A SUPERB BUILDING NUMBER NEXT 
/ Fyou are getting ready to build or ever intend to build, or arc just interested in a country 
or suburban home, you want the great Annual Building Number of House Garden. 
7'his issue is considered by many of our friends the most important magazine of the 
year. Of course, every issue of House Garden is designed for the home planner, home 
builder and garden maker, but in the Annual Building Number we take up particularly 
the subject of actual building and remodeling and the problems which they involve. This 
year we are making a number especially rich in suggestion and information which none 
interested, however remotely, in home-making can afford to miss. 
Perhaps your building problems are already solved, but you want to increase the beauty 
and comfort of your home and its surroundings. House Garden is filled with descrip¬ 
tions and pictures of beautiful homes where owner or architect has created individuality and 
charm at small expenditure. It zvill help you, too, with hints and suggestions. 
We cannot give the complete contents of the Building Number yet, but here are a few of the good things which you shall'have: 
TIIK FIREPROOF HOUSE. — The steadily increasing cost of wood con¬ 
struction together with the many improvements in materials and meth¬ 
ods for fireproof construction is bringing about a new era of build¬ 
ing. The article tells all about the methods of building fireproof walls, 
floors and roofs with some interesting information as to the architectural 
treatment of these materials. 
WHAT THE PERIOD STYLES REALLY ARE, IV.—The fourth install¬ 
ment of this splendid series of articles—taking up this time the marvel¬ 
ous work of Chippendale, Sheraton, Ilepplewhite and the other famous 
English cabinet makers. 
THE POSSIBILITIES IX DISTINCTIVE HARDWARE.—How to avoid 
the commonplace in choosing door locks, casement openers, window 
lifts and the many other bits of finish hardware that can make or mar 
a home. 
LIGHTING FIXTURES OF CHARACTER.—The wonderful improvement 
that has been made in recent years in this branch of interior decora¬ 
tion. Suggestions for fixtures that will harmonize with any style, and 
new forms that have many advantages. 
SUGGESTIONS FROM GERMAN AND ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSES. 
— What the progressive and at times radical German architects and the 
more sedate English architects can teach us about home building. 
HOW TO READ ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS.—The shorthand of 
plans and elevations. How to understand clearly just what your house 
is going to be in advance. 
LAYING OUT THE SUBURBAN PLACE.—A piece of sound advice by 
Mr. E. P. Powell, the well-known authority on country living. 
THE FOUR BEST EVERGREENS.—Mr. Arthur Herrington, landscape 
architect, tells which of the many available species are best suited to our 
own climate and what effects may be secured through their judicious use. 
THE PROBLEM OF THE BATHROOM.—Everyone wants plenty of bath¬ 
rooms in a new house, but they are expensive. The article tells how 
separate fixtures such as the shower, for instance, may be put in bed¬ 
rooms, and just what it means in alterations and cost to put new plumb¬ 
ing in an old house. 
THE REAL MEANING AND USE OF ARCHITECTURAL DETAIL — 
The first of a series by Mr. Louis Boynton, architect, telling what detail 
is properly used with Colonial architecture, both outside and in, and why. 
THE BEST USE OF BRICKWORK.—There are far more ways of laving 
brickwork than most people think. How you can secure individuality 
in a brick wall or in smaller bits of brick construction, such as a fire¬ 
place facing. 
A page of pictures showing in detail some twentieth century kitchens. 
Photographs and plans of two moderate size homes of distinction. 
The usual Departments of Inside the House, Garden Suggestions and Queries 
and Ingenious Devices. 
Every number of HOUSE GARDEN is superbly illustrated, but we think the pictures which will fill the Building Number are the most beautiful and the most 
intensely suggestive we have ever secured. From the superb front cover in full color to the last word in the magazine it will be a number Ions: to be remembered. 
The Building: Number will be on all news-stands about December 23rd, but w ill be promptly sold out just as it was last year. If you are not already among: the 
goodiv company of HOUSE & GARDEN subscribers why not send us $3, in a check or bills, and let us send you HOUSE fe? GARDEN for an entire year ? Its cost 
is a mere trifle and besides helping you wonderfully w ith inspiration and suggestion it may save you lOO times its cost in preventing some costly mistake. But 
whether you subscribe or not be sure to read the Annual Building Number—HOUSE & GARDEN for January, 1911. 
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