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A mid-western type of plaster and shingles built by Tallmadge & 
Watson, architects, at Oak Park, Ill. 
The living-room is found in the projecting wing shown at the right 
of the adjoining illustration 
bedrooms strung along a long straight corridor. While that is 
to be expected in a hotel, it is assuredly not desirable in a private 
dwelling. It is a difficult matter to lay down any hard-and-fast 
rules for bungalow planning, but I think it will usually be found 
that an arrangement providing for a large living-room or hall 
extending through the middle of the building from front to rear, 
from which open at both sides the bedrooms and dining-room, 
with the kitchen and service 
portion extending out be¬ 
yond the latter, will form an 
excellent basis upon which 
to develop the final layout. 
With this scheme the bath¬ 
room, or bathrooms, may 
offer some difficulty, though 
these may probably be 
planned to come between 
two adjacent bedrooms, op¬ 
ening into each. 
The piazza, of course, is 
one of the essentials, but it 
will be well to provide for 
this so that it will not dark¬ 
en too much of the interior. 
Usually there is no great ob¬ 
jection in having it cross 
the bedroom windows, since 
these rooms are not required 
to be so bright. In the typi¬ 
cal arrangement that has 
been suggested, the piazza 
could be carried across the 
entire front or rear, as the 
exigencies of the land may 
require, its roof being brok¬ 
en, in the space adjoining the 
living-room, by a section of 
uncovered rafters in a sort of 
pergola motive, upon which 
not - too - enthusiastic vines 
may be allowed to climb. 
As to the materials of 
which the bungalow shall be 
built, there is a fairly wide 
choice — shingles, cement, 
field-stone, logs, slabs on an 
ordinary stud frame, or even common rough boards, overlapping 
if nailed horizontally to the framework, or battened with narrow 
strips if put on vertically from siil to roof-plate. 
Logs, while undoubtedly picturesque and harmonious with 
the informal character of the building, are usually unsatisfactory. 
Their use requires skilled and experienced labor, and even when 
well put together, they are apt to give trouble after a year or so, 
through the visitation of borers that get under the bark and start 
decay. Slabs, which are the first cuts from the four sides of 
a log, are usually obtainable at a very low cost if there is a saw- 
An interesting combination of brick piers and plaster on wood frame, 
at Belle Terre, L. I. Aymar Embury, architect 
A western coast bungalow that displays a remarkably daring utilization 
of modified Japanese motives 
A plan that is remarkable for the 
small amount of hall space 
Plans of the $3000 bungalow at 
Berkeley, Cal., illustrated in the 
frontispiece 
