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HO USE & GARDEN 
Whether there shall be much shade or very little is a matter 
of taste and of luck in choosing a site. Thus, for some this 
type of embowered cottage is vastly preferable to the solitary 
Italian house on the previous page 
For the moderate purse no form of country house excels the 
bungalow. It should be comfortably roomy, but not so large 
as to require much work in caring for it. Other types of 
bungalows can be seen on page 35 
ner for the country home-maker in some other locality to 
whom a half-timber house, in turn, would be but an archi¬ 
tectural white elephant, so far as his personal requirements or 
the community contact was concerned. I think many people 
approach the problem of a house in the country burdened 
with traditional fears inspired by the wretchedly misleading 
old saying that a man must 
build three houses before 
he can arrive at one that 
will suit him. 
True it is that some 
home-makers have lived in 
(one might with accuracy 
say through ) not only 
three, but half a dozen 
houses before accepting 
one as being suited to 
their needs. But such are 
the exceptions, and one 
cannot conceive why, with 
intelligence, thought and 
forethought, the first house 
cannot at the same time be 
the only house, and that 
from choice and content¬ 
ment. After all, satisfaction 
may follow common sense. 
This belief in the theory of experience being the only re¬ 
liable teacher in the school of house building is bad enough, but 
there is also another thing which is apt to lurk in the minds 
of prospective country dwellers. Somewhere back in the dark 
ages there originated the myth, as deeply rooted as Igdraysl, 
that if a man was told by his architect a certain house would 
cost $5,000, that house was 
sure to cost $8,000 before 
the home-maker was 
through with it. Ergo, the 
opprobrium of the suspi¬ 
cion came by custom to be 
heaped upon the head of 
the architect. 
I suppose few home¬ 
makers planning to build 
in the country realize how 
prone they are to desire or 
to require changes in the 
plans of the house during 
the progress of the work 
of building. Such changes 
are, almost always, added 
expenses. Again, the inex¬ 
perienced home-b u i 1 d e r 
may expect to save a 
goodly amount by letting 
The square Colonial style lends 
itself to a country setting 
and is roomy and comfortable 
Equally attractive is the Colonial 
farmhouse set beneath large trees 
and surrounded with shrubbery 
Rounded arches along the first 
story give a country house a 
desirable sense of spaciousness 
