HOUSE AND GARDEN 
1913 
46s 
The elevations show the proportions of roof structure. If the slope is 
too steep, turf may not be used 
type. There was, at first, an open hearth or fireplace in the cen¬ 
ter of the big room or hall, the smoke escaping through a hole 
in the ridge of the roof, and later on a regular fireplace, a pejs 
(now again often used) with its own chimney. The long fixed 
benches along the walls by degrees gave way to movable fur- 
First Floor 
j i i i J t 3**" 
A large living-room is the main feature of the ground plan. The 
svalegang is called balcony in this plan 
niture and the invasion of advancing civilization made itself 
felt in several directions. The house became two storied, though 
only in a portion at first, which necessitated the introduction of 
a ceiling - , a hitherto unknown structural feature in the log cabin, 
but the roof, at the ridge of which the beams met at a somewhat 
1 here is no excavated foundation to the log cabins of Sweden, but the house rests upon the ground and a foundation of heavy stones. The 
leaded windows with solid shutters are characteristic. Nearly all the partitioning is structural, as may be seen from the log ends projecting 
at either side of the row of windows 
