The Country House 



Three chimneys adapted to designs 

 in the English style. Each suggests 

 the number of flues it carries 



Up to 8 inches or so in diameter they can be turned from a solid stick. If 

 in excess of this, the made-up hollow column is preferable, owing to the invariable 

 tendency of large, solid sticks to "check" or crack. There are several patent 



made-up columns on the market which 

 are worth considering. 



All steps, whether of stone 01 wood, 

 should have a slight pitch, to effect the 

 shedding of water. If of wood they 

 should be of the best Georgia pine, 2^ 

 inches wide by ij thick, laid with open 

 joints. A step made up of 2 x i^ inches, 

 set edgewise, furred inch apart at 

 intervals of I foot and bolted together 

 through each furring, makes a better, 

 though more expensive, job. 



Stone steps are preferable to wood. 

 Even in a flight of wooden steps the 



lower one should be of stone. Granite is perhaps the best stone to use, unless 

 there be other and different stone in the house which it is advisable to duplicate. 



INTERIOR DETAILS 



Wooden bases are set prior to laying the upper floor. In this w r ay any 

 shrinkage at the bottom is not noticeable, and the upper floor, butting against it, 

 can easily be taken up and replaced. In the best classes of work a small quarter 

 round is inserted into the angle between base and flooring, so that the floor may be 

 more easily swept. With a tile floor, tile or marble bases are preferable to wood. 

 Ordinary upper floors are best of Southern pine, i. e., hard pine from which 

 the pitch has been extracted. Floors that are to be exposed are better of rift 

 Georgia pine. More expensive floors can be laid in any of the hard woods 



used for that purpose, such as oak or maple. 



Upper floors should be laid of matched stock, blind 

 nailed, and not exceeding 3 inches in width. They 

 ^| should be clear stock, free from knots, sap and shakes. 



There should be one thickness of building or asbestos 

 paper between the rough and top floor- 

 ing. This serves to some extent as a 

 deafening, and in the case of the asbestos, 

 as a fireproofing. 



Parquet floors are usually laid by 

 the people who manufacture them. 

 These specialists understand their busi- 



t-** ?^ ^Bfr'" r * i , , . . 



ness better than the ordinary carpenter, 

 and a superior job is the result. 



To prevent sound from travelling 



Showing an open cornice, leader, moulded siding and water- r 



table, an of good design through a floor it is best that a concrete, 



