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If You're Going to Live in the Country

If You're Going to Live in the Country

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IF YOU'RE GOING
TO LIVE IN
THE COUNTRY


A RIVERSIDE HOME RECONSTRUCTED FROM THE RUINS OF AN OLD MILL Photo by Samuel H. Gottscho. Robertson Ward, architectA RIVERSIDE HOME RECONSTRUCTED FROM THE RUINS OF AN OLD MILL
Photo by Samuel H. Gottscho. Robertson Ward, architect


IF YOU'RE GOING
TO LIVE IN
THE COUNTRY

BY THOMAS H. ORMSBEE
AND RICHMOND HUNTLEY



DECORATIONS BY FRANK LIEBERMAN



THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY

PUBLISHERS     NEW YORK

Copyright, 1937

By THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a magazine or newspaper.

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY THE VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, INC., BINGHAMTON, N. Y.


To
CARROLL
and
THERESE
NICHOLS


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

No book that covers so many phases of human relationships could be compiled without taking advice from those who are specialists. When we have wanted to know facts, we have freely turned to others whose detailed knowledge represented long experience. For this assistance we are particularly indebted to: M. Shaler Allen, Bruce Millar, Mrs. Herbert Q. Brown, and George S. Platts; also, to House & Garden, in which parts of this book appeared serially; and to Miss Eleanor V. Searing for many hours spent reading manuscript.

New Canaan, Conn.
April 1937


CONTENTS

PAGE
Introduction xi
CHAPTER
I. Why Live in the Country 3
II. Selecting the Location 19
III. Shopping for Property 35
IV. Call in an Architect 57
V. Building versus Remodeling 73
VI. Looking an Old House in the Mouth 91
VII. New Sites for Old Houses 105
VIII. The Smoke Goes up the Chimney 121
IX. The Question of Water Supply 139
X. Sewage Safety 153
XI. Decorations and Furnishings 165
XII. The Factory Part of the House 179
XIII. Pets and Livestock 191
XIV. Tightening for Winter 203
XV. Keeping Home Fires in Their Place 215
XVI. When Things Go Wrong 227
XVII. Working with Nature 243

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