The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-08-20
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without Thorough PrepaFaiion-HUw Mis-
takea are Made.

without Ihof0osa EfepAEtAion-hVW anlA
takes are Made.
Good RaueEapfng.
II We were all prohibited from giving
aamonitons to the world in general and
our friends in particular, unless they were
original as 1ell as wise, the quantity o.
preaching would te considerably dimin'
ished, and printers ink would be drug
in the market. Bat neither Of these potent
influences can be spared as yet, 80 il hap,
pens that most Of us must be satisfied to
utter simple wisdom, and forego all at.
tempts at originality. Along time before
the expediency OF sitting down to count
the cost when about 30 build tower had
been explained, it had been repeatedly
observed that y wise inan, intending 70
erect for himself q dwelling house, would
20 to gu architect Of good and regu.
lar standing, as soon "a he had
chosen his lot, aud giving him the
fullest information concerning his
wishes and intentions in the matter, would
instruct him to prepare plans at least six
months before the building should begin.
That adyice has been repeated in various
forms from the time that Solomon built
him a house 10 the present, yet not one In
ten follows 1t. This may be because, to
nearly every man, the building Of what he
inten s to be his permanent homo is such
a serious undertaking that he cannot tAir.
ly make up his mind to enter upon 1t until
he Is all ready to start the visible struct-
urs, but more commonly 1t Is because SO
few have any clear idea OF the time that
ought to be spent, in thought and labor,
upon the preparation OF theplans, even be-
fore the excayating for the cellar can
be begun. Of course, this does not APP
ply to The houses OF common pattern
chat can be turned out in the dark By the
hundreds from any enterphaing carpen-
ter's shop, but why a clear.heaued bust
ness man, who has the ability to make q
fortune and the good sense to devote 9
titheo Il to. building 9 comfortable home
home for hhself, should make his pre-
partitions for building in such q thrittless,
inconsilerate fashion, is one OF the things
past finding out, 10 is by no means IN.
common for an architect to be asked and
expected 10 furnish in three days all the
essential data for the expenditure OF tens,
and perhaps hundreds Of thousands
Of dollars upon special build.
ing, concerning which he has not
had the slightest previous infor-
nation, and to which he could not have
given moments thought. If 1t were
simply question Of designing a "frst,
class hoIsein the latest, most approved,
most artistic, most sanitary, and most
fashionable style, on abstract principles
without reference 10 the penonal tdiosyn,
crasies Of any particular occupant, PROBES.
sional skill might rise to the occasion
But that would be, in comparison, o very
simple affair. In order to be success
each house must ct the owner,-hi:
tastes, his means and his actual needs
and, what is often OF much more import
ance and difficulty, the tastes and the
needs, real and imaginary, OF his vile anc
the other influential members OF the
family.
Its speaking quite within the bounds
to say that nine times out OF ten, when 9
man has q large house to build for him
self, It would be better economy Tor hin
TO pay the full price for two full sets o.
plans than to begin building before hi
plans are completed in all essential points
that is to say, he would better, on The
score OF the economy, pay for one set o.
plans, call them premature, an expert
ment, and throw them away outright
rather than suffer the loss from changes
miscal culations aud inconyeniences, re
sulfng from building without thorough
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