Before you have the problem of orienting your home, you have the more important problem of deciding on the kind of home you intend to build. It is one of the most, if not the most, important question you have to settle.

In the first place, it is an economic question, for you want to be sure of getting value received for the money you expend. To do so, the house you build must, aside from its satisfactory design, be permanent; it must be easily and economically maintained; it must be comfortable and safe against fire; and it must be attractive. In a word, it must give you satisfaction in every way, inasmuch as you and your family are going to be in it a long time; or, if circumstances compel you to move, you want the house to make a persuasively attractive appeal to the intending renter or purchaser.

Such a house you can build of brick, the endurance of which has been demonstrated through thousands of years. “By frost, nor fire, nor flood, nor even time are well burned clays destroyed.” This permanence of brick construction means a saving on insurance rates, on upkeep, and on depreciation, while the material lends itself to the most beautiful and varied artistic effects. “Strength and beauty,” the essential characteristics of all good building, may be fully met in brick construction.

If you have not already seen The Story of Brick, you should send for a copy, as you will find in it many valuable suggestions.

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