreciated by the housewife. The second bedroom bed-room Is in the rear of the house, opening off the dining room. It is 9 by H feet In size, and has a good sized clothes closet. The exterior material for this bungalow cottage is rough boards stained with creosote oil, which Is a very appropriate, economical and substantial material for this type of i Mr. William A. Kndford will answer I questions and ivt? advice KfUCK OP i COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building', for the readers of Ibis j paper. On uceount of his wide experience J as Editor, Author and Mamifaeturer, lie j is. w-iihout doubt, the highest ainhn-.-Uy j tn oil Ihese subjects. Ailrlress all inquiries i to William A. Radford. No. ITS' West I Dackson boulevard. Chicago. PI., and only j Enclose two-cent stamp for reply. j Many practical builders have said that, the bungalow is a lad, no doubt good enough, it Is true, for southern ', California, or southern slates, such : is Florida and Louisiana, but in the i fnaiu not suitable for practical build-; build-; ing throughout the country at large. ; Jt has been affirmed that the cost of ; the bungalow style dwelling is far in j excess of that for the ordinary type I two-story house, providing the same j accommodations. I The criticisms against the bunga-Jow bunga-Jow have been due, not so much to the real characteristics of the style itself, as to the over-enthusalsm of its devotees who have advocated it for buildings for yhio.h- it was never intended. in-tended. Designed originally for summer cottage cot-tage work and for spacious building sites, preferably of a hillyr nature, there have been too many instances where this type of dwelling has been squeezed into narrow city lots and put in between high two or three-story dwellings much to the detriment of the typical bungalow style. Much very peculiar art has been perpetrated in the name of the bungalow bunga-low and it has to account for many freakish dwellings for which it is not In any way to blame; We have never happened to see a bungalow style office building nor do we remember of having heard of one; sas!3-fc-- 'mv mmm " mmm s:4 :': i M$tM 5:SiS:';i':::' house. An artistic touch is given the gable end by means of cehient plaster with board paneling. The attic space is large and is well lighted and ventilated ven-tilated by means of four good sized windows. Prospective builders will gulu many good Ideas by a careful study of this perspective, and floor plan. (till, what is almost as bad, the bungalow style church is quite a common com-mon thing in many of, our cities and uburbs. These are uses never con-leinplated con-leinplated by the originators of the inmgalow in this country and should jot be charged up against the style. The bungalow, rightly understood, is Mi artistically designed cottage, and within that sphere has some exceedingly exceed-ingly creditable features of work to show. The perspective and floor plan shown herewith illustrate a very artistic ar-tistic cottage designed in the western bungalow style. Five good sized rooms are provided, each one very well lighted. The arrangement provides pro-vides for that convenience which has become typical of the western bungalow bunga-low style of houses. Simplicity and directness are the keynotes of this style as illustrated In the accompanying design. At a cost no greater than for the plain, mi-j mi-j ornamented cottage with the same ac-t ac-t ! ?KTCHE:NtE DEDECOM I J jDlKtlMG ROCM I ' l-LOii!Tj I F p""i I I eiEoon B Living EM I j I io-o-hie-o' u-omto & 1 s V ! j uwm iy hi 4 m r ni FlECH ) t a,o-o I j Floor Plan. ' coinmodatlons, a real home-like, o.y and attractive dwelling is secured. The cost is estimated at $2,UU0, and ! without doubt in a good many locali-: locali-: ties it would not run as much as that. I In any typical bungalow desigti the ; porch is sure to have a pioiulnont . place. This one is eight by twenty feet in size, forming not only the main ! tlecoratlve feature of the front of the 'building, but serving the extremely ' practical end of being the outdoor living liv-ing room for the family in summer wtathor. Entering the house we find i living room, 11 by 12 feet in size, lonnectlng with a broad cased open-. open-. Uifi into the dining room which is 14 |