. Carpenter. with nothing but the two lines, onerepresenting the inside and the other theoutside or they may be filled in solid, orpartly filled in, and so on. In all draw-ings there is more ways than one to dothe work and therefore it is necessaryfor the workman to get used to the dif-ferent ways and be able to understandwhatever style he is working from. Plans as the carpenters know themare practically floor plans. Yet. ofcourse, the one plan goes from the first 47 THE CAE1FENTEK to the second floor just where the firstfloor leaves off and the second floor com-mences. The stair plans from so
. Carpenter. with nothing but the two lines, onerepresenting the inside and the other theoutside or they may be filled in solid, orpartly filled in, and so on. In all draw-ings there is more ways than one to dothe work and therefore it is necessaryfor the workman to get used to the dif-ferent ways and be able to understandwhatever style he is working from. Plans as the carpenters know themare practically floor plans. Yet. ofcourse, the one plan goes from the first 47 THE CAE1FENTEK to the second floor just where the firstfloor leaves off and the second floor com-mences. The stair plans from some draw-ings would be hard to fully establish, butif the stair builder fully understands howthey are supposed to begin and end thereis not much danger of his getting mixedin the middle of the stairway regardlessof what the drawings show. I have al-ready mentioned the doors, windows andso forth, which are above the floor you often see dotted lines stretchingclear across the room, especially the din- r. Fig. 2. ing room or the reception hall; generallythose dotted lines mean beamed show here (Figures 2 and 3) thefirst-floor plan and front elevation of ahasty drawing I made recently forBrother Meadows, our business agent,who at this writing has his house readyfor plastering and probably before thearticle appears will be living in what 1consider a very practical home. I saypractical because he has not wasted anyroom or material or done anything foolishin the way of unnecessary is what you might call a square, eight- room house with a kitchen added. Thekitchen and back porch are flat, one storyso that they can sleep on the roof if theywant fresh air. The floor plan shows a good way ofdrawing a plan, one that I think is easyto understand. In this you can see mystyle of illustrating doors both slidingand hinged, as well as other openings,windows, seats, stairs, fire piace and soforth. The dotted lines on the back porchin this instance are supposed to
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