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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1959)
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON SUNDAY, JUNE 21, W59 THE HOUSE OF THE WEEK Make It Low, Long And Handsome PAGE SIX By DAVID L. ROWEN An architect whose usual ranp Is New Jersey recently took a wing through Texas and discov ered for himself that folks there have big ideas about living space. "Even in a home of moderate square foot area," Architect Les ter Cohen reports, "I found com bination living areas running about 500 square feet much bigger than they usually are in the North and East." Figuring that the rest of the country would find moving back the living room walls just as soul satisfying as Texans do, Cohen came back to his drawing board, put on a 10-gallon hat, and laid out this home for people who don't like to feel fenced in. It looks like a mansion, but actually is a medium sized house. Something New The big departure from tradi tional design in X 63 is what Co hen calls the ranch room," actu ally a combination living room and family or dining, room that measures 23'i by 20 feet. While foldaway doors can divide the space when desired, there is fixed divider at all in this huge living area. It's the kind of room where you can entertain all the relatives without crowding anybody into the kitchen. The "ranch room" runs from front to the back of the house, with through ventilation provided by floor-to-ceiling "windows at the front and sliding glass doors open ing to the terrace at back. A handsome fireplace is set in a rear comer, with the chimney run- ing through the wall and provid ing terrace barbecue. Another set of sliding doors lead to the screened dining porch behind the kitchen. Mei Jt L jf rtit ' n' - ' ; TI!f -.. lTi! """ """"" T r . ... j iM.m ' xr,. .; ... 4 fc-"-"" ' . --, iw mii miantr1 MANSION-LIKE LENGTH: This wide seven-room ranch was 20 feet. There are designed by Architect Lester Cohen with Southwestern Vh baths, motif. Its huge combined living-family room measures 23 by three bedrooms, a dressing room, and Two-Room M oarer Suite The house has a front foyer, routing traffic either into the big living room or into the center hall which services the sleeping wing. Cohen has provided a master bed room suite of two rooms and a bath, although slight changes would make each of these a sleep ing room and run the bedroom total to four. If only three bedrooms are re quired, however, the second room of the master suite will serve ad mirably as a dressing room, study or sewing room. It has all four closets for the two rooms to pro vide perfectly "clean" walls in the master bedroom itself. The other two bedrooms are served by a large bathroom with an alcove tub and dual sink vani- tory. Kitchen Is Wide Open The kitchen and utility area are compactly grouped near the serv ice entrance. Walls on both sides of the kitchen stop short of t h e front wall, leaving a natural hall way and promoting the wide open" feelingT The house has been engineered for construction either with or without the basement. Both ver sions, however, have a utility room on the ground floor and a lava tory in the service section. El aft k 1 SAT 1 Tltlltt ST' I IV J fc r f ' ScOfltH I ih, SftWCH J I W , U'r.ic J I ! i i i mm oimcW" tHlIvl 1 VTH. ITV MM FLOOR PLAN: Th. IOI'i-foo width of X-63 maVes it look much bigger than it actually ;.?". ' hl,ow "P"- Habitablo area measures 1,475 square feet. The house con be built either with or without a basement. Windows in the front wall are an unusual feature of the base ment. They look out on a sunken planter box. Another planter above this at ground level provides gar den beauty for the wide windows of the "ranch room" and kitchen. DESIGNED FOR RELAXATION: Here's an artist's conception of the graceful rear terrace, with terrace barbecue on right, sliding glass doors to "ranch room" near center, and dining porch (which would be screened) at left. The house has a marble chip roof, and combines vertical siding, wide plywood panels, and big glass areas to achieve its warm. square feet, not including garage, terrace or outdoor dining porch. Garage has 464 squae feet of space. Over-all dimensions are 101' hospitable look. It covers I,75!" wide by 28' deep. PIKER! LAKE CITY. Mich. (UP1) A three-ounce walleye pike was good enough to win first prise of an outboard motor for fisherman Harold Plate of Lake City. Plate and 799 other anglers had fathered on the ice of Lake Pep in, Wis., for the fish derby. In three hours, the only fish caught was Plate'! pigmy pike. NEW SUSPENSION POLICY AMHERST, Mass. l'PI) Am herst College students can be sus pended for not working to full capacity as well as for failing their courses under a new school policy. It is expected to affect about a doien students a year and is designed to make all students extend themselves as far a they can. WORKED TOO WELL CANANDAIGI'A, N Y. UPI Leo F. Seguin, 31, protecting his motor against freeiing tempera tures, wrapped a blanket around it and ran an extension cord from his house, lighting a system of electric bulbs to furnish addition al heat. The motor didn't freeze. hut th hlankM ranoht fir mnA lid flM damage. t Send this coupon for your STUDY PLAN m, ?U, CN GET a study PIar tot The House of ine Week by filling in your name and address on me coupon on this page and sending it with 50 cents to this newspaper. . This study plan shows each floor of the house eJ Wl,i1 lach of the wr elevations, front, rear ,ot,the house' 11 is sca,ed at Mi-inch per foot it includes a guide on "How to Get Your House OUllt. 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 construction in this area as well as an idea of the cost in relation in your budget. With this information you will know whether you will want to proceed with construction by order ing working blueprints direct from the architect and asking for bids for the work STUDY PLAN ORDER COUPON Building Editor: Enclosed is 50 cents. Pleose send me o copy of the study plon of Tho House of The Week. X-63 I!mm eM) Street City . State.
