The Architecture of Country Houses: Including Designs for Cottages, Farm Houses, and Villas, with Remarks on Interiors, Furniture, and the Best Modes of Warming and VentilatingD. Appleton & Company, 1850 - 484 pages |
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accommodation agreeable apartments architect architraves bay-window beauty bed-room black walnut boards brackets brick building built ceiling cellar champfered character cheap chimney chimney-breast closet colour comfort construction convenient cornice cost cottage cottage furniture country-house covered decoration Domestic Architecture door drawing-room durable dwelling eaves effect elaborate elevation Elizabethan expression exterior farm-house fawn colour feeling feet wide filling-in finished fire-place flue furniture gables give Gothic architecture hall harmony hollow walls hydraulic lime inches interior Italian kitchen lath and plaster latter lime living-room manner material mode modern mortar mouldings ornamental painted pantry parlor picturesque placed plain plaster porch PRINCIPAL FLOOR proportion render roof rural satisfactory second floor shown in Fig shows side simple simplicity solid space stable stairs stone stucco Swiss cottage symmetry taste thick truth variety ventilation veranda villa vines warm whole wood wooden