I like irregular houses. To my mind they are not only more convenient, but also more beautiful than regular ones. They possess this important advantage, that you can lay out your ground plan with an eye to convenience and comfort alone, and then build the house in accordance with it, while in a square house you are bounded by a stern and uncompromising rectangle, which will not permit you to take any liberties with its uniformity by projecting a conservatory here, a library there, or a dining or drawing-room somewhere else.

It is one of the rarest things in this world to find two people who have precisely the same ideas concerning a house; it is therefore wise to furnish various plans and designs, in order that, if not all, many may be suited; but I am greatly in favor of irregularly planned buildings, particularly out of town. It is undoubtedly cheaper to build in a square form, but you lose so much in beauty and convenience, that I would prefer to retrench in some other way, either by reducing the size of the building, or expending less upon the interior finish.