OCR Text |
Show this convenience it was never neces-Boxy neces-Boxy to tote things up or down cellar. Only one trip below was necessary at any meal time. Very often the box Itself contained everything needed, and It was only a minute's work to pull it up Into the pantry. Another feature In this little house, that Is quite new, la the stairway built around the big 'chimney. It not Dnly looks well from the large living room, but it occupies the leaEt important impor-tant corner 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 tc the best advantage. The material for the walls la concrete, con-crete, preferably run in molds with provision made for dead air spaces, an the hollow wall principle, as this makes the warmest house because it prevents dampness. And it is the cheapest construction if you take lasting last-ing qualities into consideration. A massive effect is given by the aeavy loggia piers. And this loggia, !jy the way, Is considered one of the COMBINES MANY G00DFEATURES Modest Dwelling In Which All -the Modern Ideas of Comfort Are Incorporated. PANTRY IN PROPER POSITION For Purposes for Which It Is Intended Apartment 8houid Be, as It Is In 1 This Case, Placed on the Outside Out-side of the Hou6e Means ' Saving of Labor. 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 j 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. 1827 Prairie avenue. Chicago, 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. By WILLIAM A. RADFORD. 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 to travel across the oontinent from California as far east as Chicago without receiving receiv-ing the inventive attentions of the western sons of our "Down-East" Yankee Yan-kee ancestors. In this plan we have a dwelling of modest dimensions, being 25 feet from front to rear, and 32 feet In width, with a four-foot extension to make i room for a pantry. In this way we get three splendid rooms on the first 1 floor, and they are well arranged for i both convenience and looks. 1 Pantries were never properly built i until this outside attachment was hit 1 upon. It was born of necessity, like many other valuable inventions, and I was improved upon as occasion de- i manded. Pantries are intended for 1 the storage of food, both cooked and i otherwise. Naturally, pantries should i be kept as cool as possible, and they i should be well ventilated at all times, i Light is a necessity, and convenience is very important, for the pantry is wxiw i KWXI5V j -Ft Nook ""t ' Jl . XI Second Floor Pran. Most attractive parts of the whole aouse. The square openings are easi ily fitted with fly screens, so It is idapted for an outdoor summer par-or; par-or; and the size is sufficient to be of some use, as It is 10 feet wide and 2Q "eet long. The rooms upstairs are stolen from me roof spaoe. And they are right lice little rooms, too. When I think, back a few years to the time when ill such room room was counted as, ittic space, good only for storage of. Did truck, it is easy to realize to what sxtent small houses have been improved. im-proved. Instead of a dark, dingy loft, without floor, partition, or daylight, fc&cfr m " Hll Ot h MH V-im ,&f I I t I lis !v , X-v i ft n we now have three bedrooms and a splendid bathroom with hot and cold water, the same as In large, expensive expen-sive houses. Then, in the matter of light, what a change! We havehere 14 windows for four rooms and one stairway which certainly looks like a liberal allowance, even for these times of extravagant ex-travagant 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 practi-cal use. Such cottages as this are becoming be-coming common in the more enterprising enter-prising Buburbs 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 dungeons. The estimated cost of this homelike place Is $2,500, visited many times during the preparation prepa-ration of each meal, and meals come along regularly 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 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 cold-fruit room. The main cellar wall was carried across solid and straight, except ex-cept for a doorway; and a good, heavy door wis hung in the opening. The outside wall under the pantry was carried car-ried up in the same solid way, and a good outside window put in, which Porch WTCHEfi I I4'0'XV6- 1 , Living Rm. Vkl I3''XI6'6" j DwcRm. 1 Lj M''XI4V 'j Porch I "0"XI03' H d-L First Floor Plan. was covered with a fine wire screen. Shelves were built in this fruit room against the outside wall, from near the cement floor clear up to the ceiling. ceil-ing. 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 the pantry above were connected by means of a dumb-waiter, which has Just a box about a foot square and three feet long, vertically open on the front side, and fitted with two shelves in ths middle. There was a pulley near the celling in the pantry, and a roje with a counterweight on the other end which balanced the box so that it would slide easily up and down. With |