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86 COUNTRY HOUSES. room. As it now stands, the portion nearest the bed-rooln would make a second closet for the latter apartment. A large brick oven is shown alongside the fire -place, the body of which rrrns under the stairs. 9x10 1 9x14 UPPER ENTRY 13X16 I,BX 113X16 15 [Fig. 15. Chamber Floor.] The second floor of this cottage, Fig. 15, gives a great deal of sleeping accommodation for a dwelling of this size -no less than five good bed -rooms.* Two of these bed -rooms are quite large cottage rooms, 13 by 16 feet, and the others sufficiently large for children. The neat little bed -room, A, with the hanging window over the porch, though only 8 by 15, would be a pretty apartment for the eldest daughter—where she would have an opportunity to arrange her little cottage boudoir_ to show her own taste. By an error in transposing the drawing, the position of the Stairs in the Figs. 14 and 16 do not correspond. The stairs in Fig. 15 shouldoccupy the space on the left of the upper entry, where the closet now stands, instead of being on the right of i the entry. DESIGNS FOR COTTAGES. 84 A cellar under the kitchen wing of this cottage would be sufficient in cases. In this case, a good stone foundation, 3 feet deep, should be laid under the main building. Variation in plan. As there is sufficient bed -room accom- modation in the second floor of this cottage for most families, the plan of the first floor might be improved by turning the bed- room into a parlor. In this case the two closets, a, a (Fig. 14), may be dispensed with, so that the two rooms might communicate by large doors—the closets being moved to the entry space between the bed -room and the back entry, b, which would no longer need to be lett open—this would leave an open space with doors five feet wide at a, on one side of which would be the front entry, d, and on the other, the altered closets. This would give a much more spacious and agreeable, as well as more airy and cheerful character to the principal rooms of this cottage with no additional cost. CONSTRUCTION. This is a wooden cottage, and the vertical boarding already described is the mode adopted in covering the exterior. The roof, which projects 3 feet at the eaves, is supported on plain rafter brackets. The porch, though simple, being somewhat novel, we give a sectional working drawing (to the scale of a quarter of an inch to a foot). This drawing shows the profile of this porch. Now, in order to convey the proper expression of strength and solidity, the perpendicular brackets of this porch, a, should be made of heavy plank, not less than 4 inches thick, so that it shall not have a meager and paltry appearance when ex- ecuted; b shows the floor of the bed -room running, out in the hanging window; e, the projection of the roof over this window.