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we filled with rubble cement. On the first story twelve-inch floor 

 beams were used. To the inner side of each, one inch from bottom 

 of beams, shingle laths were nailed, boards cut, fastened crosswise, 

 then came two inches of rough cement grouting lightened with ashes, 

 and tarred paper across the top of the beams. Diagonal boarding 

 was next nailed V-shape as a brace, covered with felt, and finally the 

 finished, selected, grained, planed, and sand-papered, filled and waxed 

 T & G red birch floor was laid a floor that made the knees of the 

 carpenters ache, but joyed the beholder. For extra warmth and 

 dryness the under sides of floor beams could have been papered, then 

 ceiled and whitewashed, or covered with cold water paint, but it 

 would have been an unnecessary expense, and done at the possible 

 risk of inviting dry rot. 



In one corner under the kitchen, we blasted out and cemented 

 a furnace pit and vegetable cellar. This, with the big storeroom 

 above ground, did away with the need for a full sized cellar, and 

 supplies were more easily handled. 



Satisfactory Guest Rooms. 



The second story of Restcliff belonged to our guests, and was 

 seldom vacant. There were two suites with bath, and wide bal- 

 conies front and rear, reached by a covered staircase connecting the 

 lower south balcony with that on the second story. Later a limb 

 breaker and weather shelterer crawled upward against the interior 

 wall of the living room. An eight foot ceiling and a six foot space 

 meant winders and staggering eight and a half inch risers. 



The Sanitary Cellarless House. 



When properly constructed, I believe the healthiest and driest 

 house is that which is cellarless, and the healthiest place to sleep in 

 our climate is above the first story, hence one great advantage of the 

 two-story bungalow. The attractive low effect can be retained by 

 using a four to six foot overhang, which also cools the side walls, 

 and a long sloping roof pierced with eyebrow windows.* Lift roof 

 windows are more picturesque, less aggressive and less expensive 

 than the usual Gothic dormer. The kick-up rafter roof, as it is 

 realistically called, plus wide overhang and broad veranda or porch 

 room are three motifs that stamp comfort as well as grace in the 

 exterior lines of a bungalow more than any others. In a twenty-five 

 foot rafter the curve or kick-up must be at least six to ten inches; 

 a two-inch rise is scarcely perceptible as I learned by experience. 

 The quicker decay of shingle in this form of construction is over- 

 balanced by picturesque effect. I built a kick-up rafter roof twenty- 

 five years ago and the shingles are still fairly good. If desired, it 

 can be restricted to the veranda roof, a slight saving in cost, but 

 giving less graceful curves. It is usually inexpensively made by a 



; ' : The "eyebrow" is more expensive than the lift but on some roofs more appropriate. 



