The usual way to get an appearance of old-fashioned timber work on a house is by nailing boards on the brickwork to represent the framed timber and plastering the intervening spaces flush with the wood; the plaster to be afterwards whitewashed, and the boards painted a dark brown. Tolerably stout deal boards should be used, and for plaster, Portland cement, with a fair proportion of sand, is advised. The arrangement of the sham timbers is a matter of taste; but suggestions are given in Figs. 1 and 2. By the " look-out in the roof" it is presumed that a dormer window is meant. The illustrations show such a window, which recedes a little from the eaves. It rests on, and is framed to, the rafters of the roof. Its triangular sides and gable will be of lath and plaster. In the elevation (Fig 2) a roughly carved barge board is shown in the gable; This adds much to the effect, and should not be omitted.

Fig. 1.

Fig. 2. Sham Timber Building.