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Show work into the different partitions without making trouble anywhere. The plan of building eight rooms into a house as small as this i3 a notable economy. The two upper rooms extra, as the space is taken entirely from the roof. This arrangement arrange-ment gives four bedrooms, besides the ien, which may be used for sleeping purposes if necessary. The regular living rooms, parlor, dining room and kitchen, are laid out in the most approved order. The kitchen is built in such a way as to save steps in the every-day work of preparing meals. There is a treat deal in designing a kitchen, pantry, cellar stair and back porch in such a way as to condense the business of. COTTAGE HOUSE OF ra BOOMS Architectural Skill Employed to Give Structure More Solid Appearance. WARM-AIR FURNACE BEST Always the Most Economical and Satisfactory Sat-isfactory Way of Heating Such a Structure as This Kitchen Designed to Save All Unnecessary Steps. By William a. radford. Mr. William A. Radford will answe) 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 13 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 ivei.ve, Chicago. 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. A.i eight-room cottage house 27 feet 6 inches by 40 feet in size, exclusive of the front porch, is shown in this perspective and floor plan. The heavy front porch gives this cottage house a rather massive ap- HOOF' -Hall- ; '15 ftfrr pearance as you see it from the street. The porch is 7 by 24 feet and is covered cov-ered hy a gable end roof with considerable consid-erable projection of eave, that protects pro-tects the porch in all kinds of weather. The plan of building two solid piers about six feet up from the ground with short wooden pillars to support a heavy arch that reaches from one pier to the other across the front entrance helps to establish a solid design that looks much more expensive ex-pensive than it really is. The porch foundations are entirely separate from the cellar wall. The pier foundations reach below frost, but the work above ground is made of wood covered with metal lath and plastered with stucco. The work is solid and strong, but is much cheaper than concrete or stone. The same character of finish is used on all outside parts of the front porch as well as the side walls and dining window extension. When a good quality of metal lath is used and the first coat of stucco contains plenty of hair this kind of finish may be permanent and satis- factory. The main part of the house is plain, square in build and covered with a gabled roof. The manner of building is to construct a stone wrall up above grade line. The framework is plank frame construction above the wall. To get the necessary headroom in the basement the floor joists are started Second Floor Plan. housework into small quarters. Also, the arrangement of the sink and kitchen cabinet helps very much in saving labor. There is more work and expense in the dining room in this house than Ie any other room. It is finished -with built-in cabinet work froi.j the bard-wood bard-wood floor to the crown molding at the ceiling. The extension window is carefully well built by boxing it in with sheathing boards and covering the sheathing with building paper, so as to cover all the cracks and joints. The same style of finish is carried through the parlor and den. The particular pattern is usually Rejected Re-jected by the owner of the building:. Fashion dictates that inside woodwork shall be plain, no beading whatever, and very few curves. Many expensive rooms are finished with plain, straight bands of wood instead of moldings. The baseboard, window and door casings cas-ings and the crown molding at the ceiling may he light or heavy, but in either case they are all plain, usually with square corners. There is a double sliding door between be-tween the dining room and parlor which may be opened as occasion requires re-quires to make the two rooms into one. A great deal of the time this door will be left open, which is a benefit in the circulation of air foi ventilation. Houses of this type are so closely built that some means oi ;; yXM;: ;: - s : ;.:; myyf:Mt bolt .:::x-::v::-' : : : . '..-. '' . .-. ..... ' : ; about three feet above the top of the wall, which makes the cellar about seven and oae-half feet from the cellar cel-lar floor to the joists overhead. It is usually a good plan to heat a house of this kind with a warm-air furnace. It is the most economical and satisfactory way of heating a small, compact house. The furnace pipes may be carried to the two upper up-per rooms with very little expense, so that every room in the house may be warmed by registers, either in the disposing of the excess of air brought in through the furnace is a problem. In this plan the stairway door may be left open, which will lead the air to the upper rooms. An open window upstairs will complete the ventilating; system from the cold air box that 6up-.plies 6up-.plies the furnace through the different differ-ent warm air pipes and registers, so the air will be kept in constant motion- Thls is one of the valuable feature of a warm-air furnace and one that is seldom mentioned. In fact, some n -io Vm IQiiiiij 14-14' I -porch- I 21-1 warm-air furnaces are set in such a way as to take the air from the front hall or some other room in the house, so as to use the same air over and over again. If house owners understood under-stood the advantage of taking fresh air from outdoors they would refuso to deal with a furnace man who advocated advo-cated the self-contained inside circulation circu-lation of foul air Misguided furnaca men get the idea that a house may b heated cheaper if the heating is done with a smaller-sized furnace, hv-cheating hv-cheating the Inmates of the oxygen that their lungs require. Another feature about taking air from the inside of a house is the dryness dry-ness of the air that has been passed several times through the furnace, resides re-sides the extra load of carbonic ariil gas which it contains it is robbd of the moisture that helps to maVc outdoor out-door air so enjoyable. There 1b a great difference in tha water that a warm-air furnace will evaporate, according to the different ways of setting the furnace. Air taken from outdoors contains considerable moisture, so that with proper ventilation ventila-tion it goes through the houso -without loading up with much moisture from the evaporating pan. ATI furnaces fur-naces are provided with receptaclf for the evaporating of water into the air that passes through the furnace. The comfort of a house depends Tery much on the amount of moisture contained con-tained in the house air. " First Floor Plan. floor or baseboards. There is less ob-fection ob-fection to floor registers than formerly, former-ly, when the floors were covered with carpets. Still it is sometimes difficult to select a place for a floor register which won't interfere with some article arti-cle of furniture. Usually wall registers regis-ters are placed near a door, because It is necessary to keep the furniture iway from the doorB, anyhow. In this plan the furnace pipes would |