Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner.

  • Turner, Ernest.
Date:
1884
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    28/210 (page 6)
    CHAPTER II. REQUIREMENTS. Locality — Accommodation — A Royal Architect — List of Rooms—The Dining-room—Its size and aspect—Its de- pendencies—Buttery-hatch—Morning-room and Break- fast-room—Aspect—Outlook—“ A fine view ”—Study and Boudoir—“ Fads ”—Library—East or west aspect ?—Ven- tilation—Position—Billiard-room—Dimensions—Light- ing by day, and by night—Trente-et-quarante lamps— Rigidity of floor—The Smoking-room — Aspect — Ven- tilation— Inlet and outlet—Reform Club experiment — Blowing too hard—Bedrooms—Draughts—The electric theory — The Alcove — Nurseries and School-rooms — Isolation — Bath-room—Floor — Walls — Wine-cellar — Ventilation — T emperature — Ante-cellar— Coal-cellar — How to estimate capacity—How to increase it. The first step towards getting what you want is to know what it is you do want. So far as locality is concerned, this point will probably in most cases be more or less settled by circumstances. If not it must be settled by taste, or by such other criterion as may be adopted in its place. The general question of where to settle down, in town or country, seaside or inland; Mid- dlesex, Cornwall, Norfolk or Inverness, is one which