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TWO INEXPENSIVE BUT CHARMING COTTAGES
in a home of her own, —a home which might be shared by a relative or close friend in similar circumstances.
The chief value of these little houses lies in the fact that although they are but the simplest of cottages, they nevertheless possess a beauty and individuality which is lacking in many a residence that costs ten times as much. W ire feel that in exterior attractions they are fitted to take rank with any of the houses de-signed in The Craftsman Workshops, and that the interior arrangement is compact and comfortable to a degree. The chief difference between them, as regards the exterior, lies in the fact that in the case of the first one the porch is recessed and, in the second, is ex-tended to the dimensions of a good-sized veranda that runs the whole width of the house. In interior arrangement they are much alike, the living room in each case occupying the whole of one side of the house and
FIRST STORY FLOOR PLAN.
73opening into a dining alcove which takes about half of the other side. The kitchen occupies the remaining corner and, if this be fitted with convenient cupboards, work table and the like, there would be no necessity for a pantry. Up-stairs also the arrangement of the two cottages is somewhat similar, as in each case the space
is divided into three bedrooms and a bathroom, with plenty of closet room tucked away in-to nooks and corners.
As to the in-
terior woodwork
and furnishing,
these need not
be costly in or-
der to be attrac-
tive. Some in-
expensive native
wood, such as
pine, or cypress,
or that grade of
chestnut known
to builders as
"sound wormy," would, if finished properly,
give the most delightful effect when used for
interior trim, built-in seats, cupboards, balus-
trades for the stairways, and for wainscoting,
—providing the sum set aside for the house
admitted such a luxury as the last. The re-
maining wall spaces and the ceilings could be
left in the rough sand-finished plaster, tinted
in any color desired, and the fireplace would
naturally be of brick or field stone and of the
simplest design. Given such a foundation, the
question of furnishing would adjust itself.
SECOND STORY FLOOR PLAN.
Published in The Craftsman, March, 1904.
STONE COTTAGE WITH VERANDA. NOTE THE EFFECT OF SQUARE BUNGALOW ROOF AND OF CASEMENT WINDOWS HIGH UNDER THE EAVES.
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