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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1961)
Umttl. Store It. 1W1. Pw I THf: HOUSE OF THE WEEK HERALO AMO Newt, KUMUJttl Fllv On. Split Level Tops In Economy By DAVID L. BOWEN Prospective homeowners hunt ing for a house design that yields maximum usable space at mini mum cost have a vested interest in the split level design. Because it manages to make completely livable nearly half the space wasted as basement under a ranch, anyone building a split gets a built-in bonus. In B-55 in the House of the Week series this bonus is paid in the form of a luxurious reception foyer, a family room with lavatory, and a garage. Tliesc features, gained at littlr extra cost, spell the difference between "just another house" and a home of distinction. Hie most remarkable tiling about this home of distinction is that the area of the six rooms and bath .on bedroom and living levels is only 1.098 square feet. If this! were a ranch, that would be the entire house. Thanks to the space bonus of the split. Architect Ru dolph Matern gained 288 addi tional square feet of space for use as familv room, reception foy er and grade level lavatory. The single car garage is on this same level, but not included in the square footage total. Other features are a "freshen up nook" near the main bath, a covered porch off the living room and terrace off the dining room, a breakfast balcony, living room fireplace and dramatic entrance way. Long planters, a bow window, light overhang of the bedroom level and pierced brick screens give balance and interest to the front facade. The side porch con tributes substantially to the ap pearance of generous width. Di mensions of the house itself are 4U' 8" in width by 26' 3" in depth. Side porch adds 10' to the width. Additional Dttoilt Tlic imposing doublc-doored en trance foyer is room size and has a 7-foot bank of closets. Slate floor, planters and the brick wall SPLIT WITH DISTINCTION: There are only 1,098 sq; ft. of space on bedroom and living levels of this small spilt level, but the home has a character all Its own. Among extending from indoors to the outdoors add lo the luxurious im pression. A louvered door opens to family room through wood pon ded wall at the rear, of the foyer. In addition to serving as a glam orous reception hall for guests be-' fore they move up the wide ear-i peted steps to. the formal living area, the foyer acts as a central traffic hub among garage, base ment and family room. An appearance of even greater length is added to the 20-foot liv ing room by the sliding glass doors leading to the side porcn From the center of the living room a similar long sight line extends across the dining room to the terrace and bevend. A kitchen breakfast balcony overlooks the family room to form another large open area, this one reserved for family activities. The strategically located kitchen serves formal, informal and out door dining areas with equal dis patch. ; All facilities for family activi ties are focused in the rear of the house for privacy, but with good access to all other zones, the lavatory off the family room has an outside door nearby to increase its usefulness and keep tracking from the outside to a minimum. Three bedrooms with ample clos ets are "concentrated in a quiet zone above. All can be entered from an efficiently short hall at the head of the stairs. The freshen-up nook on the bed room level a vanity top w ith lav atory and splayed mirror walls is an unusual extra feature for a small home. It's intended both for guest use and as a temper-saving overflow, facility for the morning rush hour. B-5S STATISTICS This small split- level has 1,098 sq. ft. of habitable area on living and bedroom levels, with an extra 288 sq. ft. of "bonus" s d a c a on the grode level. There are seven rooms, with a luxuriously large re ception foyer and l-'s baths. Over - all width. Including covered side porch, is 53'8". Without the porch the house is 43' 8" wide. Depth is 26" 3". 1KB- ''I fflnf- ifcf? H. ill !- Pit ; f i . ' v.- GRAND FOYER: This artist's view looks from just outside the wide open double front doors across the 8' x 10' foyer Into the family room at rear and living room up the wide steps to left. - - Mafh Class Rescheduled, At Campus OREGON STATE COLLEGE - A second seven-week summer in stiluto for 50 matheinntically gift ed high school boys will be given at Oregon State College this year. It will be one of only two three such programs sponsored in the U.S. by tlie National Sci ence Foundation. ' OSC held a similar experimen tal program for SO high school "math whizTry a year ngo with students attending from N e v York City, Alaska, and points be tween. Inquiries about the pro gram were received from 546 high school students. Robert L. Brown of Mulin was one of the 50 high school students enrolled in last years institute. High scliool sophomores and juniors will be selected for the institute, according to Dr. Robert E. Gaskell, professor of matlie-' matics, who will be in charge again this summer. Students picked will receive study grants covering a part of their expenses. OSC received a grant of $16,560 from National Science Foundation' to conduct the special program, which is designed to enrich live mathematics background of the gifted students. The scven-wcekjsignments. course will include a taste -oi everything" in advanced modem, mathematics, Gaskell said, and its application in science, engi necring and industry. It will cover such topics as nu merical analysis, linear algebra. electronic computer design and logic, and group theory. A typical weekly schedule will include 16 hours of math lectures and class discussion, 6 hours of liiboratory work, and special study periods to allow students to do daily as- special features are a large recreation foyer, breakfast balcony overlooking family room, living room and dining room terraces and the lovely exterior appearance. living level f bedroom level I . tfIoi ' i't?i ,buoW3llwxy I . ; te-- p, i rxxyl - ' iK-kyc;i - p f"ch" ' 'M'"rr J I J AlWKt under UJ. FLOOR PLANS: Breakfast balcony glamorizes the kitchen-family room area at the rear while combination of large reception foyer, wide steps up to the living room, fireplace, bow window and covered porch accomplish same feat in the front of the house. living level v-entrance level I .eiMror.cl h4dtJt3,up LaiUJ I -"'(teK-ual5..-i5 m ,, pin I !H T U II- I - i. i- LA- l3 '.rS Send this coupon for your STUDY PLAN YOU CAN GET a study plan for The House of The Week by filling in your name and address on the coupon on this page and sending it with 50 cents to this newspaper. This study plan shows each floor of the house together with each of the four elevations, front, rear and sides of the house. It is scaled at Va-inch per foot. It includes a guide on "How to Get Your t louse 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 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. j STUDY PLAN ORDER COUPON ! J Building Editor: Enclosed is 50 cents. Please send me a s copy of the study plan of The Homo of The ! ' Week B-55 J I (please erinf) I Name . ! Srratt City Stare J
