The Small Home: Financing : Planning : Building, Volume 5Architects' Small House Service Bureau of the United States, 1926 - Architecture |
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Page 36 - Is only jest t' make that place uz strong uz the rest." So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke— That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the...
Page 3 - To us, our house was not unsentient matter — it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction. We never came home from an absence that its face did not light up and speak out its eloquent welcome — and we could not enter it unmoved.
Page 36 - Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
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Page 6 - ... legs, and similar appliances where hot fires are used, shall rest upon fireproof foundations as above described. However, the Superintendent's written permission may allow them to be placed upon wooden floors if the floors are protected by sheet metal or a % inch layer of asbestos building lumber, covered with not less than 4 inches of masonry set in cement mortar. Such masonry shall consist of one course of 4 inch hollow terra cotta, or of two courses of brick or terra cotta, at least one of...
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Page 7 - If business slackens, is he likely to lose his position or have his earnings reduced? 3. Will anyone else in the family be able to earn an income? 4 What does the family now pay for rent each year? 5. How much of the income is being saved? 6. How much could the family afford to pay out each year in paying for a house, and for the expenses that go with it?