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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, 1910 



Fig. 15 — The house has a coating of rough caste 



The vestibule and hall are in combination, the only divi- 

 sion being the screen which divides the staircase from the 

 vestibule, and which forms the balustrade of the staircase. 

 Both the vestibule and staircase are oak finished in a Flem- 

 ish brown The 

 walls are tinted a 

 soft gray. 



Opening from the 

 vestibule is the liv- 

 ing-room, which is 

 finished in mahog- 

 any, while the walls 

 are tinted a soft 

 green tone. It has 

 an open fireplace 

 built of brick, with 

 the facings and the 

 hearth of a similar 

 material, and the 

 whole i s finished 

 with a mantel shelf. 



A hood archway 

 opens into the din- 

 ing-room, which is 

 trimmed with oak 

 and fi n i s h e d in 

 Flemish brown. It 



Fig. I 7 — First-floor plan 



Fig. 1 6 — Another view of Fig. I 5 



architectural merit for a small amount of money, is one of 

 the questions which rises in the mind of all home-builders of 

 modest means, and particularly, to-day, when the cost of 

 building is steadily on the increase as it has been for the 

 past four or five years. This is a problem 

 that the architect has to solve the best he can 



for his client, and it 

 is no easy matter to 

 do this, for the rea- 

 son that in addition 

 to this extra cost of 

 building there are 

 so many modern 

 devices for the 

 homeseeker to in- 

 stall in a house at 

 the present time 

 that this additional 

 expense is consider- 

 able. But as these 

 devices are all labor 

 savers there is no 

 way to escape this 

 additional outlay of 

 money. 



Every possible 

 method of the 



■ig- 



1 8 — Second-floor plan 



has a plate-rack extending around the room at the height 

 of seven feet. The kitchen and the pantries are fitted com- 

 plete. 



The second floor 

 has a white painted 

 trim and doors 

 stained and finished 

 in mahogany. The 

 bathroom is treated 

 with white enamel, 

 and is furnished 

 with porcelain fix- 

 tures and exposed 

 nickel-plated plumb- 

 ing. 



The cellar con- 

 tains a laundry, a hot 

 water heating sys- 

 tem and fuel-rooms. 



The house cost 

 $5,250, including 

 the heating, gas and 

 electric fixtures. 



To build artistic 

 houses, or even 

 houses with some 



Fig. 1 9 — Small lighted windows break the severe lines of the house 



strictest economy has to be practised, not only by the home- 

 seeker, but by the architect to enable him to produce a 

 house that will be a credit to him, and that will meet the 



requirements of the 

 man for whom it is 

 built. 



It is to a certain 

 extent an easy mat- 

 ter to build a large 

 house when there is 

 no limit to the ex- 

 pense, but when you 

 consider that the 

 wants of the mod- 

 ern family are quite 

 equal to the man 

 who builds a much 

 larger house, one 

 can reaaily see that 

 the problem is a 

 more difficult one to 

 settle. That the 

 architects of the 

 houses illustrated 

 herewith have 

 solved this problem 



