Woodworking for beginners; a manual for amateurs . that the more elaborate plans suggested will exceed yourmeans, do not let them tempt you to run in debt, but con-tent yourself with the simplest plan. You will find it per-fectly comfortable, and whenever you can afford the expenseyou can easily add to it and improve it. That is the bestprinciple to go on, morally as well as financially. If that is too expensive, some of those given in the preceding pages willprobably answer your purpose. 2;6 Wood-Working for Beginners In addition to points already spoken of in the precedingpages, bear in mind
Woodworking for beginners; a manual for amateurs . that the more elaborate plans suggested will exceed yourmeans, do not let them tempt you to run in debt, but con-tent yourself with the simplest plan. You will find it per-fectly comfortable, and whenever you can afford the expenseyou can easily add to it and improve it. That is the bestprinciple to go on, morally as well as financially. If that is too expensive, some of those given in the preceding pages willprobably answer your purpose. 2;6 Wood-Working for Beginners In addition to points already spoken of in the precedingpages, bear in mind, in making your plans, to use onlysimple forms for your first efforts. Avoid dormer windowsand complicated roofs (especially combinations producing valleys) and bay-windows, and the like, at first. Sucharrangements add many difficulties for the beginner. Whenyou can make a plain, simple building, with everything snug. and tight, and can lay a plain roof that will not leak, youcan then attempt such variations of form with a fair chanceof success, but do not be too ambitious in your first at-tempts. A simple piazza can often be added to goodadvantage, if desired. It is well to ascertain the sizes of the ready-made doorsand windows which you can buy in the place where yourhouse is to be built, before drawing your i:)]ans. If there is a choice of situations in which to place your Simple Summer Cottages 277 house, a few suggestions about the selection of a site maybe of value. If you are going to build in the mountains, or the pine woods,or on rocky islands or promontories in the ocean,—in placeswhere there are almost no unsanitary conditions, where theclimate is so invigourating, the air so purifying,—there is no needto think of many precautions important in a cleared and settledcountry. As much sunlight and circulation of air as you canget, pure drinking water, and the simple precaution of not bui
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