DOI Artikel:
The designing of country cottages
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43450#0223
Country Cottages
PLANS OF COTTAGE DESIGNED BY H. COLLINGS
room, kitchen, drawing-room, dining-room bed-
room—one should take into consideration the
nature, the size, and the position of each and every
piece of furniture it is intended to place in it. The
dining-room must have its table and its sideboard,
the drawing-room its piano, the kitchen its table
and dresser. The kitchen especially is apt to re-
ceive much less attention than it deserves as a
very important feature in the domestic economy.
Culinary operations cannot be carried on satisfac-
torily in a poky, ill-lighted room.
The hall, a descendant of the old house-place or
general living-room, is a pleasant feature in such
houses as we are considering, and may well be
contrived to communicate by a large opening with
one of the other rooms, and so to give increased
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PLANS OF COTTAGE DESIGNED BY H. COLLINGS
room, kitchen, drawing-room, dining-room bed-
room—one should take into consideration the
nature, the size, and the position of each and every
piece of furniture it is intended to place in it. The
dining-room must have its table and its sideboard,
the drawing-room its piano, the kitchen its table
and dresser. The kitchen especially is apt to re-
ceive much less attention than it deserves as a
very important feature in the domestic economy.
Culinary operations cannot be carried on satisfac-
torily in a poky, ill-lighted room.
The hall, a descendant of the old house-place or
general living-room, is a pleasant feature in such
houses as we are considering, and may well be
contrived to communicate by a large opening with
one of the other rooms, and so to give increased
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