COUNTRY HOMES—RURAL COTTAGES. Homes in most new villages such as are continually springing up in all parts of the country lack both taste and convenience in their ornamentation and arrangement. We present herewith a few designs which though capable of ex ecution at no great cost show what may be done to make a cottage home an object of beauty and refined taste. Our en gravings are selected from a large number in the pages of Downing's 'Cottage Residences' an excellent work pub lished by John Wiley & Son of New York city which will be found more fully noticed elsewhere in this paper. The object
COUNTRY HOMES—RURAL COTTAGES. Homes in most new villages such as are continually springing up in all parts of the country lack both taste and convenience in their ornamentation and arrangement. We present herewith a few designs which though capable of ex ecution at no great cost show what may be done to make a cottage home an object of beauty and refined taste. Our en gravings are selected from a large number in the pages of Downing's 'Cottage Residences' an excellent work pub lished by John Wiley & Son of New York city which will be found more fully noticed elsewhere in this paper. The object in view in designing the cottage represented in our first illustration (Figs. 9 and 10) is internal convenience. There are many families some composed of invalids or per sons advanced in years who have a strong preference for a plan giving the kitchen and at least one bedroom upon the room and other apartments all on the first floor. Above are five good bedrooms with a closet in each. For the ex terior of the cottage to be covered with vertical boarding a simple rustic style has been chosen. The veranda and trel lises over the windows are intended for vines not merely as ment and poetry to the house without expense. They should be constructed of cedar poles with the bark on and if neatly put together will be much more becoming to such a cottage than the most elaborate carpentry work. The design headed 'a river cottage' (Fig. 132) is as its name indicates a very pretty Gothic dwelling intended to be located on the bank of a river or sheet of water. It has therefore a road front and a water front ; the former having the entrance porch extended out beyond the line of the latter provided with an ample veranda connected with the lower lawn by a flight of steps. There is a basement and above on the first floor a large parlor with a bay window to command the view and also dining room library etc. The second story contains six rooms. The walls of the basement are of stone above whic
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