Wide horizontal siding, white stucco and clever bandsawn-work makes this California Colonial House of special interest. A central entry-hall and corner windows in both bedrooms are worthy of note. Charming corner cupboards of white pine were pleasingly used in the dining room.
This rambling ranch home, designed for suburban acreage, provides indoor and outdoor areas for the enjoyment of living. The unique arrangement of rooms lends an air of individuality, giving a distinctive charm not found in conventionally designed homes.
Where spaciousness of social quarters is sought within restricted area, here is an ideal arrangement to comfortably house a couple, one child and one servant. The articulate but intercommunicating arrangement of study, living room, dining room and library combined, results in a spacious feeling and interesting vistas from bay to bay. The bar in den is serviced by the pantry immediately in its rear. A large block of book shelving separates the diningbay from this study, but no door interrupts the free flow from this room to the living- bay proper and its cozy fireplace corner. A large glass and metal door opens onto a garden patio.
The master suite on the upper floor has blonde bleached mahogany wainscots and furniture, aluminum glass for indirect overbed lighting, radio and hand library built into bed shelving. This extends into the dressing compartment with mirror faced partitions and swing mirror, revolving hat racks, etc. The Marlite wainscoted, rubberfloored and mirrored master bath connects with both the bedroom and dressing room.
The second upstairs bath, adjoining the child's and nurse's room, is similarly finished, but of smaller size.
The kitchen and pantry form a continuous unit from delivery hall to diningbay and extend into a maid's dining nook.
Of modern Mediterranean type, the nine-room home pictured above is especially applicable to Southern California climatic conditions.
As a professional man's home, it was designed to permit privacy for study and professional contact without interfering with the family life or social entertainment.
Note particularly the treatment of the reception hall-front entrance door, vestibule closet door from the garage, door from the front toilet and doors to living and dining rooms all open from this hall. All doors into the reception hall are mahogany, and the rest of the wall surface is panelled in mahogany, which makes a unique, finished, coherent room with easy accessibility to all other parts of the house.
Simplicity, conveniency and efficiency, beauty and dignity, all are attained to a remarkable degree in this dwelling. The exterior is stucco and wood siding, the roof of fireproof clay shingle. Interior woodwork is mahogany and pine, and the interior finish is plaster and wood panelling. Rockwood insulation is used. A Mission water heater does the job as far as abundant hot water is concerned, and a new Bendix washer makes laundry labor easy.
Patterned from the moderne, this house was designed for a corner lot to take advantage of a magnificent view from the living room. Direct connection from kitchen to patio makes outdoor dining simple, while a kitchen nook takes care of the hurried breakfast or late snack. A heavy drape provides privacy when the dining room is used as such, but leaves it an intergral part of the living room at other times.
Here is a custom-built house which combines de luxe living with the beauties and freedom of a country estate. Among problems the architect was called upon to solve to comply with the owner's demands were: That all major rooms open on the gardens; that a sleeping porch and dressing room supplant one bedroom, and that a solarium serve as connecting link between the two gardens.
The finish is as unique as the design. Outside walls are redwood siding painted sage green, and the roof cedar shingles painted black. The interior floors are masonite in 2-ft. squares; the walls flush 1x10 redwood boards; the ceilings insulite, the joints covered with redwood battens; all materials in natural colors.
