Fig. 175.—PLAN OF ATTICS.
INDEX.
- A.
- Accommodations for Beginners in Housekeeping, [9]
- Air-chambers in Outer Walls, [67]
- Alcove to Window, [89]
- Arch at Head of Stairs, Good Effect, [224]
- Arched Ceilings, [217]
- Arches with Corbels, [213]
- Architect Fulfilling His Mission, [104]
- Area-walls, [189]
- A Regular versus Balloon-frame, [73]
- Ash-pit, [166]
- B.
- Balconies with Roofs, [130]
- Balcony-railing on Roofs, [149]
- Balloon-frames and Makeshifts, [74]
- Bay-window, Adding Room, [78]
- Bay-window, Cold Prevented, [191]
- Bay-window Frame, [194]
- Bay-window, Square Form, [142]
- Bells, [225]
- Better Half Consulted, the, [67]
- Blank Side of House in Villages, [58]
- Blinds Recommended, [29]
- Boldness in Exterior, [188]
- Brick, Beam-filling, [212]
- Brick Caps, [201]
- Brick-heading Courses, [189]
- Brick-inclosing, for Frame Buildings, [178]
- Brick Walls for Painting, [200]
- Bridging Beams, [102]
- Bronzed Hardware, [219]
- Building a Part First, [10]
- Building in Blocks, Advantages, [227]
- Building on a Declivity, [82]
- Building Upwards, [76]
- Butler’s Pantry, Dresser-finished, [217]
- C.
- Carpenter’s Labor in Estimating, [185]
- Cellars Never too Large, [124]
- Chimneys, Separate, Joined at Top, [157]
- Circular Heads for Windows, [48]
- Closets, [113]
- Coal-lift, [166]
- Common Fault, too Near the Street, [50]
- Communication Cut Off, [144]
- Compact Outlines, [197]
- Concrete for Cellar Bottom, [218]
- Construction of Rear Lobby, [71]
- Contents, [4]
- Contiguous Houses, [233]
- Conventional Requirements in Dwellings, [63]
- Corner Store, [233]
- Corridor for General Use, [156]
- Cost in Detail of Windows and Doors, [119]
- Cupola, [194]
- D.
- Deafening Division Walls, [231]
- Decay Caused by Moisture, [122]
- Depressing Effect of Horizontal Lines, [128]
- Designing, Difficulties in, [63]
- Developed Homestead, [40]
- Disconnected Verandas, [105]
- Dispensing with Carpets, [219]
- Distance from Street to Build, [142]
- Dormer-windows, Hooded, [129]
- Dormer-windows, Triangular, [129]
- Dormer-windows with Pediments and Columns, [221]
- Double Doors, [222]
- Double Front House, [115]
- Drudgery of Housework, [113]
- Durable Wash for Rough Work, [21]
- Dwelling may express Progressive Character, [10]
- E.
- Earth-finish Against Foundations, [92]
- Economical Form of House, [98]
- Effect of Angles in Exterior, [17]
- Entire Story Under Supervision of Mistress, [160]
- Errors in Bracing, Reliable Angles, [79]
- Exterior Plastering, [25]
- F.
- Facing Two Approaches, [209]
- Family Entrance with Private Stairs, [210]
- Fancied Necessity for Cornice Supports, [77]
- Farmers May Reduce Cost of Building, [158]
- Faults of Wood and Paper Linings, [16]
- Finishing the Rear, [148]
- Fireplace-heaters, [27]
- Five Houses on Four Lots, [64]
- Formula for Making Stearate of Lime, [42]
- Foundations in Sandy Ground, [69]
- Fountain, [204]
- Frame and Brick Sections, [201]
- Frame Cross-walls and Foundation, [231]
- Framing-in of Braces, [79]
- French-roof Style, [83]
- Frontage Eastward, [122]
- Frontage Southward, [154]
- Frontage Westward, [141]
- Front and Vestibule Doors, [222]
- Front Hall Dispensed with, [129]
- Furnace, [221]
- Furring-off Walls for Plastering, [114]
- G.
- Gas in Isolated Dwellings, [225]
- Gas-pipes, [202]
- Good Taste in Building, [135]
- Grading, [132]
- Graining, [226]
- Grates and Registers, [216]
- Ground-plans Affecting Outside Dress, [225]
- Gutters, Old and New Methods, [31]
- H.
- Half Stone Walls, [147]
- Hall, Contents not Exposed to St., [84]
- Halls, Windy and Cheerless, [192]
- Hard-wood Oiled, [219]
- Head-room Over Stairs Utilized, [66]
- Heater, Portable, [185]
- Heaters, Fireplace, How to Set, [194]
- High Foundations, [99]
- Hooded Compared with Mansard Style, [50]
- Houses Cheap as Lumber and Nails Can Make Them, [12]
- House for Dwelling, with Office, [134]
- Houses Set too Low, No Cure, [142]
- House-work Without Intrusion, [223]
- I.
- Imitations, Objections to, [74]
- Importance of Good Roof, [13]
- Imposing Outlines, [233]
- Indestructible Covering, [175]
- J.
- Jarring Prevented, [42]
- Job, Who Gets, [104]
- Joined, Separate Chimneys Over Arch, [157]
- Justice, in Painting, Last Opportunity, [74]
- K.
- Keys to Circular Heads, [192]
- Kitchen, Isolated, [130]
- Kitchen, Pleasant, [94]
- Knot, Shellacked, [67]
- L.
- Lamp-shelf, and Location of, [125]
- Lighting Lobby, [230]
- Lining-off Exterior Plastering, [25]
- Little Required to Build, [26]
- Location, Questions Involved, [141]
- Locker or Private Cellar, [160]
- Looking Like a Farm-house, [159]
- Low-down Grates, [165]
- Low-priced Plans, [22]
- M.
