Cottage residences : or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds Adapted to North America . rehouse, and the correct taste and skill with which they areapplied by him to the decoration of apartments, fully entitle him to the amplepatronage which he now receives. 134 COTTAGE RESIDENCES. On the sides of the passage leading from the hall to the kitch-en, are the pantry, the larder, and the store-room. By placingthese most useful and convenient appendages in this position,we not only make them at once easily accessible from thekitchen or the dining-
Cottage residences : or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds Adapted to North America . rehouse, and the correct taste and skill with which they areapplied by him to the decoration of apartments, fully entitle him to the amplepatronage which he now receives. 134 COTTAGE RESIDENCES. On the sides of the passage leading from the hall to the kitch-en, are the pantry, the larder, and the store-room. By placingthese most useful and convenient appendages in this position,we not only make them at once easily accessible from thekitchen or the dining-room, but we also remove the kitchen,with its concomitant noises and odors, to some distance fromthe main hall, and these may be still further lessened in effect,by having a door at both ends of this passage, to be shut whenrequired. The kitchen itself is 16 feet square; it is amply lighted andventilated, and communicates directly with the open air, by thepassage at the further side. In this passage is a servants stair-case, communicating with the apartments in the chamber story. The chamber story contains abundant accommodation for a. TFig. 57.] cottage. There are three handsome bedrooms, and two of a COTTAGE RESIDENCES. 135 smaller size. That over the drawing-room being the largest,and the most beautiful in form, may be kept as the state bed-room, being fitted up with all the appliances of comfort in itsfurniture and fixtures. The little room over the porch willmake a delightful room for a bachelor, or if one of the youngladies takes a fancy to it, it will make a little bijou of a boudoir,the oriel window giving a character of novelty and beauty tothe whole apartment. On the second floor of the kitchen wingare a bath-room, near the main hall (which may be suppliedwith hot water by pipes leading to a boiler in the kitchenbelow), and three servants bedrooms. There is also a water-closet at the end of the passage in this wing, the discharge pipefrom which is concealed in the par
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