The El Paso expresses the "New Look" in currently changing type of American Home Design. Expanded frontage moderately following the ranch house plan, it also achieves distinct individuality. Observation of recently built fine homes will disclose the present popularity of hip roof as illustrated above. Resale value in the home is an important factor and this is insured by good appearance, good plan and highest quality. The exterior walls are shown with Cedar "Shakes," laid at wide exposure for greatest beauty. You may have your choice of several soft, pleasing colors. If you prefer, bevel siding can be furnished in place of the Shakes. We show plan One with garage attached, while plan Five does not have an attached garage.

Rich in provincial charm and quiet sophistication, here is one of our newest additions to the Aladdin family of beautiful homes. The enduring beauty in the graceful lines of this creation will give your home a high quality of distinction. The lasting charm portrayed in the sweeping roof with the plain front gable will provide beauty for a lifetime. Much thought has been taken in planning and executing the newest trends in this design. Study the floor plans and note the many desirable features incorporated into this lovely home. Expanded kitchens, large living rooms, and bedrooms in a separate wing are the most wanted features in any new home. 

This plan for 1955 expresses sincerity of "design for living" and avoids extremist conceits lately seen in ultra modern "shed-roof" creations. The structure of the Del Monte is splendidly proportioned, sound in exterior detail and contrasting surfaces. Wide, strong eaves, lower than usual roof pitch, and distinctive perpendicular redwood wall surfaces are distinguishing characteristics. Note the triple scenic window has center sash that may be opened. The carport, if ordered with the Del Monte, can easily be converted into additional rooms in the future, by enclosing the three walls. Two, three-bedroom plans are shown below. Room arrangements are convenient and efficient. Few living-dining rooms will be found more spacious in almost any home of greater size. The Del Monte plans shown are quoted without carport. 

A continuing study of the changing trends in home architecture has been under way by Aladdin through the past year. It has been an interesting project for our designers. We have watched the changes through the past forty-eight years, ranging from the strict functionalism of this country's first decade-plain square houses in one and two stories with no embellishments-followed by the famed so-called California bungalow with its heavy eaves, roof supporting brackets, windows with small divided lights and shingled walls. A radical change in elevation and detail made its appearance with greater simplicity of elevation and detail in story and a half with unbalanced entrance roofs. The 1930's introduced the tremendous vogue of the Cape Cod. This style swept the country from East to West-a period of some fifteen years or more, when it was relegated "to live in memory we leave behind." Enter the great and really universal approval of the Ranch house -a spontaneous popularity seldom matched.

It has been the habit of the Aladdin Company to provide American home-builders with styles which are currently popular. This we have done in the past, and present. Ranch house architecture is at the height of popular present-day demand, and be assured, will long remain so because it is ideally adapted to the American way of life.

A new trend has recently made its appearance, influencing design features of exterior home elevations. These are expressed in contrasting outside wall materials, more and larger windows, a terrace for outdoor living, lower pitched roofs, wider eaves, and exposed roof rafter ends.

The term most used by its creators to describe the latest trend of home designs is "Contemporary" as opposed to "Conventional."

In presenting Aladdin's version of "Contemporary," we have avoided the extremist school of design with its shed roofs, glass outside walls and inharmonious and incongruous elevations.

The studies and research, culminating in the "Rambler" were not completed in time for inclusion in our 1954 edition of our catalog. 

A home that can be placed either way on your lot. Frontage required can be as narrow as forty feet, or when placed the long way on your site, can still occupy a fifty foot lot. In the Plan 1, note especially the entry which gives access to every room in the house. A convenient coat closet near front door is provided in both floor plans. The large, floor- to-ceiling scenic window can be interchanged with the mullion window in the living room, if you prefer. Here is a compact home designed for the small family but incorporating all of the living qualities of the large family ranch style.