THE plan of The Haven is as up-to-date as next year's new car. But this five- room Ranch home could still fit into the most conservative community without raising any of your neighbor's eyebrows.
The Haven has been carefully planned to tuck a maximum of modern housing comfort into a compact rectangular area approximately 41 x 31 feet. Yet, neatly built into this space are a 19 x 15-foot living room, three generous-sized bedrooms, a dining alcove, a big, well- organized kitchen, a bathroom with a glass-enclosed tub and a custom-built vanity table of laminated plastic, and seven closets. In addition to all these attractive units there are a full basement of poured concrete, plenty of storage space, and room left over for everybody in the family to move about the home with ease.
After mounting a brick landing, you step through the front doorway into a vestibule. Opposite the entrance is a large guest closet with sliding doors.
Through an archway at the right of the vestibule you walk into a spacious living room. A wide picture window, set in the front wall, adds a modern touch to this bright room. A double window in the side- wall adds more light to keep the room sunny and cheerful throughout the year. But despite the large window area there is still plenty of unbroken wall space for varied and unusual arrangements of furniture in the room.
A broad archway in the rear interior wall of the living room leads into the dining alcove. The dinette has been combined with the modern, U-shaped kitchen, but there's still enough space in the dining section to accommodate a full-sized dining- room suite. A double window in the rear wall and another window over the kitchen sink gives plenty of light and fresh air.
The kitchen has been expertly designed to make it a work area that's not only practical and highly efficient but also appealing to the eye. Counters, cupboards, cabinets, sink, range and refrigerator form the energy-saving, U-shaped arrangement of the modern equipment. A ventilation fan, built into the wall, over the range removes excess heat and unpleasant odors. A doorway near the rear corner of the dining section leads to a small hallway that contains a closet. At the rear of this hall is the back door of the house.
At the opposite end of the hall from the back entrance is the stairway leading down to the full basement. The heating plant in this poured-concrete cellar is a hot- water system in which a coal, gas or oil furnace supplies hot water not only to the radiators but also to the bathroom and the kitchen.
The sleeping area is designed around a central hallway that gives access to all three bedrooms, the bath and the living room. Also opening off this hall are two extra storage closets and a linen closet with four deep shelves. Each of the three bed- rooms is large enough to hold all the essential furniture without any feeling of crowd- ing. The master bedroom, in the front corner of the house, and the junior bed- room, to the rear, have lots of cross ventilation from their double-exposure windows.
The attractive modern bathroom has its equipment, including soap dish and toothbrush holder, made of a colorful vitreous china. Since the walls and flooring are ceramic tile, it's a simple task to keep this bathroom gleaming. Other extras here include a glassed-in tub and a laminated plastic vanity with a large mirror. The exterior of The Haven is finished with wood shingles and asbestos. Roofing is asphalt shingle.
This plan does not include a garage or an expansion attic. But at $11,000, plus the cost of the land, this Ranch-style home lives up to its name by serving as a real "haven" of comfort for the small family.
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