. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. sitting room jars on the sense of propriety. It looksbad enough behind the kitchen stove, and is only tolerated be-cause it is a useful article—an instrument of torture from whichthe man of the house cannot very well flee. The coal chest isan accessory to the fact, yet in having one we find that initself it is pleasing to look at and also serves a double purposeof a comfortable seat under the window sill or where one has amind to place it. We have then to consider an article of furni-ture which admittedly is useful and in ha
. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. sitting room jars on the sense of propriety. It looksbad enough behind the kitchen stove, and is only tolerated be-cause it is a useful article—an instrument of torture from whichthe man of the house cannot very well flee. The coal chest isan accessory to the fact, yet in having one we find that initself it is pleasing to look at and also serves a double purposeof a comfortable seat under the window sill or where one has amind to place it. We have then to consider an article of furni-ture which admittedly is useful and in harmony with our betterdesire to banish the unsightly useful necessity. It will be foundnot only desirable for the stove-heated room, but for the gentle-man who, in his steam-heated residence, likes to run a little firedepartment of his own in the library grate just for auld ac-quaintance sake and watch again the glow in the chimneybreast. As here shown it will be very readily constructed. It is seathigh—that is, i8 inches from the floor to top, without Fig. 100.—Fuel Chest and Window Seat. The width at the ends, outside, is i8 inches, the front 22 construction is held between four posts, 2 inches square, CERTAIN FURNITURE FORMS 81 i\}i inches long, making the end frames 14 inches wide by 15^inches, the back frame i5>i x 18 inches and the front frame 15X 18 inches. The frames for the ends and back are made of % x 2-inch railand stile, with a ^.g-inch plain panel set in a groove 3/16 inch
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