A complete year-round residence, the modestly priced Weekender offers roomy comfort. Its compact, U-shaped kitchen is next to the bath. A small, glass-fronted dining area is left of a storage unit that faces the front door. A fire place in the living room and space to sleep up to eight completes the plan. The design is suitable as a guest house or rental unit. Building time and material costs are kept low with the use of fir plywood construction throughout. The modular system affords the budget-minded home craftsman the opportunity to buy and build piecemeal. Later the units can be trucked to the site for assembly.
The Loch Haven is the "ranch rambler" of the DFPA cabin series. Designed by Architects Rogers, Taliaferro and Lamb, it has a luxurious Arabian Nights touch in its sunken living room and screened sleeping wing. On the other hand, its construction is strictly the down to earth American variety... featuring versatile, durable, practical panels of fir plywood throughout. The Loch Haven is perfect for a sheltered lakeside or riverbank setting, with every room facing the view and screen windows admitting cooling breezes. The sunken 12-foot by 12-foot living room is completely separated from the rest of the cabin by a huge sun deck. Three separate small bunk-rooms provide sleeping quarters for up to 6 people if bunks are stacked two deep. At the end of the line is a complete compact bathroom featuring a striking ceramic tile finished shower-tub combination. The entire complex is tied together with a four foot walkway that also provides extra sunning deck plus a private outdoor lanai for each bunk room. This is another cabin design that makes it easy for you to develop your vacation paradise on a budget. Start with the living room only, and add bedrooms and in-door plumbing as you can afford.
David George, Dallas architect, designed this wide open cabin for the wide-open vistas of Texas, but it's just as adaptable and attractive on a New England seaside lot or in the mountains of the West. Tailored into its small (448 sq. ft.) floor plan, you'll find a complete galley type kitchen; complete bath with a full-size shower; a 32 square foot closet and wardrobe; plus smart-looking built-in sofa beds that will sleep four in real comfort. There's space provided in a snug corner for a prefabricated fireplace that will furnish all the "central heating" you'll ever need. And, there's also a covered sun deck with 128 square feet of area solely for sunning and lounging... mighty pleasant on warm summer evenings. Here again, fir plywood construction helps to keep costs down style high. Exterior fir plywood serves as both inner and outer wall presenting a durable paintable surface to the elements on one side; a warm friendly atmosphere inside. Plywood's large consistent panel size makes it possible to take full advantage of the economies of modular construction . . . also presents possibilities for expansion into a full-time home later.
Neat and trim as the Cape Cod style it was patterned after, this vacation home by architect Laurence Higgins is without unnecessary frills yet it incorporates a surprising amount of space for just plain-down-to-earth relaxation. The living room is 15'- 4" by 10'- 4" with room on the first floor for a 7' by 10" bedroom, a compact kitchenette and a complete bath with shower. In the second floor sleeping loft, which is reached by an out-of-the-way ladder, almost any number of children can be accommodated. The loft may be divided into more bedrooms, or left as an open sleeping dormitory. The Cape Cottage is made comfortable for year around living with an economical out-of-the-way central floor furnace. Storage poses no problem in the Cape Cottage either. In addition to the large guest closet inside the front door, there's a wardrobe size bedroom closet and a big 5-foot-wide fully-enclosed outdoor storage shelter conveniently located just outside the back door. The Cape Cottage, as is usual with most of the cabins illustrated in this booklet, can be completed in gradual stages as the budget permits and as space is needed.
Here's another basic but striking A-frame cabin by Nagle and Associates, that's designed for the "blue snow" country. Built-up 2" x 12" beams rest on big concrete piers which are sunk into the ground 3 feet below grade. Of course, the steep pitched roof of Exterior fir plywood will not only shed the snow readily, but will resist mountain blizzards. To relieve the spartan A-frame lines, an extra pair of A-frames have been extended onto the spacious sun deck to form a shelter from the sun in both summer and winter. Inside, there's a wealth of wide-open wonderful space for taking your ease. Your eating pleasure is amply provided for in the compact 6' by 8' kitchen. A complete bath including shower fits into a few square feet. The living room contains 240 square feet with a cozy corner fireplace that's perfect for warming up next to after a hard day on the ski slopes. A 144 square-foot sleeping balcony overlooks the living room and is made readily accessible with a ship-type stairway. Fir plywood construction throughout the Ranger makes a tighter, stronger, longer-lasting vacation cabin.
Here are most of the comforts of your city home in a 960 sq. ft. economy cabin by architect Henrik Bull. Designed for two-stage develop-ment, it can be built for around $3,200 in the first unpainted rustically furnished stage. This includes wiring, plumbing and carpenter's labor but does not include the lot or septic tank installation. Architect Bull achieves the construction economies and livability of conventional box-like structures but eliminates the boxy appearance with two rectangular units one for living and one for sleeping connected by a 16 x 20 foot sun deck sheltered with a "convertible" canvas covered gable. The bedroom wing sleeps a family of five comfortably and a large weekend crowd can be accommodated by using sleeping bags and turning the deck and liv-ing area into emergency bedrooms. When you decide to turn this into a full time home, it's a simple matter to add insulation, wall paneling and central heating.
