Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — HOW TO HAVE A HOME [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOW TO HAVE A HOME

SUGGESTIONS FOR THOSE INTENDING TO BUILD. A Design Having a Variety of Outline h* the Exterior, Which Gives a Pieturesqna and Pleasing Appearance to the WholeCost. The rear extension of the house shown here was a previous residence containing but two rooms, and was put in the present position to answer the purpose of kitchen and pantriee I—the roof, etc., being entirely new to correspond with the new house. The rooms on the first floor have all open fireplaces, each being provided with a neat ash mantel. The library is an excellent room, with good front and side views, and the veranda is reached in an aasy manner via windows from this room, making it a pleasant retreat In hot iweather. There is a variety of outline in the exterior of this house, which cannot fall to give a picturesque and pleasing appearance to the whole. The chamber above library projects

slightly beyond the face of the octagon bay, and the peculiar manner In which the sides.are supported is odd, but gives the appearance of stability and firmness, the construction being perfectly sound. / 'Pho upper sashes are filled with . stained glass, all round the sash being very small lights of different (colored glass, and the center light has the figure of a flower in white on blue ground. This manner of treating windows must be seen to Ire appreciated; and no blinds are used except on the lower sash, and when the hllnds are dosed, it gives a mellow tone to the light of the Interior. The back hall is reached by side porch, and the bath-room is placed so that anyone coming into the house can step Into bath-room, and prepane their toilet before entering the mala house; the second story rooms are full height, and there Is a well-light-ed attic above. A laundry Is provided in the cellar; also provision Is made for the storage of fuel, etc. Co<t, $2,500. , There are no blinds on this house

and we should like to know of what use they are. To our mind, they are neither useful nor ornamental. They are forever rattling on the outside, and always In the way of curtains oa the inside, and where we have mullion windows, “they must be kept closed or they are in the way; and if we use outside blinds, thev are forever in the way of adding a bit of detail here, and a hood or a balcony there, which would add greatly to the effect of the whole. The only blinds that are fit for use are rolling Venetian blinds; they slide up and down and are out of the way, and will cover the whole or a part of the window, as required; but these are a little more expensive, you say, than ordinary inside blinds, but we can find a substitute which is equally as good —we can make a shade of heavy cloth, to roll up by pulling a cord—or, better still, slide

it with rings on a bar. These shade® should fit the window and hang flat and straight, -or nearly so. The material may be cheap and coarse, and offers an excellent opportunity for embroidery, where it would, show to good advantage. Rich'browqs are the mo§t < available colors,' which might be either coarse, jut? cloth pr burlaps. Then therqis .qn variety of materials which may be used, according to taste and depth of pocket Blinds can be better left off and replaced by something will be far more pleasing to the eye And serve the same purpose. Copyright by IjplUser, PaUiaer <ft Co,, N. Y. Miss Willing (meaningly)—“Do you know they are talking of putting a tax on old bachelors'?” Mr. Bonder (more meaningly)—“They would raise more revenue if they’d tax all the old married men who wish .they were single.”—/Tid-Bits. Laborers would rather spend their money, ’ even foolishly, thafi hfive pome bank cashier do it for them.

PERSPECTIVE VIEW.

PLAN OF FIRST FLOOR.

PLAN OF SECOND FLOOR