Summer Homes and Camps: Containing Suggestions, Hints, and Practical Ideas, Sketches, Plans, Etc., for the Building of Summer Houses |
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Page 9 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
Page i - Sound Sense in Suburban Architecture, containing Hints, Suggestions, and bits of Practical Information for the Building of inexpensive Country Houses. By FRANK T. LENT, Architect. With illustrations by the Author. Second edition, revised, 8vo, cloth. (New York.) $s. Architecture. See also Building and Cottages. Asphalt. Twenty years' practical experience of Natural Asphalt and Mineral Bitumen.
Page 15 - ... water. This removes the lime stains, and leaves all neat. The subsequent operations in the church, such as painting, glazing, and decoration, can best be studied in connection with other constructions in which they play a more important part. BUILDING SUPERINTENDENCE CHAPTER II WOODEN...
Page 12 - No chapter in the history of national manners would illustrate so well, if duly executed, the progress of social life, as that dedicated to domestic architecture. The fashions of dress and of amusements are generally capricious and irreducible to rule ; but every change in the dwellings of mankind, from the rudest wooden cabin to the stately mansion...
Page ii - This beautiful little volume is from the pen of an architect who is well known as an authority on this particular subject, and whose original plans, drawings, and illustrations give added value to the text. Mr. Lent's suggestions, so admirably presented, are most timely ; for this is the age of suburban life, and the problem of cottage building and furnishing is one of paramount importance.
Page 7 - Sensible suburban residences, containing suggestions, hints and practical ideas, sketches, plans, etc., for the building of country homes.
Page i - Information for the economical building of inexpensive Country Houses. Drawings from Actual Houses. Worth many times the cost to any one intending to build.
Page 18 - ... it shall be a new object added by the hand of man to perfect and beautify its surroundings ; and the whole when viewed shall produce an agreeable effect, like harmony in music and rhythm in poetry. Hence the difficulties attending the choice of a building plan. As every man needs to be measured to get a perfectly fitting garment, so every building site needs to be considered to get a perfectly...
Page 18 - ... considerations must guide you in locating your camp. Having selected your site, the next thing is to study it. Mark well its commanding and beautiful views, its back-ground, the fore-ground. Study it as you would a painting, for out of your site and its environment must grow your building plan. Indeed, the structure should be the outgrowth of, and harmonize with the site...
Page 37 - The fewer colors used in a room, the more pleasing and restful the result will be. "Each room should speak with but one voice.