- Mansard Roof, Significance, [206]
- Marble Mantels, [180]
- Marble Shelves, [194]
- Modern Buildings on Old Foundations, [205]
- Mortar for Plastering, [145]
- Mortar for Stone-work, [114]
- N.
- New Modification of Mansard Roof, [128]
- Nine Doors in Small Hall, [172]
- Novelty Siding, [30]
- O.
- Observatory, [233]
- Omissions, Reducing Cost, [170]
- One’s Dwelling an Indication of His Character, [10]
- Outside Plastering, [42]
- Overloaded Cornices, [77]
- P.
- Painting; Object, When and How, [74]
- Parquet-flooring, [218]
- Parsonage, [180]
- Partitions in Cellar, [218]
- Paving Shed-floors, [126]
- Piazza, Change to Conservatory, [126]
- Piece-lumber Used Without Waste, [59]
- Plan Resembling a Double House, [101]
- Plant-windows, [112]
- Plastering, a Non-conductor of Sound, [16]
- Plastering Cellar Ceilings, [189]
- Plastering, Different Modes, [53]
- Plastering, Estimate in Detail, [139]
- Plumbing, Economical, [177]
- Plumbing, Estimate in Detail, [195]
- Plumbing, Specifications for, [237]
- Pointed Style for Rural Surroundings, [92]
- Porch Instead of Lobby, [18]
- Preface, [3]
- Providing Against Changing Vicissitudes, [10]
- Providing for Future Enlargements, [34]
- Q.
- Qualified to Estimate, Who Should Be, [104]
- Quarried Stone, Used as Found, [149]
- Quarter-circle Stairs, [48]
- Quiet Corner, [160]
- R.
- Radiator Utilizing Heat from Kitchen Fire, [19]
- Rafters Extending Downward, [133]
- Rake of Roof, [60]
- Rats and Mice Shut Out, [190]
- Reversing Plans, [23]
- Ribbed Glass, [213]
- Rolled Sheathing, [237]
- Roofing Materials foreign from Each Other, [207]
- Roof Ventilation, [85]
- Room for an Invalid Mother, [143]
- Rough Boards for Siding, [20]
- Rule for Projections, [139]
- S.
- Satisfaction of Hanging Sash, and Cost, [28]
- Saving in Foundation, New Method, [35]
- Saving Time and Trouble, [27]
- School and Play-room, [224]
- Seeming Growth of the Earth, [143]
- Semi-dressed Stone, [78]
- Setting a Girder, [41]
- Shaky and Doubtful Foundations, [37]
- Sheathing and Felting, [192]
- Shingling, How Done, [30]
- Side Alley-way, [54]
- Side Openings in Chimney-tops, Solid Caps, [53]
- Siding on Sheathing-Boards, [218]
- Siding Upright with Battens, [96]
- Siding with Bevelled Clap-boards, [85]
- Sills Bedded in Mortar, [190]
- Simplicity of Cottage Life, [23]
- Size and Shape of Houses, [120]
- Sky-light, Scuttle, and Ventilator, combined, [60]
- Slate, best material for Roofing, [138]
- Slate, clipping corners of, [114]
- Sliding Doors, [198]
- Small Beginnings, [10]
- Southern House Requirements, [88]
- Space for Furniture and Wall Ornaments, [51]
- Space for Piano, [230]
- Speaking-tubes Saving Steps, [68]
- Spreading, in place of Stilted, Houses, [152]
- Squeaky Stairs, Effect, [103]
- Stairs Continuous to Attic, [224]
- Stair-Landing, near Center of House, [183]
- Stairs, Platform, [165]
- Stairs, Quarter Circle at Top, [48]
- Stairs, Quarter Circle, Midway their Hight, [182]
- Stairs to Tower, [224]
- Stearate of Lime, [25]
- Stone, Convenient Hight to Build, [150]
- Stone for Building, Random Dressed, [149]
- Stone Walls with Brick Angles, [162]
- Storm Doors, [41]
- Stucco Cornices and Centers, [219]
- Style determined by Roof, [49]
- Suggestions as to Balloon Framing, [73]
- Superintend’g Construction, Points, [145]
- Sweetening Cellars, [190]
- T.
- Tanks secured from Frost, [95]
- Taste in Painting, [81]
- Temporary Cellar, [11]
- Tendency to Self-Destruction in Buildings, [191]
- Time allowed for Building, [217]
- Tinning, Raised Groove and Lock-Joint, [201]
- Tin, Single and Double Cross, [218]
- Tower and Attic, [108]
- Tower, Five Stories High, [221]
- Truss Heads for Cornices, [221]
- U.
- Underpinning, [108]
- Unity in Design, [128]
- Unobstructed Hall, Stair Space, [210]
- Unsightly Out-buildings Obviated, [233]
- Unwholesome Vapors, [122]
- V.
- Valleys and Gutters, [169]
- Ventilating Cellars, [125]
- Ventilation, [109]
- Ventilation Sewage, [151]
- Vertical Side Walls in Mansard Roof, [200]
- Vestibules, [198]
- Views and Principal Rooms—Rear, [171]
- Vines and Creepers for Decoration, [159]
- W.
- Walks in Conservatories, [208]
- Walls and Chimneys interlaced, [139]
- Weight of Slate and Tin, [83]
- Well, How Constructed, [173]
- What Color to Paint, [75]
- Why Contractors Differ in Estimating, [104]
- Y.
- Yards, Front and Rear, Fenced, [232]
- Yards of Carpet, [207]
- Year, Plumbing Warranted for a, [239]
- Z.
- Zinc Ridge Plates, and Flashings, [138]
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