item: #1 of 10
          id: 14248
      author: Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence)
       title: Homes and How to Make Them
        date: None
       words: 41302
      flesch: 74
     summary: A common objection to brick houses is their redness; but there is no law against painting them, if their natural color is really inharmonious. Dear Sir,--Once, in conversation with you, I made some inquiries as to the feasibility of building houses, especially of brick, with reference to future enlargement.
    keywords: air; architect; beauty; brick; building; cold; cost; dear; doors; good; half; home; house; illustration; jane; john; kitchen; letter; look; man; means; mrs; need; new; people; place; right; roof; room; square; stone; story; thing; time; walls; want; way; windows; wood; work
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        item: #2 of 10
          id: 15678
      author: Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence)
       title: The House That Jill Built, after Jack's Had Proved a Failure
        date: None
       words: 51959
      flesch: 76
     summary: Never before have I felt inclined to agree with her; but the conviction has grown upon me of late that the new house is in danger of being too much like other houses. She sees that there have been changes and improvements in the art of house building, but declares that while some of her opinions and suggestions of ten years ago have been approved and accepted, it is still true that by far the greater number of those who plan and build houses are guided by transient fashion, thoughtless conservatism and a silly seeking for sensational results, rather than by truth, simplicity and common sense.
    keywords: air; architect; aunt; bessie; building; chapter; cost; course; day; dear; doors; family; feet; fire; floor; good; half; hall; home; house; illustration; jack; jill; jim; kitchen; light; melville; new; outside; place; plans; roof; room; set; sort; stairs; things; time; walls; want; water; way; window; wood; work
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        item: #3 of 10
          id: 17804
      author: Ormsbee, Renee Richmond Huntley
       title: If You're Going to Live in the Country
        date: None
       words: 56823
      flesch: 73
     summary: NEW SITES FOR OLD HOUSES 105 VIII. Knowledge of what are the weak spots in old houses and where to look for them will save much time and effort in the initial stages of house hunting.
    keywords: air; architect; building; cellar; century; chimney; city; cost; country; country house; course; day; days; family; feet; fireplace; floor; half; hand; heat; home; house; illustration; kitchen; land; life; like; little; living; man; matter; means; new; original; owner; people; pipe; place; plans; price; property; roof; room; service; set; smoke; stone; summer; system; tank; things; time; type; walls; water; way; windows; winter; work; years
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        item: #4 of 10
          id: 19998
      author: Allen, Lewis Falley
       title: Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings
        date: None
       words: 87269
      flesch: 66
     summary: He therefore determines to have a snug, _close_ house, where the cold cannot penetrate. As a _tenant_ house on a farm of three, four, or even five hundred acres, where all who live in it are laborers in the field or household, this design may be most conveniently adopted.
    keywords: accommodation; air; american; arrangement; barn; building; cattle; cellar; chamber; character; chimney; convenience; cottage; country; cts; design; door; dwelling; end; family; farm; farm house; farmer; feet; floor; garden; good; ground; half; hall; house; illustration; inches; kind; kitchen; life; line; open; passage; place; plan; posts; proper; purposes; rear; roof; room; size; stairs; stock; stone; style; subject; taste; trees; walls; water; way; window; wood; work
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        item: #5 of 10
          id: 26354
      author: Woodward, George E. (George Evertson)
       title: Woodward's Country Homes
        date: None
       words: 23364
      flesch: 68
     summary: There are so many conditions to govern results in house building, that even an approximate estimate may fall very wide of the mark. In constructing country houses there are several prime conditions to be observed, such as adaptation, accommodation, and expression.
    keywords: balloon; building; city; class; cost; cottage; country; design; feet; fig; floor; form; frame; house; illustration; manner; new; place; plan; roof; room; stone; summer; taste; time; work
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        item: #6 of 10
          id: 33955
      author: Northend, Mary Harrod
       title: Remodeled Farmhouses
        date: None
       words: 55992
      flesch: 70
     summary: In old houses which have not been used for some time, the bricks often deteriorate and become so soft that they crumble at the touch. The roof of the main building has been extended in the rear, following its straight line to the top of the first story, as was frequently done in old houses.
    keywords: building; chimney; colonial; day; design; dining; door; end; entrance; farmhouse; fireplace; floor; furniture; garden; hall; home; house; illustration; kitchen; left; lines; little; living room; new; original; owner; porch; rear; remodeling; roof; room; second; space; time; type; view; wall; white; windows; woodwork
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        item: #7 of 10
          id: 41781
      author: Châteauneuf, Alexis de
       title: The Country House (with Designs)
        date: None
       words: 26185
      flesch: 56
     summary: I am sorry you have again referred to a certain Pompeian room; believe me, too much has been said of what you know was a rough experiment, to see the effect of a particular kind of decoration for small rooms, and which, as regards its details, can only deserve attention from the skill with which Mr. Harvey executed the animals that are introduced. In its origin and development every organic style of architecture has preceded the other two arts, consequently the relationship in which it stands to them may more properly be termed maternal, it being under her fostering protection that they have afterwards grown up: nor would it be difficult to exemplify this sort of connexion between the three arts by instances taken from different styles of architecture; and one who has applied himself to studying the motives and principles governing the formation of those different styles, will easily follow me in my remarks.
    keywords: architecture; art; building; character; decoration; effect; esq; general; gothic; ground; house; illustration; kind; letter; library; light; mrs; painting; pictures; present; principles; regards; room; sculpture; style; subject; taste; time; water; works
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        item: #8 of 10
          id: 42469
      author: Gibson, Louis H. (Louis Henry)
       title: Convenient Houses, With Fifty Plans for the Housekeeper
        date: None
       words: 79797
      flesch: 77
     summary: The details, however, are more complete, and it is generally more satisfactory than other houses of the same type. A window-seat in the hall, parlor, reception, or other room, is really a great addition in more ways than one.
    keywords: architect; arrangement; association; bath; brick; building; cellar; chapter; china; closet; connection; cost; dining; doors; drain; feet; fig; floor; good; hall; house; illustration; inches; kitchen; means; money; outside; pantry; parlor; pipe; place; plan; rear; reception; room; room house; second; sink; sitting; space; stairway; time; wall; water; window; wood; work; year; | |
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        item: #9 of 10
          id: 59599
      author: Ashby, Wallace
       title: Farmhouse Plans
        date: None
       words: 12834
      flesch: 69
     summary: Porches, original house, 90 square feet; completed house, 285 square feet. [Illustration: VIEW OF COMPLETED HOUSES] Construction should be simple.
    keywords: addition; agricultural; bedroom; cellar; department; engineering; feet; floor areas; floor plan; house; illustration; kitchen; living; room; space; superstructure
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        item: #10 of 10
          id: 60658
      author: Jones, Sydney R. (Sydney Robert)
       title: Old Houses in Holland
        date: None
       words: 19907
      flesch: 63
     summary: All the features and details of some buildings had to be suitably designed for execution in this not very pliable material--gables (page 21), windows, doorways (shown above), decoration, mouldings and traceries. Some of the sizes noted are 1-1/4 inches by 6-3/4 inches to 7 inches at Workum; 1-1/2 inches by 7 inches at Breda (page 24); 1-1/2 inches by 8-1/2 inches, and 1-3/4 inches by 7 inches to 8-1/2 inches at Haarlem; and 2 inches by 9 inches at 's Hertogenbosch.
    keywords: architecture; bricks; buildings; century; country; dordrecht; dutch; examples; features; gables; good; gothic; haarlem; heads; holland; houses; inches; iron; middelburg; north; page; stone; walls; windows; work
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