AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



January, 19 13 



An attractive small house of this type can be tastefully and comfortably furnished at a moderate cost if judgment is exercised in the selection of 



its furnishings 



The Cost of Furnishing a Small House 



By Ida J. Burgess 

 Photographs by T. C. Turner 



HE selection of suitable furnishings for a 

 small house within a reasonable cost is a 

 problem perennially confronting home- 

 makers. Individual requirements are so 

 varied (as likewise are those of families 

 differing one from the other in size and in 



it is the empty house which conjures up for one the vision 

 of furnishings to one's own requirements. The frontis- 

 piece to this number and the exterior photographs here re- 

 produced suggest the delightful aspect the small house may 

 assume, an exterior which leads one to look for the furnish- 

 ings in such a house to be as inviting and satisfactory. Of 

 course there are always the obvious necessities that imme- 

 diately find enumeration. The living-room must have its 

 chairs, its table, its bookcase, rugs for the floor, curtains for 



The dining- 



Bedroom 



Bedroom 



tastes), that it would be difficult in any single article on the 

 subject to do more than present, as here, an outline of 

 possibilities that present themselves to the limited purse, 



possibilities that are still in complete accord with the strict the windows and portieres for the doorways 

 canons of good taste. 

 The photographs 

 of interiors here re- 

 produced have been 

 taken from the un- 

 furnished rooms of 

 an interesting house 

 whose type may be 

 considered as ex- 

 emplifying the small 

 house of interesting 

 design, and unfur- 

 nished rooms are 

 thus shown by rea- 

 son of the fact that 



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Bedroom 



Bedroom 



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Floor plans of the small house illustrated on this page selected as an interesting type of dwelling 

 which can be furnished by a moderate expenditure 



room must have a 

 table, chairs and a 

 rug certainly, china 

 and glassware as 

 well as a serving- 

 table to meet the 

 needs of this room 

 in the routine of 

 daily life, and the 

 kitchen will have 

 to have a range, 

 table, chairs and 

 working utensils. 

 These last are so 

 greatly dependent 



