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convenient nor seemly. Here is only one evidence that 
popular taste among small house builders is more cryingly 
in need of architectural education than in any other quarter. 
It is little short of criminal to encourage a thing thoroughly 
ugly and offensive to the sight when it can as easily be made 
comely. For a very small additional expense for an ar- 
chitect’s services most of the ordinary builder’s eyesores 
that so offend us could have been made at least unobjec- 
tionable. 
The array of houses of very moderate cost, set forth in 
the accompanying illustrations, ought in some measure to 
refute the notion that a house must needs be expensive 
because it is well planned. With the application of a 
measure of ingenuity and thought it is surprising how 
much can be accomplished. 
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Living-hall of the house Sorts $5,500 
May, 1912 
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The little square house for $5,500 is a paragon of con- 
venience and compactness. There is not an inch of waste 
room in it. The front door opens directly into the living- 
hall whose chief feature of architectural adornment is a 
generous fireplace and a massive chimney jamb of uncut 
stone like that used in the outer walls. On the south and 
west, wide windows pour in a flood of light and on the 
north is a range of three diamond-paned casements, useful 
for air and light in Summer when the glare from the 
south window is cut off by the outside shutters. At one side 
of the fireplace a doorway opens into the dining-room, 
a cheerful place abundantly lighted by a long bow window, 
that takes in nearly the whole south side, and a smaller one 
on the east. It is always a good thing to have plenty of 
morning sunshine in the dining-room or the breakfast-room; 
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Second floor plan 
