The good architect always gives the builder a set of plans that should make a satisfactory house, but, as an eminent architect recently said, “It seems to be the aim of most builders to change every detail of the architect’s plan.” So it is a wise idea to watch the construction of your home so that when the house is actually built you will find it not only attractive to look at but so well constructed in every detail that there are no complaints to make as to leaks or noise or cold. If a house is built of good materials, is well planned, is well put together, a sense of peace is usually the result. In order to accomplish this, every detail of the house must be considered, the windows and the doors, the stairs and floors. Due to the high cost of building, heavy masonry is not always used in the division of rooms and the separating of stairs from rooms. Where a slight partition only is required, there are on the market to-day asbestos, felt, and composition “boards” which render excellent service, and are often fireproof and sound-proof. To shut away a nursery, these light weight, sound-proof partitions are admirable. They not only leave a nursery perfectly quiet at night, shut away from all the disturbances of the house, but during the daytime they keep the family from hearing the play, the romping, or the unhappy times in the nursery. Of course, the arrangement of rooms, such as the relation of the nursery and kitchen to other parts of the house, has much to do with the peace of the home. The service end of the house should, so far as possible, be shut away by halls and doors, from too close communication with the living part of the house. Think of this when you are planning your home. All uncovered floors are noisy no matter how well they are laid or how nicely they are finished. Of whatever your floor is made it should be well constructed, over an adequate sub-floor; if of wood, it should be put down so compactly that there is never a sound from it. But when it comes to quiet you must have the carpets or rugs. Bare floor never produces it, under any conditions.