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Lewis homes: homes of character (1922)

Lewis Manufacturing Co. · Lewis Manufacturing Co. · leaf 9

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examples, often mostpainful to the artistic eye, of thework of amateur home builders. It has been said that a manmust build three houses for him-self before he is satisfied, and thestatement is no exaggeration.Sometimes he tries to embody inone house all the ideas in homebuilding whichhave ever… … to live in. Or he lays out a floorplan, splendidly arranged, andthe outside appearance is freak-ish or entirely without character.He wastes lumber, time and en-ergy and is dissatisfied in the end. It is to avoid such heart-break-ing mistakes and to provide thehome builder with the advice…

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