Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner.

  • Turner, Ernest.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    east; but on the whole west would seern most advisable. The library is not a room likely to be much used in the afternoon except in winter, or by some insatiable scholar, for whom it enters the “ study ” category, and becomes amenable to the laws of “ fads.” The principal uses, by the ordinary run of household or guests, will be as a morning letter-writing-room, and as an afternoon bad-weather lounge; and for either purpose a western aspect is suitable. The library should be thoroughly well ventilated, or the smell of the books will become oppressive ; and it should be specially free from damp, or the books themselves will rapidly become mouldy. For position, the more isolated the better; especial care being taken that it should not be in any position to be made into a thoroughfare, and that it should not be within ear-reach of any room where music of any kind is ever carried on. It should therefore never communicate directly with the drawing-room or morning-room. The Billiard-room, if intended ever to be used by day—and in every country house it is the recreation- ground in bad weather—must of course be sky- lighted, and is therefore of necessity either on the top of the house or to some extent detached from it—the latter being more convenient. It must be at the least 24 ft. by 18 ft., and these dimensions will accommodate players only, not spectators ; leaving a space of 6 ft. only round the table. For comfort there should be a