Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-17
LIVING ROOM FEATURE
Of BUNGALOW HOME
Largely Responsible for Popularity
of Type, According
to Writer.

People have decided in America that
the home most of us want is the
bungalow. Eighty per cent of the
residences now building are some form
of the beloved American bungalow, the
home of the most modest and humble
neWly-weds, as well as of the gilded
bride and groom, who choose poetry
and simplicity on income whose
sta tement requires four or five ciphers
to put on paper: the home of the small
est family or the home of many chill
dren, says a writer in the Milwaukee
Sentinel. The only home known that
can grow with the family, starting
with but the heart of the home, and
adding room for each little new
conner. 1t is no wonder that the love
of the bungalow has blazed across the
continent from lower California to
New York city in ten years.
The glow of the wide fireplace of the
living rooms of these eloquent littse
home buildings circles the American
continent with a golden girdle,, sym
bolic of the Americans healthy home
love. The day of the chill New Eng
land 'parlor'' is past. Unyielding high
backed chairs no longer stand censor
iously against the walls for no one to
think of sitting in. These best spare
rooms" whose marvelously nodded
white beds were seldom disturbed,
whose only use seemed to be that the
children might have an unknown
region to peer into or tlptoe dar1ngly
across, those parasitic rooms that. like
the "parlor," must always be faultless-
Nv kept, because company" might
come, are Topped off our houses now
and their absurd expense Topped Off our
ledgers. The householder of the
bungalow makes no sacrifices to com
pany,' and therefore guests are al
ways cheered.
No Best Room.
+ The bungalow plans Tor all in the house.
There IS no "best room" The reception
hall and drawing room and sitting room
are syenially opened into one called the
Giving room" And it is fairly named.
No matter now the designer may come
short in other respects. he always ma kes
of the central large room. Ii room whose
welcome and charm cannot be denied, a
livable room. And in this room, the heart
of the home, guests and nome folks as
semble with frank enjoyment OF them
selves and each other. that challenges
compa rison in any of the stately. na1-
occupied, many -servanted houses that
have passed for the best homes IN the
generati tons that are past.
The bungalow is Planned for things
as they are" not things as we would
like to have them II is planned rs the
serva ntless household. or lends Itself most
readily to that prevalent maidless regime.
There should rot be any upstairs in the
blessed bungalow. The cook and the
neither and the hostess can at least DEM
onstrate that no one o her varied func-
tiu,s is any higher than another. She
performs; them all on the same level.
But the bungalow is not only for the
..Doomed Domesticated." Not only Flu
turists in love- are planning bunga-
lows, but the disciples of all modern
ism that is genuine progress, whether
artists or students or whatnot,
whether patching alone or patching in
clubs-nowhere is life so livable,
whether alone or together, as in
bungalow.
Building Cost Moderate.
The one thing is that the browning
feature of the bungalows popularity is
it's moderate cost, bringing it within reach
of the most humble builders for future.
Yet, it is happily adaptable to the most
artistic and creative charm. A man can
make his house express himself if he
chooses a bungalow. His house need not
look like every other one in the row.
In point of fact, some of the most grace
full creations of art in the architecture
D
low lines Those with appreciation of the
beauty of form and structural unity need
not suppose that all bungalows are. as
an old darby nanny described them,
when they first sprang up in her little
southern town, Them little shirt
WASTED houses. where people jess
bungle about inside all together in the
same big sittin' ROOM Her idea of the
..shirtWaisted houses was due to the
fad in her town that month, of de-
signing all the new bungalows with
"A dark painted lower story. and light
painted upstairs, for which originality
no one could claim artistic beauty, in
deed and which did give an amusing
shirt waist straight front effect to the
most tree sheltered vine clad honey
moon bungalow.
Places Have Individuality.
That one may express ones own
wishes and needs without reference 10
what those bores. "other people, may
think, is true of no home SO much as
of the bungalow, in the planning of which
one is expected to do his own designing
and scheme his own dearest schemes
OF course, the architects stand ready
at the elbows of the widest schemes.
for no ones elbows must be allowed to
stick out too far. But on all sides is
t.,le nf oil