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Estimating Frame And Brick Houses

This closet is fitted up with drawers, racks, shelves and pastry mixing board. There are four drawers for flour, meal, sugar, etc., and a spice case made either with a nest of drawers or with tin cases incased with wood, set in between the shelves. There will be required about 200 feet of stuff and six days' labor to fit up this closet. The necessary hardware, nails, tinware, screws, etc., will cost about $3. As the kitchen is wainscoted, it will be necessary to wainscot this closet, and we would suggest that it be done in hemlock, as hemlock is the most difficult of wood for mice or rats to gnaw through, owing to its splintery nature. The cost of wainscoting is not included in the above estimate. The sink complete will require about 40 feet of stuff to make it, and to prepare the stuff, make and fit the drawers, make and hang the doors, build in frame, put up splashboard, shelf and top, will take one man about two and a half days. The hardware, including drawer pulls, hinges, snaps, nails and screws, would cost about $1. We do not include the sink, as that is generally furnished by the plumber. Besides this work there yy ill always be more or less shelving and hook racks required in a kitchen, and we have always made provision for at least $5 worth of extra work, usually found necessary before the room is in a proper condition to please the cook. This extra work will consist of corner shelves, pot hooks in various places, racks for dishes over sink, divisions in drawers and many other things not much in themselves, but which are inportant to the ruler of the kitchen, and which are time and material consumers; therefore, after every possible, and I might say impossible, thing has been provided for in a kitchen, it is always well to add in another $5 to please the cook, and it pays all round.

Pantry.

We now take up the pantry, which measures on the floor 7 x 7 feet, exclusive of china closet and cubby attached. On the rear end is a cupboard extending across
the whole length, as may be seen in Fig 17. This cub board, including doors, drawers and finish, is 8 feet 6 inches high, finished with molded cornice on top.