Plan C. - This plan has many good points to commend it. The parlor is about the right size for a house built to be let, (otherwise it might be considered a little narrow), but we should prefer a sliding (or swinging) door to shut off draughts of cold air from the hall in the winter time. As will be seen, instead of simply having a square hall (as shown on Plan F), the side has been extended out one story in height and a small "den" or reception room has been formed. The library is of ample size, and the wash bowl off the dining room is very convenient (or a dish washer might be set if perferred). The pantry is poor; we would suggest extending the wall out to the corner of the library bay window (one story only in height). The water closet on the first floor will save many steps, but will need either a small furnace register, or a small radiator, or it will be likely to freeze up in the winter time and become a veritable nuisance. We would advise putting a sash door between the kitchen and the back entry-way, and also have glass in the outside door. The principal defect in this plan is lack of accommodations for a refrigerator and back entry closet, which could be overcome by an addition on the back of the kitchen, similar to that shown on the plan of Sylvester's house, the entrance to the kitchen being where the dresser is now located. Then the present back door should be stopped up or a window located there instead. The set wash bowl in the second story will be very convenient in case the bath room is occupied, but the two doors entering the bath room may lead to embarrassment sometime, in case a person taking a bath should happen to fasten only one door, as that is all that is usually necessary. Unless the rear bedroom door has ground glass panels, the rear end of the passage way is liable to be rather dark when all the doors are closed. As will be seen, the piazzas are quite ample, but the door in the second story that opens out on the balcony will be a cold thing in the winter, and may leak consideraly best. We would suggest a window reaching to within a foot of the floor, instead.

Plan D. - Suggestions: Stop up the door next to the sink and put in a window instead, and provide room for a refrigerator at the other back door. Flare the sides of diniug room bay so as to be able to put in full-sized windows at each side, thus narrowing up the straight part, in which a window may be put if desired, or the window can be omitted and the sideboard can be set there. Our preference would be to omit the fireplace in the parlor, and put the piano or organ there, and make the corner bay window much larger. One out about this plan is the fact that to answer the front door bell, one has to travel through two or three rooms and the length of the hall also. No set tubs are shown in the kitchen, but could be added if desired, but most likely there is a laundry finished off in the basement or cellar. The dish washer in the butler's pantry is very convenient. Our principal objections to this plan are; 1st, no hat-and-coat closet in front hall; and 2d, no lavatory (water closet and wash bowl, see Sylvester's plan) on first floor; and for a house of this size this appears to us to be a serious omission. Note the remark previously made in regard to doors for 2d story balconies.

Plan E. - This plan has a fine back entry and room for refrigerator, but no back entry closet. The other kitchen door and the library door opening on the piazza will be cold things in winter time. The balance of the first floor plan is very fine indeed, unless one preferred to locate the piano in the parlor where the fireplace now is. The only lack there appears to be a lavatory. In the second floor plan we should omit the fireplace in the parlor chamber and put the head of the bed there, as it would show better in that position and give easier access to closet over library. A serious fault is having the linen closet open off from the bath room, being thus subject to steam and odors. The bath room should have been sent clean back to the rear wall, its door carried close up to the rear bedroom partition; the entrance to the rear closet in library chamber should have been stopped up, and a door cut through from the hall, then we would have a fine large linen closet opening only from the hall.

Of course the front piazza and steps can be arranged to suit any particular location.

Plan F. - This is one of the best, to our way of thinking. The spacious front hall and front piazza are fine features, and the passage way leading directly from the kitchen to the front hall avoids the necessity for one to have to pass through another room to answer the front door bell. This is a great advantange where one entertains much. Personally, we would prefer a slightly protruding bay or curving front on the parlor with chimney omitted, and we would put the pantry window on the rear, and have a mixing counter and flour-barrel cupboard there (see Sylvester's plan), and locate the sink on the rear of the kitchen next to the pantry, the chimney being put in the rear left-hand corner.

The lack of a back entry with room for a refrigerator, and back-entry closet, also lack of a lavatory on first floor, are the serious omissions of this plan. As usual, the bath room window had to be put where one must climb over the bath tub to get at it. It would have been better to have placed same at back between the wash bowl and bath tub, where there was a clear space.

Plan G. - But little needs to be said about this plan. If the lobby on back were extended back a couple of feet, leaving the closet door where it is, there would be a fine chance to set a refrigerator. The sink appears to be in a warm place, but as provision is made for washing the dishes in the butler's pantry, perhaps this does not matter much, but it seems to us to be quite a distance from the kitchen range to the dining-room table. One would think, that with all the wasted room that there is in the butler's pantry, some proper method might have been adopted to secure a lavatory on the first floor. In the second floor plan we still find bath-room windows located in the most inaccessible places, but what puzzles us is the necessity of having a closet within a closet.

Plan H. - The striking features of this plan are the great round bay on the library, the fine piazzas, and the dining-room bay. The pantry is rather small, and the back entry lacks refrigerator room and a closet. No set tubs are shown in the kitchen, as doubtless a laundry is finished off in the cellar. The utility of a closet in the bath room is not apparent, unless it be for dirty clothes; we would prefer to have the room for a chair. Here again we find no lavatory on the first floor.

Plan I. - This is a double house and by extending it ten feet deeper, and slightly modifying some of the details, it could be made into a four-flat house. As will be seen, the lack of good closets is a serious drawback.

Plan J. - This a very fine plan but needs a back-entry closet, etc. It is but a few steps from the kitchen to the dining room, thus making easy the serving of food. The fine piazzas and coach porch are especial features. The bath-room fixtures might be differently arranged perhaps, so as to give better access to the window.

Finally. - It will be seen that we have freely criticised these plans, pointing out the good features as well as the defects and omissions, and we believe these criticisms will be helpful to those who have to draw house plans, as well as to prospective builders and house owners. We would simply say, however, that it is much easier to criticise, than to design a plan free from defects.