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'TWO INEXPENSIVE BUT CHARMING COTTAGES FOR WOMEN WHO WANT THEIR OWN HOMES
IT has always seemed to us that if there is one kind of dwelling that is more generally needed than another, it is the small and inexpensive, yet comfortable and homelike, cottage that can be built almost for the year's rent of
and board in a boarding house, and that would serve as a home for two or three people. Especially is this sort of a house needed by women of limited means; women who either work .at home or possibly in an office or shop and who need all the home comfort they can get. instead of dragging out an existence in a boarding house or day in ,a flat.
These cottages each would serve to accommodate a group of three or four and the number might even be stretched to six in case of very congenial people who did not mindsharing their rooms. The houses as represented here are built of field stone, but the designs would serve equally well for concrete, —a form of construction that would greatly lessen the cost.—or for frame houses covered with shingles. clapboards, or even with plain
boards and bat-tens. In fact. after the initial cost of the lot in some suburb not too far away from the place of employment. it should be a very easy mat-ter for two or three women who felt that they would like to make a home for themselves to combine their resources a n d build one of these little houses. Even
the cost of the lot might be very greatly lessened if it were possible to build in a village near the city or right out in the country. It is the woman who is stranded in some forlorn hall bedroom, or who is forced to feel that she is a superfluous member of some-one else's family, who would most welcome the dignity and content that would be found
of
or even
a flat,
room
facing the bugbear of rent
The
Published in
Craftsman, March, 1904.
STONE COTTAGE WITH RECESSED PORCII AND HI'NGALOAA ROOF.