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 ,66 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. 105 106 the closet, w, as a substitute for d, in it were desirable to add four rooms instead of two, a passage and staircase might be formed between the two rooms, and two bed-chambers obtained in the floor above. This might be easily eflTected by turning round the partition wall of w, to a line with the door of that closet, and by removing the centre division wall between u and v, to a line with the door of the right hand bed-room, v ; a space of seven feSt wide would then be left in the middle for the staircase, fig. 106, x. Sup- posing the party who had made these alterations to have in- creased in prosperity, and to be desirous of one handsome dining-room in which to re- ceive his friends, it might readHy be attained by extend- ing the building from the ex- tremity of the staircase passage, as in fig. 107, in which a hand- some room, y, is obtained ; and over this it would be easy to form a corresponding drawing- room, or two additional bed- rooms. As it would be no longer desirable to pass through the kitchen to such apartments, a porch, s, might be added, so as to enter the dining-room and the staircase direct from the terrace or platform. The elevation, in the case of such alterations, may very properly be in a somewhat different style of building from the ori- Design XVI., here, in fig. 105, turned into a passage. If 107