Hints for dwellings : consisting of original designs for cottages, farm-houses, villas, &c., plain and ornamental, with plans to each : in which strict attention is paid to unite convenience and elegance with economy : including some designs for town houses
A 1800 London architectural pattern book by David Laing, printed for the Architectural Library, offering original designs for cottages, farmhouses and villas for builders and gentry of the period. Its plates pair engraved elevations of each house with floor plans set beneath, several shown in sepia tone with some pages rotated sideways. A designer might take the balanced symmetrical facades, pedimented porches and neat room layouts as models for early nineteenth-century domestic architecture.
