French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-09-26
TEN SUGGESTIONS FOB
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Not SO much building as usual
should be done while the war is on,
but some building is necessary, and
those who expect to build a year or
later should make plans now. Here
are ten hints for all who expect to
build now or later:
l.. 1t pays to get plans from an ar
chitect. A man who has made house-
planning his Iife's work naturally
knows more about it than you, a far
mer, can possibly know-just as you
know more about farming than he, an
architect, knows. An architect will
study your needs and then try to meet
these needs and combine them with
convenience, beauty, and economy.
Too many farmers, building without
such plans, put up mere "goods-box"
buildings that offend the eyes of all
lovers of beauty.
2. Put the house in a location thar
will match it's beauty. Beauty of loca-
ton means trees and a good view.
And a high location for a good view
means ample drainage and therefore
best conditions for health. Remem-
Der, too, to have the house face south
or at least not north. A porch facing
north is cold and cherries too much
of the year.
8. Have ample porch room. Too
many Southern houses are patterned
after Northern styles-designed for
short and long winters, and
porch room is therefore inadequate.
With our long summers, we should
give more attention to outdoor living,
building distinctively Southern houses.
And of course every house should
have a sleeping porch.
4. Arrange for some built-in furnf-
ture In this way man ythings may be
much more conveniently arranged and
with a minimum outlay of money.
Built-in window seats and bookcases
make a house look more honey;
and built-in kitchen and dining
room furniture is a joy forever 20 The
housewife. g.
5. Don't have the kitchen too large.
\ large kitchen usually means wasted
steps. Summer heat is something that
must be considered in connection with
a small kitchen, but / large number
of windows and an apron above the
range for taking off the rIccSg heat
will take care Of this problem,
6. Have a celIer. A house should
never be built without u basement
an dthis is almost absolutely he: essary
where a furnace is to be installed.
Such an addition to a building is ideal
for storing wood and also for storing
Tanned goods and heavy household
supplies.
z. Wire the new house for electric
ity and put in pipes for waterworks.
Even if you are not prepared to put
in lights and waterworks, it will cost
very little to get ready to do so later.
AS cheap as waterworks now are,
however, hardly any farmer can at
ford to go a year without such a sys-
TEN.
s. Install a furnace. Such a heat
ing plant will mean wood economy,
less time in toting wood and building
fires, less dirt in the house and conse-
quently less work for the wife.
8. Paint the house and stain the
roof. No house is complete until this
is done. Both beauty and economy de-
mand it. Also paint farm buildings or
fences Cor at least whitewash them).
10. Plan for as much beauty as pos
Sible both inside and outside the
house. Plant plenty of annual and pc
rennial flowers, and plenty of flower
ing shrubs-crape myrtle, mimosa,
etc. Then get some reproductions or
really famous pictures-Perry Pic
lures. Copley Prints, or Medici Prints
avoiding the denominations usually
offered by furniture stores and travel
ing agents. There should not be a
home inthe South without reproduc-
tions of one or more real works OF
art, or ever a summer meal without a
bowl of flowers on the table, or a win
ter meal without a fern or Towering
bulbs.-Progressive Farmer.