Good Designs for Homes

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7943, 28 October 1911, Page 13

Good Designs for Homes

SECOND FLOOR FLAN

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Life i© a comedy to him who thinks; a tragedy to him who feels. _ —Horace Walpole.

THIS pretty, homelike cottage, built low with „the gambrel roof treatment is economical to cone tract, catchy in design and makes a very convenient little home for a small family. The size is 2G feet in width and 28 feet in depth, exclusive of the large verandah across the front. There is a full basement under the whole house and the foundation is carried out around the verandah. • In the original it was designed to finish the house with narrow vertical boarding oh the outside and to shingle the roof. The inside arrangement shows a large living room across the front, with the entrance. at the right hand corner, and the stairs directly in front of the entrance. There is one main chimney with a fireplace in the living room and a flue for the kitchen and the heater in the basement. The roof stands with the broad side toward the front, dormer windows light the second story in front, and gable windows _ are placed at the sides. There are three good bedrooms and ample closet space, also a large bathroom. The first story is B ■. feet 6 inches high and the second story 8 feet. The main floor is finished in stajned wood and the second painted, the exterior walls being painted white and the roof red. EM PEROR OF JAPAN AT HOME SOME interesting- details respecting hi? Majesty the Emperor of Japan are printed in the Nichi. J/ It appears that the Emperor leads a most regular life and he is‘to be seen regularly in his study at certain hours of the day, dressed in military uniform, for his Majesty prefers this drees, stiff as it is, to any other when on- duty. The Emperor; refuses also ■to use"electric fans considering that' such' luxuries I ''are un-' necessary, and when his chamberlain recommended that blocks of ice should bo placed in hia study, he replied that ho did not wish for any such luxuries. As regards daily food also, the Emperor is extremely simple'in his tastes, and frequently products from the horticultural, gardens at Shinjiku, reared' by her Majesty herself, find their way to the royal, table. Altogether his Majesty is a model • of simplicity, a considerate husband, and a loving father. - * ■ lr