THIS HONEYMOON COTTAGE is a sweetheart house. Designed to give the most practical home with least damage to family budget. Caters to the little woman’s love of the pretty and different. Large and unusual window arrangements. Flower boxes. Wide roof overhang protects entrance balanced by built-up masonry planting box under broad living room window. Planned for economical construction, minimum maintenance, easy housekeeping and permanent enjoyment.

 

LUCKY THE BRIDE who calls this home. With or without basement, each plan has high merits. Living room with dining alcove, a combination of good things of life: fireplace, broad multiple front window graced by built-up flower box, dining space with oversized window will open on future breezeway with barbecue. Smartly-planned kitchen with laundry adjoining in basementless plan, or laundry can be placed in basement. Three bedrooms. Bath off hall. Generous storage. Exterior: cheerful simplicity and quiet dignity.

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source: 53 house plans for 1953 by Rudolph A. Matern

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TRUE TO THE BEST in architectural planning. Every room off center hall. Living room-dining room in open-planned L, extend 24 feet through house from broad front window to beautiful corner windows facing garden. Unusually large kitchen with windowed breakfast alcove. Three bedrooms, one with private lavatory. Complete bath opens from main hall. Unexpected features: telephone niche, extra large coat closet in foyer, book shelves in living room, work bench and storage area in two-car garage.

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source: 53 house plans for 1953 by Rudolph A. Matern

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ECONOMY MADE ATTRACTIVE. A smartly-balanced low cottage. Three bedrooms. Seven closets. Bath with vanity. Living room and dining room sweep through house in open planning. Rear vestibule serves kitchen, porch, garage and basement. Porch secluded for outdoor dining. Not one inch of wasted space in the house. Almost square kitchen accommodates five for breakfast. Interest and variety achieved in exterior design by different types of windows. Roof overhang shelters inviting entrance.

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source: 53 house plans for 1953 by Rudolph A. Matern

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LONG AND RAMBLING in appearance. Actually squared to perfection. The covered porch almost 50 feet long, runs back more than 20 feet as a breezeway. Provides protected passage to garage from front door or kitchen. Ideal center hall plan makes every room a dead-end room. No through traffic. Three bedrooms, two baths, five closets plus spacious walk-in closet grouped and secluded at rear of house. Coat closet off of front vestibule.

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source: 53 house plans for 1953 by Rudolph A. Matern

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