Patron+ Good Ole Days: Hints to House Builders from the Birmingham Iron Age April 2, 1874

(Transcribed from the from the Birmingham Iron Age April 2, 1874)

HINTS TO HOUSE-BUILDERS

• Avoid such lots as will require your house to face North.
• Have your living rooms to face South always, if possible.
• Put your hall on the North side of the house.
• Don’t spoil your sunny windows by stretching a piazza outside which will keep the sun away.
• Live in your pleasantest room.
• Build no parlors to shut up; what is good enough for you is good enough for visitors.

219 Second Street (House), Thomas, Jefferson County, AL ca. 1890 (by Sue Benz, Historical Survey, HAER AL-114 Library of Congress)

Have a bow window in your living room. Make your windows large, and enough of them. Have plenty of good closets. A goodly pantry and a closet should be connected with the kitchen. Build a fire-place in your living room.

The height of your rooms should be one-third the sum of the width and length of your living room.

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