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��of its cosy appearance when the exterior is of plaster or brick.

The interior of the house is finished complete with clear quarter-sawed white oak, including the kitchen wainscot, cup- boards, etc. It may be well to state here that there is often considerable confusion in the owner's mind as to

��Fig. 8. Panel de- sign of dining room

��Fig. 6.

��Simple columns between music and living rooms

��what is really the best grade of oak, since the grades are decidedly mislead- ing. "Clear" oak is the best grade and "Number One" is second. "Select" is the third grade and perhaps the most commonly used, since it makes a very fair trim when finished. This third grade allows for small tight knots and pin worm holes, but is otherwise sound although the allowed percentage of lengths under two feet is very large, in the flooring grade.

Separating the music room from the living room is a very simple colonnade consisting of only two large columns, as shown in Fig. 6, while the living room and dining room are divided by a mas- sive buttress having china cabinets on the dining room side and panels on the living room side, as shown in Fig. 7. The dining room itself is finished with a heavy beam-ceiling and a 5-foot 6-inch batten panel wainscot, the panels of which are made up of three plies of white oak veneer to prevent shrinking or warping. The panel design is shown in Fig. 8.

The doors throughout the house were all made specially for the job and are

��single-panel doors having a five-ply oak veneer panel.

In the rear hall, as marked on the plan, the linen closet was built with a clothes-chute underneath. The opera- tion of this chute was decided on by the owner and it is certainly a good idea. The baseboard lifts up, the soiled clothes are dropped on the floor and pushed through the opening into the cellar box, from which they are taken directly to the laundry trays in the cellar.

The bathroom is finished in white tile and white enamel, with white enameled fixtures. The floor is laid of white hexagonal tile one inch in diameter, while the walls are wainscoted 5 ft. from the floor with 3 by 6-inch oblong glazed tile with tile cove and cap. The lavatory is an oval pedestal design and the closet is a low front-wash-out type. The tub is of standard enameled iron.

The average owner does not under- stand the grading of enameled ironware and therefore calls loudly for a "five-year guarantee" article. This is really an extravagance as a "two-year" guarantee is absolutely as good for the following reason; enameled ironware in general, and bathroom fixtures in particular, are known as "five-year," "two-year" and "non-guarantee" fixtures. This means that the best grade is guaranteed against any defect for the term of five years, the second grade for a term of two years, and the third grade for no time at all. The difference between the first and second grades, however, is very little, except in price.

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���Fig. 7. Buttresses between dining room and living room

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