A MCM home from Tacoma, Washington, designed by architect: Robert Billsbrough Price

 


This house turns its carport and a blank wall to the street, and inside the house you will find a family room, a choice of dining areas, generous built-in kitchen equipment and specialized storage. Improved forms of lighting and recently developed materials such as translucent plastic panels are also demonstrated here. But above all, this builder's house shows what up-to-date planning can do to make a small house seem large, almost double in size, in fact, by the addition of carefully organized outdoor areas that make the most of every inch of a small lot. Despite its location in a crowded suburban area, every major room in the house has a window wall and complete privacy as well. In achieving this feat, canny planning was abetted by a simple device as old as civilization which is being handled today in a new manner-the tall fence.











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source: House and Garden Magazine | November 1960

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