e work. This can be made more
effectual for the purpose if it is on simple lines.

BUILDING PLANS.--We must first have a plan; and the real carpenter must
have the ability to plan as well as to do the work. We want a five-room
house, comprising a parlor, dining room, two bedrooms, a kitchen and a
bathroom. Just a modest little home, to which we can devote our spare
hours, and which will be neat and comfortable when finished. It must be
a one-story house, and that fact at once settles the roof question. We
can make the house perfectly square in plan, or rectangular, and divide
up the space into the proper divisions.

THE PLAIN SQUARE FLOOR PLAN will first be taken up, as it is such an
easy roof to build. Of course, it is severely plain.

Fig. 221 shows our proposed plan, drawn in the rough, without any
attempts to measure the different apartments, and with the floor plan
exactly square. Supposing we run a hall (A) through the middle. On one
side of this let us plan for a dining room and a kitchen, a portion of
the kitchen space to be given over to a closet and a bathroom.

[Illustration: _Fig. 221._]

The chimney (B) must be made accessible from both rooms. On the other
side of the hallway the space is divided into a parlor and two
bedrooms.

THE RECTANGULAR PLAN.--In the rectangular floor plan (Fig. 222) a
portion of the floor space is cut out for a porch (A), so that we may
use the end or the side for the entrance. Supposing we use the end of
the house for this purpose. The entrance room (B) may be a bedroom, or a
reception and living room, and to the rear of this room is the dining
room, connected with the reception room by a hall (C). This hall also
leads to the kitchen and to the bathroom, as well as to the other
bedroom. The parlor is connected with the entrance room (B), and also
with the bedroom. All of this is optional, of course.

[Illustration: _Fig. 222._]

There are also two chimneys, one chimney (D) having two flues and the
other chimney (E) having three flues, so that every room is
accommodated.

[Illustration: _Fig. 223._]

ROOM MEASUREMENTS.--We must now determine the dimensions of each room,
and then how we shall build the roof.

In Figs. 223 and 224, we have now drawn out in detail the sizes, the
locations of the door and windows, the chimneys and the closets, as well
as the bathroom. All this work may be changed or modified to suit
conditions and the taste of the designer.

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