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130 COUNTRY IIOUSE4. S DESIGNS FOR COTTAGES. 131 <br />and as they all communicate, and as the chimneys are all in a is abundant, and close economy is used in building, it may be <br />the middle of the house, not an unnecessary step need be taken,% erected at little more than $500. <br />This plan may be reduced in size one-fourth, and still give a <br />not a particle of heat will be lost. The back -porch would be ! <br />very necessary in a northern climate, but may be dispensed snug cottage for a small family; it may then be built for $150 <br />with in warmer portions of the Union.. less -than the estimate above named. <br />Fig. 54 is the plan of the second story, which contains three <br />good bed -rooms. This story is shown nine feet high, so that <br />20 FEET <br />33 <br />[Fig. 54. Chamber Floor.] <br />the upper rooms have an abundance of air; a height. rendered <br />more necessary in a cottage the roof of which has but little <br />pitch, than in any dwelling the roof of which is steep. <br />The hues of the two stacks are all drawn together in one <br />chimney in the garret of this building. j <br />CoNSTRucTION. This design may be, built of brick, stone, or i <br />wood. In the elevation (rig. 52) it is supposed to be built of <br />wood, and vertically boarded. Constructed in this way, and <br />filled-in with brick, it would make a warm and very comfortable <br />house, and the estimated cost of erecting it here, is $760— <br />supposing it to have a cellar under the whole, and to be <br />filled-in with brick. In portions of the country where lumber . <br />