HERE is a house that the fun-loving family will take to its heart. The wide-open spaces of the king-sized front room—a combination living-dining room and den — are the answer to a party-giver's prayer. Except for the coat closet, there is not even a suggestion of a partition to get in the way when you are entertaining a crowd. You will especially appreciate this feature if you are active in the affairs of a church or club to which you frequently open your home.

Closets in the hall take care of bedding and out-of-season clothing, while there is storage space in the bathroom for linen and laundry. In addition to the usual fixtures, the bathroom has a convenient built-in lavatory and dressing table with a large mirror above. The kitchen has a step-saving arrangement of the work space and a breakfast area at one end.

A handy utility room is connected with the kitchen by a breezeway, which provides a covered passage to the car port.

Besides providing ample space for entertaining and everyday living, this plan offers almost unlimited possibilities for originality in interior decoration.

The hall adjacent to the living area insures privacy in the bedrooms and provides access to the bathroom, kitchen and breakfast room. The bedrooms have plenty of closet space, and their doors and windows are arranged to allow cross ventilation.

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source: The Progressive Farmer – Distinctive Southern Homes | 1950

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THERE are many conveniences in this attractive house. It is compact without being crowded, and the rooms are arranged with consideration for today’s casual scheme of living. There is a large living-dining room that lends itself to entertaining either a small group or a sizable crowd. The kitchen is at the front of the house, handily midway between the front door and the entry from the garage. There is a good-sized utility room with space for laundry equipment and a large storage closet. Both the service entrance and the garage open into this room.

The two bedrooms have double closets with sliding doors; there is a coat closet, a hall closet for miscellaneous storage, two linen closets in the bathroom and, in the garage, an unusually large closet for tools and garden equipment.

In addition to the dining room, there is a breakfast area in the kitchen. Hall space is kept to a minimum; there is just enough to give privacy to the bedrooms and bath and to keep the other rooms free of traffic. To provide cross-ventilation, the living room has three exposures and both bedrooms have double exposures. There is a central heating unit, but a fireplace in the living room provides the additional cheery warmth of a wood fire.

The front entrance is sheltered and features a large picture window and a built-in plant box. Vertical siding on the garage provides an interesting contrast to the brick walls of the house.

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source: The Progressive Farmer – Distinctive Southern Homes | 1950

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THE exterior of this friendly two-bedroom home offers a pleasant contrast in building materials — brick veneer on the bedroom wing, which extends toward the front of the lot, vertical wood siding on the long front porch, and wood shingles on the attached garage.

The outstanding feature of the floor plan is the provision for cross-ventilation in every room (the bedrooms have three exposures), making the house delightfully cool during the summer months. And with this large amount of carefully arranged window space, the house is bright and cheerful the year round.

The efficient and highly livable floor plan incorporates many features unusual in a two-bedroom house. Note especially the convenient entry with a coat closet nearby, the large breakfast room (separated from the kitchen only by a serving counter) and the utility room.

The spacious living-dining room is at the back of the house, with windows overlooking the garden. The bedroom wing at the front is completely separated from the rest of the house by a hall which contains three closets and space for the central heating unit. The bathroom is located convenient to the bedrooms and has the popular built-in lavatory-dressing table.

When you want to go from the attached two-car garage to the front door, the porch provides a protected passageway to the entry. But when you’re bringing home the groceries, you can step from the garage onto the covered back porch and thence into the kitchen.

The garage has two handy closets for tools and garden equipment, and between them there is a built-in workbench. A wide window above the bench provides plenty of light for working.

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source: The Progressive Farmer – Distinctive Southern Homes | 1950

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 HERE is a plan with unusually good separation of living, working and sleeping areas. An L-shaped hall and banks of closets give the bedrooms privacy and insulate them from the sound of activities in the rest of the house. Another wall of closets keeps kitchen noises from reaching the living room.

Other attractive features of the plan are the well-protected entrance and the fireplace which provides a center of interest for the livingroom. The living-dining area gets ample light and ventilation from five windows; those in the living room are floor length. Two exposures in each bedroom give cross-ventilation. The central hall carries traffic from the bedrooms to the bath and kitchen and eliminates the necessity of crossing other rooms.

This house is generously provided with storage space. The master bedroom, for example, has two large closets with sliding doors, and there are two hall storage closets, a sizable pantry and a linen closet.

The garage opens to the rear of the lot — an excellent feature, for it adds to the apparent size of the house, and there are never any gaping garage doors to spoil the effect of the house from the street. The two windows in the garage can be curtained to give it the appearance of another room.

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source: The Progressive Farmer – Distinctive Southern Homes | 1950

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THERE’S no wasted space in this compact but uncrowded house. In its 1,255 square feet you will find a spacious living-dining room, an entry with a coat closet, an efficient corridor-type kitchen with a breakfast area, two good-sized bedrooms with large sliding-door closets, a convenient utility room and plenty of storage facilities. Little space is given over to the hallway — just enough to insure privacy for the bedrooms and bath.

The center of interest of the friendly living room is a fireplace flanked by bookcases. A large picture window in the living area and four windows in the dining area make the room bright and cheerful. The bedrooms are also light and well ventilated, with two exposures in the front room and three in the master bedroom.

The kitchen has the desirable double sink, a handy work space between the range and refrigerator, and a breakfast area with windows overlooking the garden. The kitchen opens into a utility room which has space for laundry equipment and water heater; the utility room in turn opens into the car port, which has a closet for storing tools and garden equipment. Two large hall closets provide for general storage and the central heating unit. The bath has the lavatory set in a built-in dressing table, and there is a good-sized linen closet and a tub that can be curtained or enclosed for a shower. The exterior of the house is of brick veneer, to which shutters add a touch of contrasting color, and it features a large built-in plant box.

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source: The Progressive Farmer – Distinctive Southern Homes | 1950

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THERE'S a lot of talk about traffic planning in our cities, but all too often it's a neglected problem in our homes. Everyone has seen the horrible examples — houses in which you have to cross the living room to get from the bedroom to the kitchen, or where the dining room has to serve as a passageway between the front door and the back.

The plan shown here is a model of good traffic control in a twobedroom house. A T-shaped hall keeps the traffic where it belongs and gives the rooms more privacy than is often found in much larger houses. Another big-house feature is an entry large enough to permit receiving several guests at a time without crowding someone into a corner.

A particularly handsome feature of the living room is the fireplace with flanking windows, which forms an effective center of interest. This room extends the entire depth of the house, and the back wall is a floor-to-ceiling expanse of glass which makes your garden appear to be part of the room. The absence of any division between the living and dining areas makes the house seem larger.

The compact kitchen is laid out in the popular U shape and is separated from the dining area only by a serving counter. There is an adjoining utility room for laundry equipment.

The bathroom has a roomy linen closet and that last word in convenience — a built-in dressing table with the lavatory set into it.

Both bedrooms are large and have plenty of wall space for good furniture arrangement, plus more-than-ample window areas.

An attractive feature of the exterior of the house is the 19x7-foot terrace in front. The house is faced with brick, with wood siding in the gables; the wall by the terrace is wood paneled.

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source: The Progressive Farmer – Distinctive Southern Homes | 1950

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