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Show Five-Room Bungalow Provides Home With Individuality and Comfort h . 1 " v 5 t- x- V" J A " ' ' r jTrrri prchMLr D J ? ; m mFv IP3! Floor Plan. Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all problems pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as editor, author and manufacturer, man-ufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on the subject. Address Ad-dress all inquiries to William A. Radford, Rad-ford, No. 1S27 Prairie avenue, Chicago, 111., and only inclose two-cent stamp for reply. By WILLIAM A. RADFORD One of the greatest assets that a house can possess is individuality, and when this Individuality expresses the character of the owner It achieves Its greatest worth. Not many years ago most houses were monotonous and dreary, they lacked Individuality to such an extent that a street of small houses was highly unattractive. Even in the larger residences there was little true individuality. Attempts at variety were made, but these were usually in the nature of elaborate ornamental or-namental work, and the result was far from beautiful. But this has all changed In recent years. Today even the small-home owner may have a house which Is Individual In-dividual and at the same time beautiful beauti-ful with the beauty of good design, the first essential of true and lasting beauty. In the home shown here we find an unusually good example of individuality, individual-ity, and the floor plan incorporates a number of rather novel, but at the same time, good features. The approach ap-proach is along a beautifully shaded walk at one side of the lot and the steps at the corner of the house lead to a porch structure which extends along the entire side of the house. The forward part of this Is simply a front porch of pergola style while the rear part is inclosed to form a sun porch, opening off the dining room. The pergola per-gola roof Is carried on back over the sun porch to mate tne structure a complete com-plete unit. Just back of the sun porch Is the back porch, which is separate and set back slightly from the line. The house is built of stucco, but Is well adapted to being carried out in other materials, shingles or eiabbonrd. The roof is shingled. There is a raised belt about the outer walls, Just at the floor line, which makes a pleasfag break in the expanse of the walls. Casement windows are used to good effect, and the flower boxes beneath them add greatly to the charm of this home. The low overhanging eaves have been well treated to give a good roof line and even the downspouts have been handled in a way to serve more than the purpose of mefe utility. Large Living Room. The front entrance leads Into one corner of the large living room, which is 25 by 15 feet, with a large fireplace at one end. Almost the entire en-tire front side of this room Is In windows win-dows which make it a light and cheerful cheer-ful place such as Is desirable for the principal room of the home. Other doors lead into the sun porch and the dining room. The dining room Is placed In afl Interesting Inter-esting manner practically in the center of tlie building. It actually has no outside windows, though there are windows win-dows and a door at one side giving entrance to the Inclosed sun porch. At the opposite side Is a built-in buffet and a door Into a hall which gives access to the two bedrooms and the bathroom. bath-room. Another room opens directly Into the kitchen, which Is a small, convenient con-venient room, well-equipped with built-in built-in cases and arranged in a manner to reduce the kitchen work to a minimum. mini-mum. The two bedrooms are In two corners cor-ners of the house with the bath conveniently con-veniently placed between them. Both are good-sized rooms with ample space to accommodate the usual bedroom bed-room furniture, and each Is provided with a good closet. There Is also a hall closet for the storage of linen, and a stairway in the hall leads to the basement, where are provisions for heating plant, coal room, laundry and so on. There is also a pantry on the main door which affords plenty of storage space conveniently off of the kitchen. |