Mr. and Mrs. E. Petrikat, Jr.'s, house in Coconut Grove, Florida, architect Howard B. Knight

Almost everyone today wants a small house (easy to run) with lots of space (for expansive living). You can reconcile the two by making a point of a porch. For Mr. and Mrs. E. Petrikat, Jr.'s, house in Coconut Grove, Florida, architect Howard B. Knight designed a porch divided from the living- dining room by a triple folding door, so that the indoor and outdoor rooms can be used as one. He continued the porch out to the garden by installing a flower bed partly on the porch, partly beyond it. Roll-up slat blinds afford shade, an attic fan drains warm air out of the house and all the rooms have two-way ventilation. On cool days a warm-air furnace heats the rooms. Exterior walls are cypress siding, painted pale yellow and the trim is white. Living room plaster and paneled walls are gray- green, bedrooms are gray, all cool and very livable.

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source: House and Garden Magazine | august 1951