In every community there's one wonderful home that everybody talks about. Families drive by it slowly, young couples dream of a future home just like it, and visitors are eager to discuss what they've seen inside. The Ranch-style Avalon is such a house.
The basic beauty of this design is readily apparent in The Avalon's faultless exterior of brick, stone and shingle. Among the outstanding features in the interior are an exceptionally large living room with an enormous picture window and a brick fireplace; a handsome dining room that forms the attractive house-wide, social center of the home with the living room; three big bedrooms with unbroken wall space for interesting arrangements of furniture units: two colored-tile bathrooms with glass-enclosed stall shower and custombuilt vanity table; expansion attic that you can convert into two more bedrooms and a third bath; and an attached garage that you can use for two cars or for one car and an extra storage space for garden tools, toys, bicycles and wagons.
After walking across the front yard, you step into a covered patio with a rounded flowerbed built into the brick wall under the living room's picture window. Then you open the front door at the right end of the patio and enter a square vestibule. A coat closet is conveniently located opposite the entrance.
Through an archway at the left, you walk into the lovely living room that has a white fireplace. and flanking bookshelves built into a mirrored sidewall with stunning effect. The long picture window set above the wall flowerbed gives an appealing vista of the front landscape through the patio. Another attraction is the staircase with the decorative iron handrails ascending toward the expansion attic on the unfinished second floor.
The dining room makes a spacious L- shaped area with the living room. Through a Dutch door in the sidewall shown at the left of the floor plan you can walk out onto a roofed back terrace for outdoor relaxation or entertainment in privacy. A swing door in the dining room's interior wall leads into the kitchen.
In the kitchen, cabinets, sink, stove and refrigerator have been arranged to make the most efficient and step-saving use of the space available. The sink, dishwasher, cabinets and work counters have been logically placed under a large window. The stove, work space and the refrigerator are arranged along the other walls. A built-in corner dinette set also is a feature of The Avalon's bright and cheery kitchen. The neat flooring is of rubber tile. Doors lead from the kitchen to the service entrance and the basement stairway and to the rear foyer, as well as to the dining room.
The basement provides plenty of room for a laundry, heating room, recreation center and hobby space. The specifications include three-coat plaster walls, a concrete basement, select-quality oak flooring, all copper plumbing, and oil-fired, hot-water heat with recessed-wall radiation and thick, all-over insulation that will save money on fuel bills year after year. In the sleeping area that occupies the right section of the floor plan, the three spacious bedrooms have generously proportioned closets fitted for fingertip storage of clothes and equipped with sliding doors set flush in the wall. The two bathrooms are imagina- tively finished in genuine colored tile, with colored matching fixtures, glass-enclosed stall shower and a special vanity table with a huge mirror.
There's extra space, too, in the two-car garage, the big second-floor expansion and the full basement. Besides space for cars and storage, the garage includes a work closet and shelves for tools and gardening equipment. The garage doors are of the single overhead type that swing up toward the ceiling. Overhead doors are usually counterbalanced to make lifting them up virtually effortless and are more popular than the vertical hinged type.
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