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THE GENESEE FAKMEB 



CHAMBER PLAN. 



-SUBURBAN COTTAGE. 



everything neat and orderly in appearance round the building, and give it a refined 

 character in keeping with its more exposed exterior. 



" The height of the rooms on this floor is ten feet in the clear, tlie walls to be prepared 

 fur paper, and the inside finish of doors and windows of the simplest, plainest description. 



" The sleeping accommodation in the 

 floor above is adequate to the comfort- 

 able use of a small family, and is 

 arranged as follows : 



"No. 1 is a hall, well-liglited and 

 roomy, containing the staircase from 

 below, and from which open the doors 

 into the several chambers. 



" No. 2 is a large room over the 

 dining-room and extending clear to a 

 line with the front of the house, the 

 recessed portion below being floored 

 over. From this room a window opens 

 upon a large balcony. No. 3, over the 

 truncated projection of the porch below. 

 The room is provided with a large closet for clothes, and a flue for a stove or fireplace. 



" No. 4 is a large linen-closet, well-lighted, and formed by the small entry from the 

 upper hall leading to rooms Nos. 5 and 6. 



" No. 5 is a small chamber or dressing-room, in which might be a bathing apparatus, 

 and serving either as a separate single room, a child's sleeping-room, or a dressing-room 

 connected with the larger chamber. No. 6, which is over the library or parlor below, and 

 is provided with a spacious clothes-closet and a flue for a stove or fire-place. 



" No. Y is over the kitchen, and has also a large closet and a fire-place, and No. 8 is 

 a servants' sleeping-room. This room is shut off from the other chambers by an entry 

 similar to that on the other side of the hall, and is sufficiently large for the purpose and 

 is well-liglited and ventilated. 



"No. 9 is a large store-room, well-lighted and airy — completing the accommodation 

 provided on this floor, and the compactness and convenience of the plan must, I think, 

 favorably recommend itself. 



" The rooms on this floor extend partly into the roof. The walls arc seven feet high 

 to the under side of the plate, and the ceiling follows the slope of the roof sufllciently 

 for to allow the rooms to be ten feet in the clear. The roof is so framed as to admit 

 this, and by such an arrangement greater internal height and airiness are obtained, with 

 more modest lowliness of the exterior. The sloping sides of the ceiling should be firred 

 down so as to leave a space of dead air (the most perfect non-conductor) between the 

 lathing and the covering of the roof; by this means the rooms will be always cool and 

 the additional height gained be very valuable. The room over the dining-room having 

 a gable over its ceilmg would be a higher and more symmetrical apartment than the 

 others, and hence might bp reserved as the guest-chamber, its large balcony making it 

 a very pleasant sitting place for ladies with their books or needle-work." 



Tlie author further remarlcs that the furniture and UnMx of such a liouse as this should be very 

 Bimple. The tables and chairs of oak, maple, or birch; in the summer the floor should lie covered 

 with India matting, and in winter with carpeting of the pattern called mosaic, and the colors orange 

 or crimson, and browTi or black, except for the parlor, which shoiild be a little more lively. Tlie 

 paper of oak pattern, or some other one-toned character. 



" Around the bay or projecting window, a low chintz-covered seat, excepting whore 

 the windows open to the veranda floor, or the door (if there be one) leads into the study 



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