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Show PRETTY COTTAGE OFJOOOMS Arranged With Cased Openings, to Allow Large, Unobstructed Floor Space. PORCH COZY AND ATTRACTIVE Built Under Separate Roof, But Has the Popular Built-in Effect House Has Admirable Lighting Arrangements Ar-rangements Storaye Space Provided For. By WILLIAM A. RADFORD. Mr. William A. Radford will answei questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all 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. 1S27 Prairie avenue, Chicago, 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. The porch is the greatest factor in determining the impression that a person per-son receives from a house. An attractive at-tractive and cozy porch will always help in making any house more pleasant. pleas-ant. Porches can be built in many ways so as to fit in with the general scheme of the house design. Sometimes Some-times they are set back under the main roof, which gives the huilt-in effect. ef-fect. Other times they are detached from the house proper and built under a separate roof, which of course connects con-nects up with the main roof of the house. In the design shown hre the porch is built under a separate roof, but it is built so low that it gives the built-in effect just as if it were under the house roof. The squarp, white pillars combined with the low roof and the but they are always kept, anyway.. Plenty of storage space is provided in. this plan in the attic. This extensive; space is reached by stairs through the dining room. In addition to the room in the attic there are plenty of closets, including one in each bedroom, one in the bathroom, one in the back hall, and one in the reception hall. The compact kitchen is of the type that is so popular among housewives. Everyone has heard people remark about the wonderful large kitchen in some house. If they had to work iit that wonderful large kitchen for a while they would stop (-alling it wonderful, won-derful, but they would shorten its name down to Just large kitchen. The person who works in the kitchen has to move around a good dr&l and if this room is too big the wait f ig that has to be done in preparing a meal is very tiring. What is the use, tfen, of wasting wast-ing space that will be Valuable in-some in-some other room? In planning the house figure on a small, compact, and well-arranged kitchen and you will never regret it. In the design shown here the kitchen kitch-en is only It feet 6 inches by S feet,; which cuts the waste spare to a minimum. mini-mum. Room for all the various things that are needed h the kitchen is provided by a pantry This is a small room off the kitchen, and is located lo-cated near the sink. In the pantry, there is a cupboard and also a refrig-' erator that is iced from the outside. The kitchen opens on to a rear porch" that can be used as a kitchen annex in the warm weather. This house is set well above the ground, so that there is a large and well-lighted basement. It is absolutely absolute-ly necessary to have a heating plant in any of the northern parts of this country. To do this the house must be set high enough so that there i plenty of headroom for the type of plant that is to be installed. A deep cellar could be built with the same effect, ef-fect, but the basement Would be inclined in-clined to darkness and it would also be damp. With this hoise a laundry can be installed and there would also be room for a small workshop. The entrance to the basement is from the- kitchen. A storage room for fruits and vegetables can be built in a part, of the cellar that is aa far from the furnace as possible. overhanging eaves add to the idea of a built-in porch. The porch roof is of the gable type, while a hip roof covers the house. A bungalow effect is created cre-ated by the overhanging eaves on both the house and the porch. In small houses, cased openings are becoming more and more popular to join up the rooms in the front part of the house. With a small home it is impossible to get very large rooms, and such an arrangement may be desirable de-sirable for entertaining. This is accomplished ac-complished by using cased openings. The reception hall, living room, and dining room are connected in this way here. The arrangement gives a large unobstructed floor space along the front and one side of the house. The cased opening between the dining room and the living room is so wide that it makes these two rooms into one large room. The lighting of these rooms is taken care of in good shape niltoPnJ Moom. Lip TcnDifey lED&QN V "if! 'LlYINGtoOH' I iv tamoKlkLKj - J Tmnt Pouch. j 21 8" 6 Floor Flan. by four windows in the living room and two wide ones in the dining room. A seat can be built into the square bay in the living room if desired. Built-in Built-in seats are found now in nearly every house, and are an exceedingly pleasant feature. Almost any built-in seat will add to the coziness of a room. In the dining room is a built-in buf-'fut buf-'fut that is placed under the two windows win-dows on the side. This buffet extends completely along the wall and consequently conse-quently contains plenty of room for china, silver, or any of the many things that are used in the dining room. Storage space is often at a premium in small houses an 1 the closets become be-come filled up because there is no other oth-er place to keep things that are not In actual use all the time. Even in the best-regulated families there are always many things around that nobody no-body is using but they are kept because be-cause they may be of service some day. They will probably never be used |