GOITAGE BUILDING. 



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DESIGN FOR A SMALL COTTAGE. 



it would be better not to make it communicate. In- 

 deed, witli a little nicety of construction, there is space 

 enough to retain a small closet for the living-room, 

 and still have these two rooms connected. 



GROUND PLAN. 



»' The living-room is 12 by 18 feet, a convenient size 

 for daily use. It is lighted by a window on each side, 

 and the chimney being nearly in the centre of the 

 house, no heat will be lost in the winter. Near one 

 corner of the opposite side of this room is a door 

 opening into a small pantry which is lighted by a 

 window, and at the opposite corner is another door 

 opening into a narrow porch. We have cut off the 

 passage to form this small porch, in order to protect 

 the back door, which opens iuto the main apartment 

 of the family, from sudden draughts and cold blasts, 

 a point most important in a northern climate, but too 

 often neglected, to the serious discomfort of the in- 

 mates of small cottages. From this back porch 

 another door will be seen opening into a small wood- 

 house, so that fuel maybe had without going into 

 the open air. This wood-house is represented of 

 small size, but it maybe extended in depth several 

 feet, if more room is wanted. 



The second floor of this cottage contains two good 

 sleeping rooms, and two large closets. There are no 



fire-places, but openings are left for stove-pipes in the 

 flues, so that one or both rooms can be warmed. 



There is a cellar under this cottage, and the outer 

 cellar door should be provided just beneath the pantry 

 window, if no more convenient position is found for it. 



Cottages of this size usually have the stairs placed 

 in the living-room, while the front door opens direct- 

 ly into one of the apartments. We think, in this 

 respect, our plan has much greater comfort and con- 

 venience to recommend it. 



Construction. — This cottage is to be built of wood, 

 and the weather-boarding is to be put on in the ver- 

 tical manner, with battens nailed over the joints. 



In many parts of the country, where lumber planed 

 by machinery is not' easily obtained, we would use 

 inch boards rough, or without planing, and put them 

 on with square edges (not matched.) The batten 

 completely covers the joint. This will cheapen the 

 cottage considerably, if planing is to be done by 

 hand; and for all outbuildings and cheap cottages, 

 rough boarding, either painted and sanded, or washed 

 over by the cottager himself with a cheap wash,* 

 produces an effect even more satisfactory to the eye, 

 because more rustic and picturesque than planed 

 boards. 



* Cin-:Ai' Wash for Cottagks of Wood. — Take a cle.an barrel 

 that will hold water. Put io it half a bushel of fresh i|uick-lime, 

 and slake it by pouring over it boiling water sufficient to cover it 

 four or five inches deep, and stirring it till slaked. When quite 

 slaked, dissolve iu water and add 2 lbs. of sulphate of zinc (white 

 vitriol) which in a few weeks will cause the wliito-wash to harden 

 on the wood work. Xii sufficient water to bring it to the consist- 

 ency of thick white wash. To make the above wash a pleasing 

 cieam color, add 4 lbs. of yellow ochre. For a fawn color, take 4 

 lbs. umber, 1 lb. Indian red, and K lb. lampblack. (Lampblack, 

 when mixed with water colors, should first be thoroughly dissolvecl 

 in alcohol.) To make the wash grey or stone color, add 1 Ib^raw 

 umber and 2 lbs. lampblack. The color may be put on with a 

 white-wash brush. 



