Convenient Houses, with Fifty Plans for the Housekeeper: Architect and Housewife; a Journey Through the House; Fifty Convenient House Plans; Practical House Building for the Owner; Business Points in Building; how to Pay for a Home |
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1st Floor 2nd Floor amount apparatus appurtenances architect architecture arrangement attic Balance due Bath bath-room bath-tub bedroom bids borrow brick building association built cathedral glass cellar cement cents Chamber CHAPTER china-closet china-room cistern closet common connection convenient cost of loan desired Dining dining-room drain due at end feet finish fixtures floor plan flue frame front furnace grate hard wood heating housekeeper inch thick inches inches in thickness inside Interest and premium iron joist kind kitchen sink laundry lead mantel means mineral wool mortar one-half opening owner painted pantry parlor passage payment placed plastering plumbing porcelain Porch Portor proper pump purlins rabbet rear hall reception-hall roof satisfactory schedule second floor secured sewer shingles side sitting-room sliding doors soil pipe space stain stairs supply tank tongued and grooved transom trap usually vestibule wall wash-stand water-closet window wood-work Wxis