A Book for House-Builders and Home-Makers 
EDITED BY HENRY H. SAYLOR 
C This book has been published in response to an ever-increasing demand for a volume of pictures, plans 
and descriptions of the most charming homes in this country—not the great estates and show places, 
but the sort of places that most of us can look forward to building, ranging in cost from $3,000 to $20,000. 
The illustrations, of which there are more than three hundred, both of the exteriors of houses and their 
garden settings, apd of the principal rooms inside, are all from photographs of houses already built, 
reproduced in superb half-tone engravings, with line drawings of the floor plans. 
The carefully selected contents includes country homes, seashore cottages, alluring bungalows, in- 
expensively remodeled farmhouses, etc. All the desirable architectural styles are represented: 
Colonial, English Half-timber, Stucco, Cement. Dutch Colonial (the gambrel roof type), Swiss Chalet, 
etc. Chapters written by authorities cover all sides of the fascinating problem of house-building, in¬ 
terior decoration and furnishing. The relations between the home-builder and his architect, the mat¬ 
ter of plans, specifications, contracts, the puzzling problem of extras and how to avoid them—all these 
subjects are clarified in a most comprehensive and interesting way. Throughout the text are many 
pages of pictures illustrating constructive, decorative and furnishing details—entrance doorways, bay 
windows, outside shutters, chimneys, stairways, dormer windows, built-in china-cupboards, consistently 
furnished interiors, porches—all grouped so that the reader may,-at a glance, compare all the best types. 
Important Subjects Covered 
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I he chapter headings indicate the general scope of the text matter in the book, together with which is the finest col¬ 
lection of moderate-sized homes in good taste that has ever been brought together. 
Chapter T. The Home builder and the Architect 
II. Building Materials: Their Respective Merits, 
Defects and Costs 
III. Constructive Details: the Roof, the Cellar, 
Windows 
IV. The Porch, the Terrace, Enclosed Porches 
and Sleeping Porches 
V. The Fireplace 
VI. Heating Systems and Water Supply 
Chapter VII. Lighting Systems and Lighting Fixtures 
VIII. Built-in Conveniences, Wainscoting and Book¬ 
cases. 
IX. Floors and Floor Coverings 
X. Wall Coverings, Portieres and-Window Dra¬ 
peries 
XI. Furnishing and Decorating the Bedroom 
XII. Furniture 
XIII. Picture Hanging and Ornaments 
XIV. The Garage 
C Distinctive Homes of Moderate Cost is the most complete and authoritative volume on the subject yet published. It 
is a sumptuous'book, siz r e 10 x7m inches, superbly printed on plate paper, tastefully bound. Price $2.00 net. By 
mail, postage, 30c. 
DISTINCTIVE 
HOMES 
OF MODERATE 
COST 
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McBRIDE, WINSTON &-» CO. Publishers, 
449 Fourth Avenue, New York 
Please send me DISTINCTIVE HOMES OF 
Moderate Cost, postpaid, for which I 
enclose $ 2.30 
McBride, Winston Co. 
PUBLISHERS 
449 Fourth Avenue, New York 
Name- • • 
Address- 
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