New-York tribune., 1922-03-26
English Cottage of Brick Well
Suited to american Life
Has Lines That Indicate Comfort and Good Proper
toned Rooms: Builders Say That This Little
House Can BE Built FOR $4,000

his type Of pleas ~ little brick
house is one especially popular in
America. Based on English cottage
ines, there is honey appeal about
this house. with It's low ewes toward the
street
Second in the series Of new econom-
ical small house designs TO be pub
llshed each Sunday in The Tribune.
this des "a we'll adapted to brick CON
>truction and realty economical to
build because Of it's rectangular plan
can be built within fifty radius
Of New York CRY FOR between $1,000
and $4,000, according to the Home
Owners Service Institute.
The house, o. five rooms. has a cubic
contents Of 1928 cubic toet, The mar
row end of t9c house should face the
street, according 70 the architects de
sign.
The first door plrn shows comfort
ably sized living room. with open FIRE
place. and ample dining room. There
rs kitchen with rear entry and
space for a refrigerator. The outside
entrance to the kitchen is from a door
at the grade line, which gives access
AS we'll to the cellar. The living porch
= reached from the dining room by
French windows and ovcrlooks the rear
Of the lot, which is intended to bc de
veloped as 4 lawn and garden.
On the second floor there are two
good sized bedrooms and ample closet
space. including a linen closet adjoin-
ing the bathroom. To have pleasant,
sunny rooms the street side Of the
house should preferably face north.
The architect, Auslje NJ. Ballautyne.
of New York City. has indicated be
l. 1 ! u I 81 :
bedroom 4 place for Tong flower box.
Additional savings in construction
cost Of this house may be effected by
the use Of the hollow type Of brick
wall and by eliminating the fireplace
in the front bedroom up stairs.
The design is the winner Of the
fourth prize in the brick house class
in the recent National Architects
Small House Competition
Structural Details
MASONRY-Concrete footings and
foundation walls. Exterior walls Of
rough texture face brick backed with
common brick. Chimneys Of rough
texture face brick with fire clay fue
Innings. Firepiaces OF brick with tile
hearths Cellar floor, walks and steps
of concrete. Bathroom floor white and
gray tile, with SIX inch cove base.
Clay tile partition behind Kitchen
range. Three foot dry wells placed
ton feet from house to take rain water
rom leaders.
CARPENTRY Structural timber No.
. spruce. Plates, headers. trimmers,
studs, josts. corner posts. etc. to be
doubled and spiked or spread apart
and blocked between to allow for
plumbing or heating pipes as requred).
Al joists over ten feet to be bridged
and partitions to have one row of her
ringbone bridging. All framing kept
TWO inches away from chimncys Cali
timber sizes given in detail speci6ca-
tions.
SHEATHING on dormers and roofs
OF y. c. pine square edged, SIS. Wall
sheathinG laid diagonally.
ROUGH FLOORING on first hoor
except kitchen, 7sX2l2 inch tongue and
groove No. 9 n. c. pine, SIS, laid dag
onally and spiked to each joist. One
thickness Of heavy building paper laid
over rough floors
EXTERIOR TRIM No. / clear sound
\. c. pine sash to be rabbeted for
sheet glass throughout).
INTERIOR FINISH throughout Iiv-
ing room, dining room and hail of
clear and well seasoned birch with We
ueered doors. Kitchen and service
ond floor to be finished throughout in
No. clear y. c. pine with birch doors.
Finished floors in living room, dining
room and nall OF white oak laid in long
lengths and blind mailing. Kitchen en-
try and second story floors Of edge
grain No . n. c. pine
PAINTING AND WOOD FINISHING
Interior finish, prmed and given
three coats Of white lead and oil FIN
shed color selected by owner. Oak
floors stained Pine floors vanished.
bathroom finished in white enamel. In
terror walls of lath and plaster
SHEET MEAL WORK-All fash
lnGs OF tin. Cutters OF galvanized
iron. Leaders Of corrugated galvanized
IRON extending 20 tiFe-iuch iron drains.
ROOFING-Ve Vermont No. / Weather.
ing Green safe in random widths l6
inches long with 3-inch lap and 6l2
inches TO the weather and on skaters
asphalt imprcGnatcd rooung felt G6
pounds to one square,. Contractor to
guarantee an sl&,c surfaces IN water
.icht condition for two years.
-.~ICTRIC EQUIPMENT Metal out
let boxes. plug rcceptacles. wall brack
cts, wall switches. throe-way switch
FOR hall light. Iron conduit to tcle-
phone locations. "Details Of electric
equipment viii be found u complete
speciGcationl.
PLUMBlNG-Thrce-quarter- inch gal
vanizcd iron pine for house supply
Forty-gallon galvanized iron range
boiler. Two ~ porcelain cnameled
Rat rim laundry tubs, porcelain on
amcled roll rim sink. llve-ioot por-
celain cnameled bathtub. Porcelain
cuamcled lavatory
HEATING First class warm ar
heating apparatus. LEADERS anc stacks
Of tin covered With ashes tos air-ccll
covering. Horizontal pines i'm second
foor constructed double. Partition
pipes faced with metal lath
Uncle Sam TO Offer