قراءة كتاب If You're Going to Live in the Country
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If You're Going to Live in the Country
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, 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
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 |
