Exposed beams accent the easy sweep of roof, have a decorative effect without marring the simplicity of the whole design; painted trim around the door gives further uncluttered accent. Additional note: sundial on the hexagonal redwood stand.
Hide roof overhang gives shadow interest to the plain stucco walls, clean cut lines of the window frame dramatize the grouping of living and dining room windows. This three-bedroom house uses the same staggered board fence to extend the visual line, shelter the carport. All the houses are built with slab floor and dry wall construction.
In this typical living room predominant colors are browns, greens and gray, the fabrics cotton or linen. Lamp standards of black wire are decorative and functional; their height is in perfect balance with the feeling of size and openness which the high ceiling gives. Slab floor is covered with waxed asphalt tile of soft gray-green; door at the right leads to the outdoor living area.
Another living room has one wallpapered wall, another wall of deep-textured chipboard of pressed cedar chips (foreground). Exposed beams, ceiling of striated planks and the colorful cedar wallboard are typical of Mr. Fickett's masterful handling of structural details as decorative features.
Bedroom in one of the houses is furnished as a denguest room with modern desk and chair, daybed slip-covered in colorful checkered linen, and natural straw matting on the asphalt tile floor. All houses use exposed beams and straited ceilings which are in reality the underside of the sloping roof deck, thus cutting the cost and adding to ceiling height.
Like many of the rooms, this bedroom has adjustable glass louvre windows, easily handled, giving excellent ventilation since the entire window area can be opened. New and non-costly features like this, added to the open planning and excellent floor plans, explain the appeal which has made the Fickett- Hommes tract an epochal success.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY GEORGE DE GENNARO | 1950
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