ORNAMENTING NEW HOMES. 25 



the housework is to be done by members of the family, the 

 kitchen and dining-room should be easily accessible to the 

 sitting- or living-room, and every possible arrangement for 

 comfort and ease of doing the work should be provided. 

 If servants are to be employed, and such often becomes a 

 necessity, then the kitchen should be as remote from the 

 sitting-room as is possible to avoid odors and noise, but 

 both kitchen and sitting-room should be easily accessible to 

 the dining-room. 



It is the practice of most of our people to build too high. 

 The house with most of the rooms on the first floor has a 

 hominess and brooding character that is especially adapted 

 to country life, and much time and effort is often saved 

 to the inmates by this style of building, though perhaps 

 the cost of building a given number of rooms may be 

 somewhat increased. In locations where the land is low 

 and fogs and dampness are prevalent and where land is 

 expensive the two- or even three-story building may be 

 advisable. 



An abundance of shelf- and closet-room should be con- 

 sidered as important as large rooms. Neatness, order, and 

 economy of time are thus encouraged in all of the inmates 

 by having a convenient place for everything and keeping 

 everything in proper condition in its proper place. Thera 

 should be an abundance of shed- and storage-room in the 

 outbuildings for the general comfort of all and for keeping 

 up the necessary outside work of the home. 



Sunlight in every room of the house is necessary for goo'l 

 health and should be provided for by the location and 

 architecture of the house. 



In the square-box house, though undoubtedly the cheap- 

 est to build, some of the rooms will receive but little 



