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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1958)
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1058 THE HOUSE OF THE WEEK PAGE 8 C Build This luxury Ranch With Budget Dollars By JOHN O. B. WALLACE With imaginative planning, lux ary traits can be built into an economy-size home. This ranch, although small in area and de signed for budget builders, has many details found usually in higher priced residences. designated X-ll in the House of The Week series, it has six rooms (including three bedrooms) in an area of 1,069 square feet. The plan tes further appeal to the budget conscious builder because of an eptional basement arrangement which can add two additional rooms and a workshop. Its interior features include a dropped living room with cathed ral ceiling, a balconied dining room, a raised dining terrace and a circular rear patio. By finishing the basement, you can add an adult recreation room with a tele- separating walls, with window ar- cessed bay, create an illusion of merge indoor and outdoor dining house. vision and hi-fi center and a chil- rangements, doors, plumbing and greater space. areas. Exterior details include vertical dren's play room. other structural details be installed The adjoining dining room is one The outdoor dining terrace is boards on all sides with some The structural parts of the at the time of construction. s(ep above the living room and sheltered on two sides by the liv- brick veneer at the front, asphalt basement are installed when the Wall finishes, floor coverings, sits on a shallow balcony, separat- ing and dining rooms and is par- shingles for the roof and brick house is built. folding doors, bar and cabinets and ed from the living room by a tia'Jy sheltered on the other two planters. The rear patio and the Although bu:lding and material other finishing touches can be add- wrought iron railing. The bedroom sides by the kitchen and the car- walk ay be either flagstone or costs vary greatly throughout the ed later at the convenience of the wing can be reached from the liv- port. scored, colored concrete. country, Architect Herman H. owner. ing room or the dining room-kitch- There is direct access to the out- York, who developed design X-ll, On the main level, the dropped en area. door dining terrace and the patio estimates the basement area can living room is one step below the The kitchen is in a rear, corner from both the front living room be finished for perhaps an addi- rest of the house. The cathedral setting to permit maximum light and the rear kitchen, tional Jl.500 .,.,. ?nd. in8-bigh win- and ventilation. It is large enough i the basement, the two recrea- The architect suggests that the dow wall, the latter set in a re- t0 accommodate a breakfast nook tion rooms may be closed off by ' ia?iii mimT!T, , , i iT"TiB f -ti 5 H THIS RANCH, designed for budgeted families, has-wealth of details customarily found only in higher priced homes. Its six rooms can be increased to eight by completing an optional basement plan. Three bedrooms are in a wing at the left. The living areas include a dropped living room with a cathedral ceiling and a ceiling-high window wall. -1 - . .. i tp i ir-m-Hyzr- - 25.? IB ipt r-yh iwP !J kitchen fars "Tt Trr . FP wningrm r T ir.-si k - ?J;- paono Jigs LIVING RM. CARPORT TS: BtDRM."J. . -IT- and it has been planned to pro- folding doors or they may be vioe a maximum amount oi worn thrown open into one large room space and cabinet storage area. for special occasions. A lavatory, Because the bedroom wing can between the two recreation rooms, be reached from two serviceways, may be entered from either room, the house has an excellent circula- A work shop, walk-in storage tion pattern which minimizes un- closet, open storage area and boil - necessary walking. er room complete the basement Sliding glass doors separate the plan. A separate exit from the living room and the raised dining children's play room permits terrace, and one wall of the dining youngsters to come and go at will room is glass, which tends to without entering other parts of the Statistics Design X 11, with overall dimensions of 45 feet by 36 feet 1 inch, will fit a 60 by 100 foot lot. The habitable area of the main level, excluding the car port, has 1,069 square feet. On this level are the living room, dining room, kitchen, three bed rooms, and bath. The optional basement plan includes space for a children's play room, an adult recreation room, a work shop and storage areas. CHILDRENS PI AY RI4 Ttrt ADULTS T RICRtMlOW ROOM OHtft X-ll THE MAIN LEVEL it shown in the plan above. The future layout of the optional basement plan is shown below. g pi 2 Bj THIS INTERIOR VIEW of House of The Week design X I I looks from the balconied dining room into the dropped living room. The ceiling-high window wall in the living room is set in a recessed bay. The entrance foyer is at the right. -Send this coupon for your STUDY PLAN- YOU CAN GET a study plan for The House of The Week by filling in youi name and address on the coupon on this page and sending it with 35 cents to this newspaper. This study plan shows each floor of the house to gether with each of the four elevations, front, rear and sides of the house. It is scaled at Vfc-inch per foot. It includes a guide on "How to Get Your House Built." You can take this study plan to your bank or other mortgage lender and to your builder and get rough estimates on the cost of con struction in this area, as well as an idea of the cost in relation to your budget With this information you will know whether you will want to proceed with con struction by ordering work ing blueprints direct from the architect and asking for bids for the work. - STUDY PLAN ORDER COUPON Building Editor: Enclosed is 35 cents. Pleose send me a copv of the study plan of Th House of The Week, Design X 11. Name StrMt Cify . .. IpletM print) ...... 5tta
