The following plans are designed chiefly for persons in moderate circumstances, and have especial reference to young housekeepers.
Every year, as the prosperity of this Nation increases, good domestics will decrease, and young mothers are hereafter to be called to superintend and perform all branches of domestic business, to nurse children, direct ignorant domestics, attend the sick, entertain company, and fulfil all other family duties; and this, too, in a majority of cases, with delicate constitutions, or impaired health. Every man, therefore, in forming plans for a future residence, and every woman who has any influence in deciding such matters, ought to make these probabilities the chief basis of their calculations.[S]
Fig. 18.
Ground-plan.
Scale of Feet.
- a, Porch.
- b, Parlor, 15 by 16 feet.
- c, Dining-room, 15 by 16 feet.
- d, d, Small Bedrooms.
- e, Stairs.
- f, f, f, Closets.
- g, Pantry.
- h, Store-closet.
- i, i, i, Fireplaces.
- j, Kitchen.
- k, Bedpress.
- z, Cellar door.
The plan, exhibited in Figures [17], and [18], is that of a cottage, whose chief exterior beauty is its fine proportions. It should be painted white.