Excerpt from How to Build a Home: The House Practical, Being Suggestions as to Safety From Fire, Safety to Health, Comfort, Convenience, Durability, and EconomyIt should be remembered that mistakes in the building of houses are not always limited in their consequences to the amount of money which might have been saved by better forms of construction. They are sometimes far reaching and involve not merely the structural strengthor habitable conditions of the entire building, but affect its commercial value to the extent of a large percentage of its cost.It is an old saying that fools build houses for wise men to live in, but it is questionable which is the greater fool of the two, the man who builds an inconvenient and irrational dwelling or the one who buys it of him after it has been finished.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.