The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . spring of the ceil-ing, and seventeen feet high in the centreof the room, the ceiling for a portionof the way following the slant of therafters, and the principal rafters andbraces projecting out so as to show frombelow. The walls of this room are wam-scotted up to the level of the window-sills—four feet from the floor—with narrowceiling boards, and above that, together with the ceiling, are finished off with arough sand stucco finish. The wood-work should all be stained,and the walls tinted some soft neutral tint—gray, or cream, or
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . spring of the ceil-ing, and seventeen feet high in the centreof the room, the ceiling for a portionof the way following the slant of therafters, and the principal rafters andbraces projecting out so as to show frombelow. The walls of this room are wam-scotted up to the level of the window-sills—four feet from the floor—with narrowceiling boards, and above that, together with the ceiling, are finished off with arough sand stucco finish. The wood-work should all be stained,and the walls tinted some soft neutral tint—gray, or cream, or pearl color. The windows are all sash windows, dou-ble hung for purposes of ventilation; aud,in addition, there are two ventilating shaftsrising from the floor through the attic, andterminating in the ventilator on the ridgeof the main roof. These shafts have open-ings near the floor and ceiling, with ar-rangements for opening and shutting atwill. They arc made of smoothly-planed,well-jointed pine boards, and measure eachsixteen inches square Fig. 103.—Perspective. In order to keep up the circulation, andto supply cool air from outside, a shaft isintroduced running along under the floor,and terminating at the platform on which,in winter, the stove, or heating-apparatus,will stand, and from this distributed intothe room by numerous small holes in theriser of the platform. We consider the simplest methods ofventilation the best, and the above will befound both simple and eflFective. The greatdesideratum is to provide means for thedischarge of a certain quantity of vitiated air, and to supply its place by the samequantity of pure air, properly warmed inwinter. To make the discharge more effec-tive, the stove-pipe may be carried up inconnection with one of the shafts, rarifyingthe air, and making the upward currentstronger, but in ordinary cases this will behardly necessary. There are two entrances to this house,one for boys and one for girls. Both entriesare ten
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