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A ROOMY, INVITING FARMHOUSE, DESIGNED FOR PLEASANT HOME LIFE IN THE COUNTRY
Published in The Craftsman, December, 1908.
VIEW SHOWING FRONT PORCH, OUTSIDE KITCHEN AND DORMER.
BELIEVING that no form of dwelling better repays the thought and care put upon it than does the farmhouse, we give here a design for the kind of house that is meant above all things to furnish a pleasant, convenient and comfortable environment for farm life and farm work.
The house is low, broad and comfortable looking in its proportions and exceedingly simple in design and construction. The walls are sheathed with clap-boards and rest upon a foundation of field stone that is sunk so low as to be hardly perceptible, so that the house, while perfectly sanitary and well drained, seems very close to the ground. The clapboards are eight or ten inches wide and should be at least seven-eighths of an inch thick. Although they are to be laid like all clapboards, the thickness of the boards will necessitate a small triangular strip between each board -and the joist to which it is nailed. This support prevents the boards from warping or splitting, as they might do if nailed directly to the joist with-out ,any support between.
The grouping of the windows is one of