Floor areas: Superstructure, original house 520 square feet; with
addition, 825 square feet.
Small homes are often cut up into several rooms, with the result that in
them a person has a "boxed-in" feeling. In plan 6503 the rooms are few,
and each is used for more than one purpose. If the cost must be kept to
a minimum, the bedroom and sleeping porch may be omitted in the original
construction. The kitchen-dining room is unusually large for a house of
this size, and the equipment is grouped in the front part of the room
where the housewife can have a good view of the highway.
When the bedroom and sleeping porch are built, the bunk in the
kitchen-dining room may be taken out to provide more dining space; or
if one desires a cellar under part of the house, the cellar stairway
may replace the bunk space. A large window and high-beamed ceiling are
features of the living room. The chimney must not be too small; it is a
feature of the house.
[Illustration: FLOOR PLAN]
[Illustration: COMPLETED HOUSE]
[35] Prepared by R. A. Deal and W. W. DeNeff for the department of
agricultural engineering, State College of Washington.