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A ROOMY, HOMELIKE FARMHOUSE
ground much better if the foundation is accommodated to the natural irregularities and if the floor of the porch is very little elevated above the turf.
The interior arrangement, while simplicity itself, is very convenient. There is hardly anything to mark the divisions between the reception hall, living room and dining room, so that these names rather serve to indicate the uses to which the different parts of this one large room may be put than to imply that they are separate rooms. In the very center of the house is the large fireplace nook which naturally forms the center of interest and attraction, with its ample chimneypiece of the split field stone and the comfortable fireside seat beside the hearth. Were it not for the arrangement of this large open space, there might be a sense of bareness; but this is entirely obviated by the shape of the room, the prominence given to the fire-side nook, and the liberal use of wood in the form of beams, wainscots, seats and such built-in fixtures as may be necessary.
FIRESIDE NOOK, GIVING AN IDEA OF THE BROAD CHIMNEVPIECE BUILT OF SPLIT FIELD STONE AND OF THE FIRESIDE SEAT, WHICH IS MADE OF WIDE BOARDS V-JOINTED.
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