The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-05-10
When Building a
Home Plan to Get
Best Use of Lot
eY ELEANOR JEWET1

point Enicn uWuyh hhoulu ne
considered IN building q home. but
point which TOO often Is not coas!d-
cred. is that OF the location of the
house on the lot Given small lot,
II Nigh he thought off hand that you
could not go far wrong no matter
where you placed the houae-and
probably II would not be until TOO
late that you discovered how wrong
You could go
: The locatlon OF the house on the
lot decides almost automatically
what you can do with the rest of the
lot, where You can have garden.
If you can have q garden. where you
can have shrubs or . lawn. or where
you, because OF your thoughtlessness
must have nothing except waste
space.
Probably there will be no disagree
ment with he statement tha when
possible the living portion of the
house, garden and lawn areas. should
be to the south, southeast and
southwest. while the kitchen and ser.
vice portion of The house should be
towards the north.
One of the clearest expostions Of
how this may be managed Is found
in Flaming the--Home Grounds"
the second booklet of the Landscape
Garden series, from the Garden Press
Davenport la. to which reference
has been made before. 1t goes
something ike this
"It has seemed to the writer" Mr..
i. w. Ramsey B s., that mistakes
are made less often, by the home
owners, in tile selection of suitable
location for the house than any other
phase Of home development When
It comes to locating the house on
tie lot there seems to be an intui-
tion which instinetively draws one
to the most acceptable site 1t is
equally true that often when the
opportunity of doing something ex-
tremely fine presents itself the OPP
portunity is seldom seized.
"The greatest mistake on the part
Of the home owner seems to be not
SO much in locating the house prop
erly, but rather in planning the house
with reference to the site, so that
the two will bear proper relation to
each other; thus affording a congru-
ent and efficient arrangement. The
location of the house upon the pro-
perty is Of fundamental importance,
for when the house is located the
various areas about the house are
automatically determined. AS it is,
the arrangement of the house, as
well as its location that determines
these areas, it is equally and funda-
mental important to consider the out
side arrangement and views in plan
ming the disposal inside the rooms"
If there are attractive views to
be secured from your lot, try to plan
the location of the house and the
arrangement of its interior so as to
get the greatest amount of pleasure
possible from those views Windows
naturally follow the line of the build
ing or the style of architecture; win
dows may beautify house to an
extraordinary extent or may take
from it great deal of its charm. Be
careful CT widows, their number and
Kind.
While it is true that a rise in grade
from the street to the house is con
sidered desirable, il is common fall
lacy to assume that house should
never be located below the level of
the street This is Mr.. Ramsey's
authority. Some of the most attrac-
tive places have been developed in
just such cases of building on lots
lower than the street level.
Terraces are always good, or. us
ually good in an approach to house
located on rising ground A short
flight of steps from the pavement
and then narrow path running to
the house are often more charming
than long flight Of steps. With
steps different effects may be secur.
ed by the use of oddly shaped stone,
flat slabs, bricks or even cobble