HOUSE & GARDEN's second House-of-the-Month is a bargain in good living because its split-level floor plan takes advantage of a sloping site and because it uses many space-making tricks. From the front it is a long (70'), low one-story house; inside, it has three floors. The living-dining room, on grade level, is joined to the entrance foyer but screened from it by a plant box, and borrows space from the outdoors through a floor-to-ceiling window-wall that opens to a rear living terrace. Also on this floor are kitchen-laundry, a lavatory, and a two-car garage with storage room for outdoor furniture and garden tools. Six steps up, but as removed from everyday comings and goings as a regulation second floor, are three bedrooms and a bathroom. Down six steps is a big, sunny playroom which, because it has an adjoining full bath, might double as a guest suite. (Building economy: because it is on the downhill side, the large playroom requires excavating only a half-basement.)
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source: House and Garden Magazine | February, 1955
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