Cottages and Cottage Life: Containing Plans for Country Houses, Adapted to the Means and Wants of the People of the United States; With Directions for ... With Some Sketches of Life in This Country

Excerpt from Cottages and Cottage Life: Containing Plans for Country Houses, Adapted to the Means and Wants of the People of the United States; With Directions for the Laying Out and Embellishing of Grounds; With Some Sketches of Life in This CountryNow, any house, no matter how mean, may have all these considered. Good proportion may almost always be had; a pleasing color costs no more than a disagreeable one; one large and well-shaped window is better and cheaper than two small ones.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.