International studio (47.1912)

Country Cottages


DESIGN FOR COUNTRY COTTAGE

BY J. ALLAN SPEIR

space from time to time, as is shown, for instance,
in Mr. Speir’s design. Its fireplace is useful as a
means of heating the house generally, a specially
desirable object in the case of week-end cottages,
which are only lived in from time to time, and are
likely to suffer from damp and cold in the intervals
of occupation. The question of heating such
houses as these from one central furnace hardly
receives the share of attention it deserves. Still,

bearing in mind economy, it is possible to arrange
inexpensively for some simple form of apparatus
needing little attention. It may be done either by
a small boiler (fed in part by the refuse of the
kitchen, and so also serving the useful purpose of
a destructor) or by one of the hot-air systems so
common on the Continent.
In close connection with the hall comes the con-
sideration of the staircase. The position of this,


PLAN OF COTTAGE SHOWN ABOVE, WITH GARDEN

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