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A HOMELIKE AND BEAUTIFUL CRAFTSMAN FARMHOUSE

IF there is any one style of house that we enjoy planning more than others, it is a farmhouse, —a home that shall meet every practical requirement of life and work on the farm, and yet be beautiful, comfort-able and homelike. This is our first farmhouse and we endeavored to make it characteristic in design, plan, deco--ration and the materials used for building. As a rule, we do not advocate the use of clapboards for sheathing the walls of a frame house, for the reason that the small, thin, smoothly planed and painted boards generally used for this purpose give a flimsy, unsubstantial effect to the structure and a characterless surface to the walls. However, clapboards are often preferred, especially in building a farmhouse, and it is quite possible to use them so that these objections may be removed. In this building the clap-boards are unusually broad and thick, giving to the walls a sturdy appear-

FIRST FLOOR PLAN.
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ance of permanence. They may be of pine, cedar, or cypress, and may be stained or painted according to individual taste and the character of the environment. If the house is to be rather dark and quiet in color, the boards might be given a thin stain of moss green or brown ; or a delightful color effect may be obtained by going over the boards with a wash of much diluted sulphuric acid. With either one of these colors a good effect would be obtained by painting the timbers of the framework a light cream so that the structural features are strongly accented.
We regard this house as having in a marked degree the comfort-able and inviting appearance which seems so essentially to belong to a home,—particularly to a farm home. It is wide and low. with rather a shallow pitch to the broad roof, the line of which is unbroken by the large dormers set at different