. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 498 Reading-Course for Farmers. If the reception room is to be included as a part of the phm it should be at the front near the main entrance. It is naturally the most formal room in the house, the room where casual callers are received when one may not care to introduce them into the informalities of the family living room; but it must also be a room for family use as well, and not the cold and forbidding " best room " of our Puritan ancestors
. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 498 Reading-Course for Farmers. If the reception room is to be included as a part of the phm it should be at the front near the main entrance. It is naturally the most formal room in the house, the room where casual callers are received when one may not care to introduce them into the informalities of the family living room; but it must also be a room for family use as well, and not the cold and forbidding " best room " of our Puritan ancestors. The living room should need no description further than the name; but there is room for no end of thought in the design of it. First of all, it should have the best view of any room in the house; then it should have good broad windows with plenty of sunlight and yet shouhl not be too fully exposed to the uncomfortable glare of the hot summer sun; it should have wall space for books and furniture; it ought to have a generous open fireplace with a plain simple mantel; in fact it ought to be the one place above all others where every member of the family may feel. Fig. 308.—TJi: simplsst form of house, but of good propor- tions. In such a house the floor plan is also elementary. at home and thoroughly comfortable. It should be in location and interest the central room of the house and ought to open broadly into either the dining room or the parlor, or, if feasible, into both. The dining room, though its primary function is implied in its name, should be something more than a mere " eating ; It should be expressive of good cheer and thus conducive to pleasant thought and good digestion. It should have plenty of the early morning sunlight, which at all times of the year is welcome; and because the late afternoon sun in summer is likely to be hot and oppressive, this room of comfort should be sheltered from the low western sun. A south-east corner is the ideal place
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