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l-'AUM HOMES, IN-DOORS AND OUT-DOORS. 



fully bright and cosy. A wide-arched door, seldom 

 closed, between the sitting and dining-rooms permits 

 both apartments to be flooded with light from the large 

 south window, and these, together with the west bed- 



WEST. 



EAST. 

 Fig. 5. A ONE-STORY HOUSE. 



X, Portico ; S, Sitting-room ; D, Dining-room ; B, B, Bedrooms ; c, <?, 



Clothes-press and Bath-room ; K, K, Summer and Winter Kitchens ; 



P, M, Pantry and Milk-room ; W, Wood-house. 



room, are all comfortably warmed in winter by one good 

 wood or coal stove. 



Number six is the ground plan of a small house perch- 

 ed nest-like upon a picturesque knoll with its dark pines 

 and brilliant maples. Within doors it is quite airy and 

 regal because of its high walls, wide windows, and the 

 graceful arch opening opposite the entrance, displaying 

 the gay little dining-room with its large east window 

 filled with plants. On the second floor are two capacious 

 bedrooms and a small room for clothing, bedding, etc. 

 Among small farm-homes one seldom sees a more 

 thoroughly satisfactory plan than this combining as it 

 does comfort, cheapness, and economy. A man and wife 

 just beginning house-keeping might exist very passably 

 by dispensing with the upper story and adding a small 

 wing for kitchen and extra bedroom, devoting the space 

 occupied by the stair-case to china and linen closets. But 

 the cost of the upper floor is comparatively small, and it 



