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tages. It is preferable to a large apartment or tenement 

 house five, six or twenty -five stories high, with dark halls 

 and tiny rooms. 



A well-planned house. We may not be able to own 

 the house in which we live, still, since we are aiming at 

 ideal conditions, we ought to know something about house 

 planning. A study of the accompanying diagram will 



UVING!?OOM HAU, 



In what respects is this a good first floor plan ? Has it any defects 1 (After 

 Van Rensselaer.) 



show us a well-planned small house. What rooms are 

 necessary? What rooms could be dispensed with? In 

 a well-planned house, we have a hall, living room, dining 

 room, kitchen, and closets on the first floor, bedrooms 

 and bath on the second floor, and a well-ventilated base- 

 ment which is provided with a heating apparatus, vege- 

 table closet, storage room, and laundry. 



The floors of a house. Floors to be durable should 

 be made of hard wood, and should have an inconspicuous 



