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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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DESIGN FOR A SMALL BRACKETED COTT-SGK. 



and taste attained in that simple manner so appropri- 

 ate to a small cottage. 



Accommodation. — The plan of the first floor of 

 this cottage sliows an entry, six by twelve feet, 

 containing a flight of stairs to the chamber floor, 

 under which are stairs to the cellar. On the left is 

 tho living-room of tlie family, fifteen by seventeen 

 feet. The deep chimney-breast at the end of the 

 room gives space for two large closets. The bay- 

 window measures six feet in the opening (in the 

 clear) and is three feet deep. 



eROUND PLAN. 



On the right of the entry is the kitchen, a small 

 room, ten by twelve feet. As the living-room of the 

 family will, in a great measure, be also tho kitchen, 

 this small kitchen will in fact be used as a hack- 

 kitchen for tlio rough work, washing, etc., so that 

 in summer, and, indeed, at at any time, the living- 

 room ca?i be made to have the comfortable aspect of 

 a cottage parlor, by confining the rough work to the 

 kitchen proper. Back of this kitchen is a small 

 lean-to addition, containing a small pantry, four by 

 six feet, and a place for coals. There is a small 

 passage between this closet or pantry and the coal- 

 hole, and opposite the door opening from the kitchen 

 into this passage, is a door which serves as a back 

 door to enter the kitchen without going in the front 

 entrance. 



The cliamber floor lias two bed rooms each nine by 

 fifteen feet, and one bed room ten by twelve feet. 



Variation of the Plan. — This plan may be 

 easily varied, so as to give a more agreeable and 



symmetrical effect, witli little additional cost. To 

 do this, lessen the depth of the chimney-breast at the 

 end of the room, and reject the two cln-ets there. 

 This would make the living-room two and a half feet 

 longer, or fifteen by nineteen feet six inches. Next 

 place the bay-window exactly in the centre of the 

 wall, which would add to rbe external symmetry. 

 By turning the place for coals into a closet, with a 

 door opening into the living-room, and having a wood- 

 house or coal-house detached, space would be gained 

 and the arrangement would be more pleasing, though, 

 perhaps, not quite so convenient. 



Construction. — The construction of this cottage is 

 the same as that in last number. Planed-and-matched 

 or rough boards may housed for the vertical weather- 

 boarding ; we should prefer to have them rough (if 

 the cottage is fillod-in,) and painted and sanded. 



We have shown in this cottage the simplest form 

 of cottage window — that is, the casement window 

 opening in two p^ts from top to bottom. Theee 

 sashes are less expensive than rising sashes with 

 weights, but more so than those without weights. — 

 The latticed sash with diamond panes we have intro- 

 duced as more significant of a cottage. Indeed, 

 there is something in the associations connected with 

 latticed windows so essentially rural and cottage-like, 

 that the mere introductiofi of thorn gives an air of 

 poetry to a house in tljc country. 



The chimney-tops are built of brick, in a very sim- 

 ple, but, at the same time, more tasteful manner than 

 the heavy brick stacks usually seen. 



The front door is merely covered with a hood on 

 brackets. Its beauty would be enhanced by making 

 this canopy or hood bolder and extending it five feet, 

 making tlie sides of lattice work and covering the 

 wliole with vines. 



Estimate. — The whole cost of this cottage, on 

 the Hudson river, would be S512. in tho interior, 

 where wood is cheaper, it may be built for )|tOO. 

 In this, we include a cellar under the kitchen and 

 entry, but not under the living-room. The founda- 

 tion walls of the latter should be laid three and a half 

 feet below the level of the ground. 



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