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98 COUNTRY IIOUSES. shown only a flue for a stove, and not a chimney for an open fire -place or grate, as in the living -room. All of that part of this cottage required for daily use, viz. the living -room, kitchen, bed -room, pantry, and room for stores or fuel, are so connected together that they can, if necessary, be warmed by one fire, and not a step need be lost in conducting the business of the household. If B is used as a place for fuel, it should have an outer door for receiving the same, and there should also be an outside cellar door (with steps) in the rear of the house, to allow vegetables, &c., to be taken in without passing through the entry. This cellar door may be placed under the window in the bed -room, so as to be convenient of access to the back door of the kitchen. The flue in the kitchen is drawn into the dining -room chimney -breast. CL. cL. 1t X16 to xu CL. 32 X 1Q lox 12 CL. [Fig. 24. Chamber Floor.] The chamber floor of this cottage (Fig. 24) contains four good bed -rooms, all provided with excellent closets. The two largest bed -rooms should ]lave openings left in the flues for stove -pipes, and the bed -room 10 by 12 may also be warmed DESIGNS FOR COTTAGES. 00 by a stove, by conveying the pipe (high enough to walk under) across the small entry into one of the stove flues from the living -room chimney stack. CONSTRUCTION. For the construction of this cottage, we refer the reader to Design I. Vertical boarding with plain battens and the boards left rough, and colored with the cottage wash (given in It succeeding page), the whole filled in with brick on edge, would be a very satisfactory mode of building for it. In many parts of the country, it may, however, not be necessary t6 fill in the frame, and then, matched and Planed plank may be used, and the exterior painted two coats and sanded, for about the same cost. Indeed the difference in cost between rough boards (unmatched), and matched and planed boards, when the latter can be bought machine -planed, would be only about $6 for the whole of this cottage. For the form and construction of the windows of this cottage, we refer to Fig. 8. Tho windows shown by our engraver in Fig. 22, are not so well proportioned as those built after Fig. 8 would appear when executed. Estimate. Supposing a cellar to be made under the whole of this cottage, the construction such as we have pointed out, and the exterior to be painted tivith our cottage paint, the cost here would be $600—a very moderate sum for the great amount of accommodation afforded. .An estimate made by a builder at Rochester, N. Y., places the ` cost, 'exclusive of outside painting, at $575 * Perhaps the cost of materials and labor in the interior of the State of New York, may be taken as about a fair average for the country at large. The following is the general estimate of labor and materials of this working -man's oottage, made at our request, by a carpenter in Rochester: