Its not often you see a five-room home done in the English tradition. Big places, yes, but not five-room ones. Yet this home, designed by William N. Caton for the S. J. Coes, Winfield, Kansas, nicely carries on that rugged, enduring look of the moors.
Architect Caton worked in features especially suited to the whole family. He designed the front bedroom especially for Mrs. Coe, whose hobby is weaving. Its fireplace and pine-paneled walls make it a cozy room indeed, and especially good for showing her weaving. She has set up her large hand loom there under the window. At night, Mr. Coe, out on farms most of the day, heads for a comfortable chair and a good book beside the living-room fireplace, which is fronted with old handmade bricks. The small son in the family, Mike, goes thru clean clothes at a gallop, and the fact that the house is basementless and has a laundry just off the kitchen is much to his advantage, tho Mrs. Coe is more aware of it than he. Tam, the Coe Scottie, has found the high stone window ledges make a fine place to stretch in the sun out of Mike's reach.
Storage space is provided under the roof and over the garage. Panels in the front bedroom are removable, exposing sizable areas under the roof. Living and dining rooms have low ceilings of pecky-cypress beams and pine boards.
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