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EBOOK THE COMPLETE HOME ***


Produced by Al Haines





[Frontispiece: A $3,400 House.]



The COMPLETE HOME

EDITED BY
CLARA E. LAUGHLIN



D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK
1907


Copyright, 1906, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY


_Published November, 1906_


CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
CHOOSING A PLACE TO LIVE
By OLIVER R. WILLIAMSON
Taste and expedience--Responsibilities--Renting, buying or
building--Location--City or country--Renunciations--Schools and
churches--Transportation--The butcher, the baker, and the candlestick
maker--The home acre--Comparative cost in renting--The location
sense--Size of lot--Position--Outlook and inlook--Trees--Income and
expenditure--Style--Size--Plans for building--Necessary rooms--The sick
room--Room to entertain--The "living room"--The dining room and
kitchen--The sleeping rooms--Thinking it out

CHAPTER II
FLOORS, WALLS, AND WINDOWS
By OLIVER R. WILLIAMSON
The necessity of good floors--Material and cost of laying--Ornamental
flooring--Waxed, varnished, and oiled floors--Carpets, linoleum, and
mats--The stairway--Rugs--Oriental rugs--Kitchen and upper
floors--Matting and cardoman cloth--Uses of the decorator--Wood in
decoration--Panels and plaster--The beamed ceiling--Paint, paper, and
calcimine--Shades and curtains--Leaded panes and casements--Storm windows

CHAPTER III
LIGHTING AND HEATING
By OLIVER R.
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