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Show 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 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. This is a ten room house. Sometimes Some-times when there are a number of children chil-dren in a growing family a house of ten rooms becomes a necessity. Ideas in regard to the size of houses have changed very much in the last ten years. People are not now building build-ing larger than they need, not so much because the expense of building has somewhat increased, but the principal reason Is that help cannot be secured to do the necessary housework. A gTeat many wome: have killed themselves them-selves trying to keep a large house looking nice enough to satisfy their women friends, but women are learning learn-ing wisdom and are becoming content with smaller houses, houses that provide pro-vide just room enough for their families fam-ilies and one or two. occasional guests. Sometimes families need a house with four or five bedrooms, then a plan like this seems to fit in just right. Looking at the perspective It will be noticed that this house tones up with the best of them. It is the kind of building . that satisfies a person's pride and every one should have pride enough to appreciate a good home and feel satisfied with it. The mere fact of having a large house won't satisfy anybody. There must be more to a home than the building, but a family of from six to ten persons should be able to establish estab-lish a very satisfactory home in a house like this. The building is thirty feet in width by thirty-seven feet six inches in length and the porch is extra, a size sufficient to lay out nicely into large pleasant rooms, with convenient hallways, hall-ways, stairways, etc. It is impossible to get nine or ten good and sufficient rooms in a house much smaller. If you try it you will surely spoil something. some-thing. For a great many years architects have been trying to arrange a satis- dow like this and sew and drop the work at a moment's notice to be tak. en up at some other time without the necessity of putting every little piece away. The door may be shut and locked lock-ed if necessary, so she knows nothing will be disturbed. A house as large as this should have both front and back stairs. The back stair arrangement in this house is especially good, as it leads directly from the cellar to the attic with an easy entrance from the kitchen and a grade entrance from the side of the house. It makes the third entrance, Second Floor Plan. 1 but they are all needed in such a house, you may be sure each one will be used frequently. The side porch opening from the kitchen is another pleasant feature. A good deal of kitchen work may be done on a porch o this kind in the summer time, especially if it i3 shaded shad-ed with a good climbing vine such as the Virginia creeper, some of the night shades, or a Dutchman's pipe vine. The pantry is big enough for a store-room, another feature that will be appreciated by a woman who is obliged to keep house for a large family. fam-ily. A feature of this house that looks well outside and is appreciated inside is the manner of building the exten- factory front stair that will look right and that will not spoil the front of the downstairs nor knock out the hall bedroom bed-room upstairs. This bow window extension ex-tension on the side solves the problem by providing a landing for the turn of the stair outside of the wall line. Such a stairway leaves room for a satisfactory sat-isfactory approach in the hall below, ft Wj r T JST). N - j First Floor Plan. and it lands in good position on the upper floor, leaving a splendid front room ten by fifteen and a half feet, over the lower hall, that may be used as a sewing room or bedroom. A sewing room Is one of the necessities neces-sities where there are children growing grow-ing up. It is very unsatisfactory to have sewing going on in one of the living liv-ing rooms. It seems to interfere with :he proper working of the whole house, but having a room like this, large and airy, the work may be carried on to advantage by having the proper materials, ma-terials, tables, sewing machine and ther tools all together in the work-ihop." work-ihop." A woman can sit in a bay win-1 sion window seats. They add to the size of the room to the extent of the seat, but they add more to the appearance appear-ance of the room because these windows win-dows may be dressed up very nicely. The seats are usually fitted with cushions cush-ions having attractive covers of bright colors. A little ingenuity will make such a seat very comfortable and the light is so good that they are preferred for reading and the children like such places for studying. It requires a little lit-tle care to arrange them to look well and at the same time have them serviceable serv-iceable so that you do not feel nervous when the children appropriate them to their own purposes, especially the window seat in the dining room. It is not necessary that children should use the front room for their play. They can enjoy themselves better in some of the other rooms and annoy the mother much less. |