Floor areas: Superstructure, first unit 630 square feet; with first
addition 985 square feet; completed house 1,285 square feet. Porches,
385 square feet.
[Illustration: COMPLETED HOUSE]
[Illustration: FLOOR PLAN]
In both designs the development from two large rooms progresses
logically, the main difference being that in plan 6520 the additions are
made at the side, while in plan 6521 the new rooms are added at the rear
of the first unit. Although all the rooms of 6521 a r e shown as larger
than those of 6520, by slight alterations either size of house may be
built from either plan. The choice should be determined largely by the
slope of the building site.
[Illustration: FLOOR PLAN]
In each original house a temporary partition provides 2 bedrooms in place
of a living room. The first addition adds 2 other bedrooms, and the
removal of the partition between the temporary bedrooms provides a large
living room. The second addition increases the total number of bedrooms
to 3 by adding 2 and refitting 1 in the first addition as a bathroom.
Each kitchen is ideally located to command a view of the driveway,
highway, and farm buildings. Closets, pantry, and other equipment utilize
the darker part of the room, leaving the lighter portions for working
area and dining table. These arrangements are complete in the original
house.
On the screened back porch, which is equipped with laundry trays and
closet, men coming from the fields may hang their outside work garments
and, except in cold weather, wash before entering the house. Here a great
deal of the dirty and messy work in preparing fruits and vegetables for
canning may be done. Entrance from the screened porch to the bath or
bedrooms reduces to a minimum the traffic through the kitchen and living
room. In plan 6520 the screened porch might be divided by a lattice into
work and living spaces.
[Illustration: COMPLETED HOUSE]
[Illustration: FLOOR PLAN]
[13] Prepared by Eldred Mowery and C. E. Cope for the Bureaus of
Agricultural Engineering and Home Economics, U.S. Department of
Agriculture.