THE CULTIVATOR. 
July 
A COMMODIOUS FARM HOUSE. 
Eds. Cultivator— I herewith send you a plan and 
sketch of a commodious farm house. I have not en¬ 
deavored, in planning this house, to get the greatest 
number of rooms in a certain space, or to have it most 
showy at a given expense, but to make it everywhere 
convenient, commodious, and tasteful. 
The main house is thirty by thirty-two feet, two sto¬ 
ries high, with a large well-lighted garret. The rear 
is 23 by 28 feet, including the wood house, and is a 
story and a half high. The first story is intended to be 
ten feet high, the second nine. 
The kitchen is entered from without, either through the 
back veranda, or the wood-house, and is lighted by two 
windows looking out through the veranda. A. is the 
chamber stairway— B. the cellar do.— D. ash-bin— 
E. outside cellar stairs— F. large door for throwing in 
wood—O. cistern-pump, and platform. The dotted 
line in the wood-house represents the wall of the cistern. 
On the second floor, fig. 48, A. is the principal stair¬ 
way— B. bed-rooms— C. closets—D. is either a bed¬ 
room or lumber-room—if. if. halls—0. kitchen stairs— 
G. garret stairs. 
SITTING ROOM 
Ground Floor. —Fig. 47. 
By a glance at the plan, fig. 47, it will be seen that 
there is a verand* extending across the front of the 
house. Through this we enter the hall, which is light¬ 
ed by a window over the door; at the left, as we enter, 
is the principal stairway; on the right, is the parlor—a 
large and well-shaped room, with two windows on one 
side, looking out through the veranda, and one at the 
end, looking in another direction. Proceeding through 
the hall, we enter the sitting-room, which is lighted by 
a bay window in the end, and a door-window opening 
into the back veranda. From this room are doors ! 
opening directly into the parlor, bed-room, and kitchen. 
The bed-room, with the clothes-press C., is lighted by 
one window, and has a door opening into the kitchen. 
It will be seen by the perspective view above given, 
that the house is intended to be built in the bracketed 
style. I adopted this style in preference to the rural 
gothic, not because I consider it more beautiful, but be¬ 
cause it is less likely to be carricatured by ignorant me¬ 
chanics, or fashionably ambitious imitators. There is 
now such a passion for gothic dwellings, that the coun¬ 
try will soon be blotched with all kinds of gabled and 
rustic fantastics, and the style will be burlesqued to such 
an extravagant degree as to become odious. When dis- 
! played in proper situations in the country, the pictu¬ 
resque beauties of rural gothic dwellings are unrivalled. 
But to see such dwellings put on town lots, or in flat, 
bare fields, inspires the same aversion as would a bald 
