. Cottage houses for village and country homes. the room, serves as a seat during the day, and fora bed at night. A table is hung against the —The foundation may be of stone, orposts set in the ground. The floor timber is framed to-gether—levelled on the foundation, and floored over, andthe edges cut even with the sills. The upright frame ofl/4 by 5-inch plank, and the plates T/4 by 6 inches, arethen placed in position, with openings for doors andwindows, as shown iti figure 105. The exterior boarding,Ya °y 9-y2-inch T. & G. pine, dressed on both sides, isthen put on
. Cottage houses for village and country homes. the room, serves as a seat during the day, and fora bed at night. A table is hung against the —The foundation may be of stone, orposts set in the ground. The floor timber is framed to-gether—levelled on the foundation, and floored over, andthe edges cut even with the sills. The upright frame ofl/4 by 5-inch plank, and the plates T/4 by 6 inches, arethen placed in position, with openings for doors andwindows, as shown iti figure 105. The exterior boarding,Ya °y 9-y2-inch T. & G. pine, dressed on both sides, isthen put on and battened. The roof is similarly boarded—with the center portion ceiled down, leaving an air 132 COTTAGE HOUSES space above. At the ends of the air space in each gable,are openings through the siding for the passage of theheated air from under the roof. Similar openings in theceiling over the center of each room, lead into the airspace. Each opening is neatly finished with latticework. The roof projects 8 inches, and has a 3-inch. Fig. 105.—BED CLOSED. BED OPEN. marginal strip all around, with pierced barges in eachgable, covered with pine shingles. The door openingsare protected by shingle hoods resting on dressed windows are neatly capped. Each window hasbattened shutters, with wrought-iron hinges and fasten-ings. The inside framework, 1V4 by 4 inches (see fig-
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