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Show f WMA.RADFORD.- The front hall connects with the ( kitchen by way of a sort of cellar vestibule. ves-tibule. This arrangement is all right. A great many houses are so built that you can't get from the kitchen to the front hall is likely to disseminate the dining room and parlor. The idea seems to.be that a door opening from the kitchen in the direction of the front hall is likely to disesminate the savory odor of cooking when certain vegetables are undergoing the boiling process, and the perfume is not eon-side! eon-side! ed sufficiently "bon ton" to associate as-sociate on equal terms with guests in the parlor. This plan, however, provides for doublo doors, a precaution that is like- Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of buildinp, 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 enclose two-cent stamp for reply. It would be difficult to design a practical prac-tical house any cheaper than the one illustrated herewith. It is a small affair af-fair intended for a new married couple who don't require much room. It is a very neat, pretty little story and a half house, 25 feet 6 inches wide by 27 feet 6 inches long, exclusive of porches. Love in a cottage used to mean more or less discomfort in the winter time as soon as the weather got cold, but modern inventions have lately been introduced into the smaller houses, and we are applying them in a sensible way. Besides a hall, we have three good, large rooms on the first floor, and we have two very good bedrooms and a bathroom tucked away in the roof gables. In fact it might properly be called a gable end house. All the windows win-dows you get upstairs are in the gables; ga-bles; and, by the way, these windows just add the necessary finishing touches to the large gables. A house gable was never finished satisfactorily until the three window frame was invented, in-vented, and that didn't happen until quite recently. There was some objection objec-tion at first to triple windows like this, until the women found out how to dress them up satisfactorily; but we don't hear any complaint now. The fashion seems to have come to stay, 1 RtDfoOM I Second Floor Plan ly to meet with approval from the most fastidious housekeepers. The cellar-way leads down from this little vestibule, and there is also a set of shelves reaching from the floor to the ceiling. This set of cellar-way shelves is about as useful as any other feature fea-ture of the house. For some reason it is almost impossible to keep jellies in the cellar without having them mold in the glasses. If kept In the kitchen the jellies slwink until the glassses are not more than half full; but shelves in a cellarway built like this seem to hit the happy medium, and iho because the women have given it their sanction. When the women nail a fash-Ion, fash-Ion, it stays nailed until they change their minds; and they haven't published publish-ed any change of sentiment in regard to a triple window, especially when it decorates the gable end of a house roof. The reason probably Is that they have found a satisfactory way to arrange the shades and curtains;, and they have also found out that a window win-dow of this kind admits more light. sunshine and air than a narrow, contracted, con-tracted, old-fashioned affair. One great advantage of a house like this is the ease with which the housework house-work is carried on. There are many pleasant features about the plan, one of which Is the combination living room and dining room which makes practically one room nearly 27 feet long by 13 feet In width. The partial division in the center may be hung with curtains or not; but usually the fruit comes out just as nice In the winter win-ter time as when put up In summer. Dry air In the house and damp cellar air meet here, and the results are very satisfactory. The value of a house Is riiade up of little things. It is the many llllle things added together that make the round, satisfactory whole. The man or woman who wants a house to suit them must study the details before starting to build; otherwise the house will be unsatisfactory when finished. The fact Is, few families can find a satisfactory ready made. It Is difficult for anyone to feel really, thoroughly at home in a rented house. There are fifty little things you would like to have different, but you positively refuse re-fuse to put time and expense on a house that belongs to someone else. This is one reason why I bo often recommend rec-ommend young people to Klart out In a home of the ir own. It may not b elaborate, but if it fit s the pucketbook It Is very likely to prove the uucleua of a happy and prosperous life. This little six-room dwelling has been built for $1,800. It should not cost very much more than that todny. r Tm ri I 7 is-o" j l I fittETP'T HMLL lij a a i First Floor Plan j archway is leu open, especially in the i summer time. j If a woman has handsome portieres, she likes to display them at the proper prop-er time; but she also likes lo put tliem away in summer, out of the way of moths and the fading propensities of sunlight. And 1 often think that she does it to have a change. I don't care how h.'.ndsome a curtain Is, if I it hangs before you the year round, j you become indifferent to it; In fact, you don't see it, you don't know It Is there. But h your wife puts it away you miss It, and when It comes back again you are pleased to renew old qualntances. A real, live, womanly woman is fully alive to the fact that mcst men and some women forget things when tbey are out of sight and out of hearing; so next fall the old curtains pass for new draperies. |
