November, 1909 
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Fig. 1|—First floor plan 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
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Fig. 2—The house is delightfully shaded with fine old trees 
A Group of Modern Houses at Nutley, New Jersey 
Costing From $1,000 to $5,000 
By Francis Durando Nichols 
2iYO ONE, who has not set out to do it, has 
any notion of the exceeding difficulty of 
erecting a good house for one’s own use at 
a very moderate cost. It is very much 
easier to do it for another fellow than for 
yourself, as you always know exactly what 
other people are entitled to, at least for a 
given sum of money, and you also know that certain things 
very essential to your own comfort are quite unnecessary 
Fig. 3—A roof with ample room for two stories 
and uncalled for when it comes to someone else. But start 
to do your own building for a set sum, and, in most cases, 
you will wish you hadn’t. 
But in all seriousness the problem is a difficult one, and 
it is becoming more and more difficult every day, not only 
with the increased cost of building material and of labor, 
but with the demand for new conveniences in the home, 
new appliances, many of which are very useful and desir- 
able, but since every addition to a house means an additional 
Fig. 4—A second floor plan 
