IT WILL PAY YOU to examine the Sun Valley carefully. Even if its layout does not meet your requirements, you will find many bright ideas that you may be able to apply to your next home. In fact, the Sun Valley was originally designed as an "idea house" to help raise funds for a hospital. It contains many new ideas that excite the imagination.
Note, for instance, the pool arrangement at the entrance patio-a shallow, safe enclosure where water lilies or even small fish may be raised. And as you enter the spacious vestibule, with its double-doored guest closet, your eyes are drawn to a huge log-burning fireplace. Adjoining the fireplace is an opening in the floor which leads to the basement. Large, colorful plants extend into the living room through the floor opening, and behind them, feeding sunlight into the room is a story and a half window wall.
The living room is almost enclosed in glass. The window wall behind the planter is on one side and huge glass doors leading to the terrace are on the other. The result is an area that is light and cheerful even on the most dismal days. A large L- shaped dining room leads off the living room and adds substantially to the appearance of the great size in this section.
The kitchen is another eye-stopper. It measures a full twenty feet long and is eight feet wide. It has an unusually large breakfast nook with glass doors opening onto the porch. Along the kitchen walls there is room for exceptionally spacious cabinets, refrigerator, dishwasher, oversized oven and range, plus clothes washer, clothes dryer and food freezer-all the equipment required for a complete woman's workshop in one compact arrangement.
"Island-type" kitchen workcounter units are provided for. These enable the house- wife to save many steps in planning and preparing meals. Also note the angular walls of the kitchen and dining room-a device that gives the maximum amount of usable space to both rooms.
In keeping with the expansive dimensions elsewhere, the bedrooms are oversized. All open onto a center hall which is separate from the main hall, and all have unusually generous storage closet facilities. As an additional convenience there is a large walk-in closet accessible to all three bedrooms.
The third bedroom can be shut off with a folding partition instead of a door. It can be used as a den or as an extension of the living room when you entertain. Another useful specification here is a foldaway bed so that you can keep sleeping facilities hidden but handy.
The garage is open at both ends and can double as a playspace. The stairs leading from the entrance hall on the main floor extend into a huge recreation room and play area. An entire wall is dominated by the basement planter-the same planter from which vines and small trees rise into the living room. The architect has partitioned off sections to serve as bathroom, heating room, storage area, and shop area. He also has specified a direct exit to the outdoors, covered with a double-leaf steel hatchway. This feature enables users of the basement to enter and leave without disturbing occupants of the main floors.
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