The Architect, Builder and Woodworker Volume 16 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...with necessary text, each month to these subjects in turn. It will be seen this month that we have done pretty fairly in this line. Drawing the Plan. FOR the first we will suppose an easy plan--say, three rooms on each floor. The house to be frame, resting on a stone foundation; the main part gabled, and also the rear part, but lower. The cottage is to be for refined occupants, who desire front and rear stairs, large pantry and cbina closet room, rooms of liberal size, and the exterior plain, neat, but in keeping with the scale within doors. The object of this plan is. to show the student how to combine the parts of plans which have been illustrated before, so we will suppose a simple cottage, but one in which we can show most of the parts brought together as they naturally would be. Let the kitchen be on the north side, flanked on the west by the laundry and pantries. Dining-room on the west, hall in centre, and parlor on the east. The south exposure protected by a veranda. The laundry is small, as before spoken of; and a passage connects dining-room with kitchen and hall, and separates it from both, to their manifest advantage. Over the kitchen is a room for the servant, furred off for trunk and other closets at the sides, and reached by a rear stairs as well as by a front flight. Over the other two rooms are chambers, spacious and of good height, with closets. A bath-room is in the rear part, handy to the water supplies. The cellar extends under the whole house, and is readied from the outside by a flight of stone steps, and from the kitchen by a flight under the rear stairs. From the copious descriptions hitherto given, the parts need not be described here in detail, but it is sufficient if the learner recognize them in their relative positions. Points ...