Help for the Man Who Wants to Build
An article compares music rests to spaces in design, stressing plain spaces, voids, and rests as essential in architecture. It argues that disciplined planners, like trained architects, blend order and beauty, using repeated themes to unite composition. It emphasizes professional expertise over amateur effort in home design.
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A six room true Dutch Colonial plan emphasizes efficient use of space with a side stair, fireplace, built in shelves, a bay window, and a wide dining room opening to the living area. Ground floor includes front to kitchen passage and ample closets. second floor offers six rooms and large closets.
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Building Know-How and Financing Home Projects
A reader Q and A covers structural terms like sill girder stud and bearing post with explanations of their roles. It explains second mortgages, fair rates, and safety, plus guidance on costing materials, lumber millwork, frost line footings, and durability of wooden porch piers and ground-contact wood.
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