The lines of this smart, and particularly comfortable A-frame house are readily adaptable to your family's vacation needs at the seaside, mountain lake or country suburb. The wrap-around wooden deck offers the most wonderful outdoor living area for good weather in any location and indoor living is equally smart and spacious. The main level includes a big living room with a cozy fireplace, a dining area and a compact kitchen that takes care of handling a family or a great big holiday party with equal ease. The bathroom is back-to-back with the kitchen, both practical and economical, and the two bedrooms are at the rear of the house. Four closets in one room and two others in the second make for better-than-average storage. The stairway arrangement is terrific. Stairway up to the balcony that overlooks the living room is at the right of the fireplace. This reaches the big balcony bedroom where three large closets and a second bathroom make the area a fine master bedroom suite. A folding screen can be used to shut off the room from the living quarters below, but left open, this bedroom can enjoy the window vistas at the front of the house across the upper part of the living room, Big windows also look out to the back. The stairway at the left of the fireplace takes you down to the garage (or boat storage) area as well as to the recreation room and rear storage space. A fireplace in the recreation room is equally cheery and sliding glass doors that look out to the lake or mountains enhance this room. There's a heater alcove next to the fireplace here and that means that you can turn the house into a year-round resort for weekends or build it as a ski-lodge or other winter home. It's a wonderful "second" house for city dwellers or a cozy, efficient year 'round home for a fun-loving family.

We like the unusual flair of this raised ranch plan and we know that you will too. You will also appreciate the possibilities for enjoyable living which the floor plan offers. A really striking front door opens on a well light- ed foyer which leads to the two levels of the house. On the lower level there is a two car garage, a laundry and heater room, a storage closet and best of all, a spacious playroom with a fireplace, four big windows and ad- jacent lavatory. Sliding glass doors open from the playroom onto a terrace which has stairs going up to a first floor balcony. This balcony is reached by sliding glass doors; these open on the dining room and are close enough to the kitchen to make the balcony a convenient spot for serving meals when the weather is nice. The spacious living room has three handsome windows at the front and a decorative railing overlooking the foyer. There is a dinette corner in the kitchen for breakfast or snacks and all cupboards and appliances have been put in an "L" design for greater convenience when preparing meals or cleaning up after them. There is a center hall which runs across the house on the main floor and which has a coat closet and a linen closet. The family bath, which has a vanity sink and a full tub, is handily located to all main floor areas, Bedroom 3 has a double window at the front of the house and a large closet; bedroom 2 has a large closet, too, plus cross-ventilation. In the master bedroom there is an extra large window at the rear, a walk-in closet, and a private bath with an en- closed shower. The unusual exterior is strikingly simple but extremely interesting.

Overall Dimensions: 48' x 26'.

Square Feet: 1,165.

Architect: Lester Cohen.