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Show - YOUR HOME OF TOMORROW If' --'It I I l -3 - K-w vAjV ' ! I 1 i! H h I I M 4 I r ii i3v is'- f"i $ V l Lui L-J U ; I . . j 1 y I I IJ-Ui ; i UTILITIES 6U5S BLOCK i j Jt TJ 'X -JLJ 14x26 P0RCH I- P BR DEN I GUS5 BLOCK- ,xl6 I I. Jill "9X9 - 1 COMFORT and convenience are highlighted in this new home design which combines traditional charm with the most modern ideas of American architecture. Compactly Com-pactly arranged on one floor, it looks much smaller than the seven-room house it actually is. This gleaming white brick home is the dream house of a young war veteran and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. William R. Boston. Mrs. Boston Bos-ton did much of the planning and arranging for it while her husband hus-band was overseas. Now they are comfortably settled in it. Situated in a wooded ravine overlooking Lake Erie near Cleveland, Cleve-land, the Boston's home takes full advantage of its setting. One of the most striking features fea-tures of the home is its bright and cheerful atmosphere. Much of this is achieved through the I architect's skillful use of- glass block. In the living room, for example, the designer specified an llx8-foot interior panel of glass block to partition off the enclosed porch. It serves three purposes: provides pro-vides privacy in both, rooms because be-cause glass block is not transparent trans-parent and is an insulator against noises; permits daylight to filter through to the living room, and reduces the chilling or heating effects ef-fects of the large window expanses. ex-panses. Indirect Lighting Used On one end of the 14x26-foot living room is the guest entrance. Opposite is a sunken fireplace which is flanked by small casern case-rn e n t windows. Space-saving sliding doors lead to the den, the dining room and hall. The hall, which connects living and sleeping quarters, presented a lighting problem which the architect solved with glass block. Long and narrow, the passageway had no direct source of daylight To avoid a dark and dull-looking hall, the designer made the adjacent ad-jacent dining room wall entirely of glass block. This permits light from the room's large bay windows win-dows to go on through to brighten an area that would otherwise be dingy. In keeping with modern practice, the dining room is small but adequate 9x12 feet. Connected with the dining room by a swinging door is the kitchen. Designed almost entirely by Mrs. Boston, it is streamlined and conveniently con-veniently arranged to suit her tastes. In one corner the sink, cupboards, work counter and range are grouped together in an L-shape. Across the room are the refrigerator and a little breakfast break-fast bar. Glass Block in Bath The bathroom, adjoining the master bedroom and opening on the hall, is partially departmentalized. department-alized. The toilet is set in a little alcove behind the shower and is enclosed on one side by a panel of glass block which admits ad-mits light with privacy. The master bedroom in the Boston home is a generous size, 11x14 feet. Casement windows on one side and a large bay window at the end provide cross ventilation ventila-tion and plenty of sunlight. To provide daylight even when all shades are drawn, the builder installed in-stalled a panel of glass block below be-low the casement window in the bay. This arrangement gives floor-level floor-level lighting but provides no heating problem because glasr block is well insulated to reduce heat as well as noise transmission. The spare bedroom is an adequate ad-equate 10x11 feet. Windows on two exposures give it cross ventilation ven-tilation and good daylight from the south nd west. Laundry Near Kitchen Behind the spare room and kitchen is the utility room. Since the Boston home has no basement, base-ment, this room serves as a furnace furn-ace room for the home's gas-fired heating system and as the laundry. laun-dry. Being adjacent to the kitchen, kit-chen, it also provides a convenient conven-ient rear entrance. Considered from every aspect, this home is ideal for a couple or a small family with a medium-sized medium-sized income. It is compact and modern and is designed for use on almost any type of a building lot. Where desired, it could easily be built with a basement, although al-though excavation would add somewhat to its cost. The most startling thing about the Boston home is its age. Although Al-though it looks as new as today's headlines, the home is actually 32 years old. Before being completely complete-ly remodeled it had been a time-worn time-worn summer pottage that had been neglected for years. |