HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1058
THE HOUSE OF THE WEEK
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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
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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.
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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.
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THE MAIN LEVEL it shown in the plan above. The future
layout of the optional basement plan is shown below.
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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.
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