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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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A SYMMETRICAL COTTAGE. 



Whoever loves symmetry and the simpler kind of 

 cottage beauty, including good proportion, tasteful 

 forms, and cliasteness of ornament, we think, cannot 

 but like this little design — since it unites all those 

 requisites. It is an illustration of a cottage made 

 ornamental with very trifling expense, and without 

 sacrificing truthfulness to tiiat kind of tasteful sim 

 plicity which is the true touchstone of cottage beauty. 

 This "cottage is designed in the rural Gothic or Eng- 

 lish manner, but much modified, so as to adapt it to 

 almost any site. 



The light, open porch of this cottage may be 

 omitted witliout injuring the design, but it gives the 

 front an air of so much feeling and refinement, aside 

 from its manifest utility, that we should always hope 

 to see it adopted by those about to execute the design. 



GROUND PLAN. 



Accommodation. — The kitchen is on the same 

 floor with the living-room. Many families would 

 prefer to use the room marked " parlor" in the plan, 

 as a bed-room, and, if so used, the cottage would be 



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bed-room on this floor, a parlor would be looked upon 

 as far more important. 



In the plan, A is the porch, from which w'e enter 

 the hall or entry, 8 feet wide — with the two best 

 rooms, each 16 by 18 feet, on either side of it. Con- 

 nected with the living-room, in its rear, is a good 

 pantry. B is the back-entry communicating with the 

 kitchen. C is the back-porch, which may be left open 

 in summer and enclosed in winter, when it will serve 

 as a place for coal and wood. On one side of the 

 kitclien fire-place is a closet, and on the other a sink, 

 into which, if possible, a water-pipe should be brought. 



The first story of this cottage is supposed to be 

 10 feet, and the chamber story 6 feet on the sides, 

 and 8 feet in the middle of the rooms. The pitch of 

 the roof is a right angle. 



As the entry, or hall, of this plan is wide, and the 

 arrangements both simple and convenient, we think 

 it will be difficult to build a more agreeable cottage, 

 for the sum proposed, than the present design. — 

 Though picturesque in its exterior, it is not so much 

 so as to demand a highly rural or picturesque site, 

 but would look equally well either in the suburbs of 

 a town or in the midst of the country. 



The chimneys in the elevation show one of the 

 forms made in Garnkirk fire clay. These are sold 

 by the importers (Jas. Lee U Co., New York and 

 Boston) at from $4 to $6 each. The base of this 

 chimney (of common brick work) should be carried 

 up a couple of feet above the level of the ridge of the 

 roof before the chimney-tops are set. 



Co.xsTRUCTioN. — The exterior of this cottage is 

 vertical boarding— of planed and matched floor plank 

 about ten inches wide. Tlie window frames are from 

 three to three and a half feet, inside measure — with 

 a centre muUion and latticed sashes. The roof of 

 the porch is nearly flat and roofed with tin, so as to 

 form a balcony to the bed-room window over it. 



The house is, of course, filled in with brick on 

 edge, sot flush with the outside of the frame, and the 

 inside walls plastered on the face of the brick. 



Estimate. — The cost of this cottage, with the inte- 

 rior neatly finished and painted in oil color, and the two 

 principal rooms grained and varnished like oak, and 



a very complete one for a small family — having., ^.^ ^ 



'iving-room, bed-room, pantry, etc., on the same | their walls papered with suitable paper— all the other 

 Soor. But to others who would prefer to have no I walls being brown walls white-washed, would be $83o. 



