372 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. on the original Design is a glass window as a door to the garret, instead of the boarded one shown in fig. 760. This garret, instead of being entered by a ladder outside, might be got at by a trap- door in the ceiling of the kitchen, with a hanging ladder like that shown in fig. 158, § 179. The area covered by this building is 920 superficial feet; and it would cost, in the neighbour- hood of Paris, ^"'258 : 8s. : 4d. ; but in the departments of France the ex- pense would not be above half that sum. 743. On the Construction and Ar- rangement of this Design, Morel- Vinde has the following remarks : — The post which, in fig. 758, is shown at k, as proceeding from the kitchen dresser, may be thought to be incon- venient, but it is not found to be so in practice ; on the contrary, it serves as a standard to drive hooks or nails into, on which to hang things : at aU events, its position there is essential to the solution of the problem of using no wood in the whole building that is longer than ten or twelve feet. However, where wood is abundant, it might be avoided by substituting over it one strong and long beam,
