. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings ... Second Floor Plan. equal interior accommodations. Many will consider the supe-rior beauty of such a building a full compensation for the extraexpense. The bath-room, on the second floor, is to be lighted by hav-ing the upper half of the door glazed with ground glass. Theopening marked A is to be an arch. The kitchen flue is to becarried through the wall into the jamb of the adjoining bedroomfire-place. In the dining-room, and in the bedroom over it,closets are obtained, and the effect of a bay se
. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings ... Second Floor Plan. equal interior accommodations. Many will consider the supe-rior beauty of such a building a full compensation for the extraexpense. The bath-room, on the second floor, is to be lighted by hav-ing the upper half of the door glazed with ground glass. Theopening marked A is to be an arch. The kitchen flue is to becarried through the wall into the jamb of the adjoining bedroomfire-place. In the dining-room, and in the bedroom over it,closets are obtained, and the effect of a bay secured by recess-ing one of the windows, a method which may frequently beadopted with advantage. 8UBUKBAN COTTAGE. This design represents a small, but comfortable and conve-nient house for a family requiring but a moderate amount ofspace. As shown, it is better adapted for a village or suburbanresidence than for a far n-honse, but with a little change in itsplan would answer well for the latter. Story-and-a-Half Cottages. 63 Fig. Pekspectite Vibw. On the first tioor an ample Lall (7x13) furnishes access to agood-sized parlor (13x17) and a convenient kitchen (15x15) rig. 28. Bedroom—12 X 16 Kitchen—15 x 15 1 i <Hxio Wash Room 8x10 Parlor—13 x 17 7x1? First Floor Plan. (wliicb will also serve as a dining-room), witli a large pantryand a wash-room attached. On the other side of the kitchen 64 The House. or dining-room is a commodious family bedroom (12X15)with a fire-place and two large closets. The height of wall in Fig. 29. lUxl2 lUxl2
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