The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-12
THE $3.50 HOUSE.
Ho" it Seems to the Rantering Editor of
The Sun.
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lf'rom the New York SUM
Some time ago our esteemed con-
temporary, the Carpenter and Builder.
offered prizes for the best plans of a
dwelling house NOT to cost more than
500 The first prize has been awarded
To The plan drawn by a young woman
OF Worcester, Mass, and very in
genious little house she has designed.
1t IS story and a half high. the half
story being always desirable in small
/ houses and, aside from space. being
] treasured for its romantic appearancas
a haIf story is supposed to give little
mouse something Of the benediction of
y itdI cottage and d matched roof
Even the builders and real estate
agents here pride themselves on half
stories as sure sign of "Coziness." So
d LooI steep enough for a toboggan
SLlde Is always supposed 10 be COY g"
You not only may but Will knock volI,,
mead against something every time YOU
90 upstairs, but you have perpetual
arnlca in the reelection that ITS so
delghttully coy Anybody who has
| ever lived in the country in a house
WIN d steep roof Will remember that
! his guests invariably collected bumps
ana said as they rubbed them apoIO-
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! we know not what others may think
nut as for us give us the steep roof
and the coy. But the longest person
/ IN the family should be made to sleep
IN a truckle bed as near the caves as
possible. 1t is no object to have a
steep roof unless the rules are rigor-
ously observed.
The prize $3.50 house has a steep roof.
and is therefore acceptable. There is
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a front bedroom or chamber, as it is al
ways called in small houses, a bedroom
| so big that it seems d pity, and YOU
| feel like cutting 1t in two were il not
that there are swo small bedrooms or
| rear chambers behind it. These are not
| so large as Madison Square Garden,
but they are comfortable and tight,
provided the roof does it's duty.
! We have entered the house from the
| top because it was just as easy on the
| plan, and because it was right to sd
lutte the steep roof first Going down
stairs We find hall q parlor or sitting
room and a Kitchen. There is no dining
room, the sitting room being versatile.
Or perhaps the kitchen is versatile. Or
perhaps the front chamber can be used
as drawing room and the parior IS a
dining room. You can have all sorts
| Of fun IN a small house, and all the
| joys of moving without the expense.
There is no plumbing in this little
/ house, but that would cost too much.
/ Well. our ancestors got along tolera bly
| we'll without plumbing but it is handy,
and even d $3.50 house seems q trifie
| incomplete without il. As coupensa
! ton for plumbing there is a little COW
cred porch or piazza into which the
/ front door opens. Plumbing can be dis
! pensed with, but d small house must
| have piazza Of some sort. Even the
smallest family could not be at home i'm
| a small house without a piazza. And
| as more than compensation for all the
! plumbing in the world, there is bow
! window for the parlOr. What is a par
/ lOr without a bow window? The bow
/ window may look out on nothing in
! particular, but it gives an air of, moral
grandeur to the little house. The graft
/ fed owner swears by that bow window.
I He is conscious that it is a distinction