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 FURNITURE FOR COTTAGE DWELLINGS. 301 every cottager in tolerable circumstances. The difference will be found to consist cliiefly in the kind of labour employed in making them, and in the style of design which they exhibit. To speak in familiar language, we have given more work for the joiner than for the carpenter ; and our Designs pretend to nothing more than what could be in- vented by any joiner who could read and draw, and derive ideas from books. Mr. Dalziel, under whose direction most of them have been prepared, has shown superior taste in pre- serving the character of simplicity, and preferring what was really good in itself to what had only novel or showy appearance to recommend it. For the Designs for iron furni- ture we are chiefly indebted to Mr. Mallet, jun., of Dublin; but partly to Messrs. Cottam and Hallen, and Mr. Eckstein, of London. We shall present the following Designs in the order of sideboards, dumb waiters, bookcases, book-shelves, wardrobes, chests of drawers, tables, chairs, stools, benches, sofas, beds, cribs, window-curtains, inside blinds, looking-glasses, fenders, carpets, oilcloths, matting, umbrella stands and hat and cloak holders, mats, scrapers, clocks and musical instruments, pictures, sculptures, and oilier ornamental furnishing : the various utensils employed in cookery, brewing, baking, washing, the dairy, &c., or for the table and bed-rooms, including earthenware, China and glass of every description, with linen, the minor articles of ironmongery, cutlen.-, &c., do not come within our plan, because they cannot be considered as architectural in their Design. 621. Sideboards for a coito^e j9ar?o?/r generally include cupboards, unless there should be a comer cupboard in the room, either as a fixture, or as a movable piece of furniture. Fig. 573, p. SOO, shows a small cupboard side-board for a neatly furnished cottage par- lour, in which there is not much room. In point of style it may be considered Grecian ; because the panels do not indicate any thing of pointed architecture at their angles, and because the mouldings under the top belong to the former style. Fig. 574 is a Design in the Gothic style ; and fig. 575 shows the interior of the Design. A partition is fixed in the centre, which divides the cupboard into two parts. One side has a drawer at the top, which drawer is partitioned, and lined with baize, for holding plate. There are four tray shelves below, which draw out, the space between them being of sufficient height to hold wine glasses, tumblers, &c. In the other side is one fixed shelf, leaving height enough for bottles and decanters both above and below. The lower part may be lined with lead, to keep wine and liquors cool ; or it may contain earthenware wine coolers for that purpose, the bottom being lined with lead, and having a ledge in front about an inch high, to retain any water that may exude from the coolers. The top of this sideboard lifts up, and leaves a well for holding tablecloths, napkins, doyleys, table- mats, &c. This article may be made in deal and painted ; of any native broad-leaved vood, as oak, elm, walnut, &c., or of mahogany. Made of the last material, in London, the price would be from £7 to £, according to the style of finishing 622. Corner Cupboards are best put up as fixtures (see § 617), and Designs for them may be made after the style already given, figs. 562 to 574 ; all the difference in con- 5:5 struction between a movable and a fixed comer cupboard, being, that the former have linings or sides of boards, to which the shelves and side styles are fixed. In some old