HAT building in this coun- 
try at the present time is 
more expensive than it ever 
has been before is perfectly 
true, but with these high 
priced conditions, it is 
with some common sense, 
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quite possible, 
plenty of good taste and a careful architect, 
to build an attractive and serviceable house 
for comparatively little money. It is not 
money that makes comfort or beauty or 
artistic effects in a house. It is thought, 
and the day of the emancipation from the 
fallacy of the opposite belief is dawning. 
More crimes have been committed in the 
name of house building than in any other 
form of art. 
The problem of building inexpensive and 
artistic houses, houses with some merit in 
them, for people of modest means, who de- 
sire something beyond the commonplace 
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house so frequently seen, has been well 
2—Living-Room with Stone Fireplace 
solved, as shown by the illustrations presented herewith, and 
which have been built from the designs of architects who 
have given the subject a very careful study. To overcome 
the increase in the cost of building it has become necessary to 
adopt every possible economical means in order to produce 
all that is required for a well regulated house of simple con- 
struction and low cost. 
In the designing of a house of this character it should be 
well remembered, by both the client and the architect, that 
the most fruitful source whence the charm of design arises 
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Some Successful Small Houses Costing From $1,200 to $2,400 
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1—A Gambrel Roof House Costing $1,700 
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thoughtful —con- 
sideration in the 
comfort to be de- 
rived from them. 
Another econom- 
ical form in con- 
struction for the 
main rooms of the 
first floor is to 
have the second 
in anything is the grace with which it serves 
the purpose and conforms to its surround- 
ings, for art is primarily concerned with the 
making of the useful garments of life beau- 
tiful—not with the trimming of them. Do 
away with all unnecessary ornamentation ; 
leave the exterior walls untouched, when 
possible, in all the rich variety of color and 
tone, of light and shade; eliminate the hall 
and the parlor, which usually occupy the 
best position in the house, and build in their 
place a living-room, and, if well placed and 
carefully arranged, it will easily answer for 
both the hall and the parlor. Both of these 
suggestions will not only reduce the cost of 
building, but will more than repay for the 
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3—Plan of $1,700 House 
