Evening star., 1925-07-25

A Garage Attached
To a Lovely Home
A ''Two-Story, Narrow-Lot''
House That Looks Well
and Is Spacious.

1t Is a hard problem to design
small two-story house with the inte-
rior as complete as possible, and make
the walls rise from the required ar
rangement pleasingly and symmetri-
cally. The easiest and least expen-
sive form of construction is the box
type, of course; but to a very expen-
many this form does not satisfy, and
to obtain an interesting silhouette
something must be done to get away
from the box effect.
Now add the further restriction of
a narrow lot, and you have indeed
handed the architect problem. Very
often the fault of a "two-story, mar
row-lot" house is that it looks too tall
and narrow, and, therefore, out Of pro-
portion.
We believe that this house cannot
be condemned for any of these rea-
sons. 1t is not a box" looking desigrs
nor does 1t look petty or cramped or
as IL the rooms were awkwardly ar
ranged inside. It's whole appearance
is pleasantly generous
The garage is another hard problem
for the architect when it is to be built
as an integral part of the house. The
wide doors are often unSightly and
proclaim a workshop effect. In this
case, to make the wide doors less con-
spicuous, we have indented them
slightly and covered the face of the
building with trellis, so that vines may
fringe the doorway and break the
severe outline.
This arrangement also makes an in
teresting porch for the kitchen. The
steps up to the kitchen porch start
from the driveway, which makes ii
very handy when parcels are to be
removed from the car to the house.
By such an arrangement also the
upper bedrooms gain Few feet in
size and the house gains in beauty.
The main entrance to the house is
through a lovely doorway and hall
leading to the living room. The stairs
ascend to the second floor from this
hall and can be made a most interest
ing feature of the house. The space
under the stairs as they turn is used
for coat closet.
You will note that where the plan
has suggested a group Of windows on
the inner side Of the sunroom the
owner of this home we have photo
graphed chose to place French door,
thus making an entrance from the
drive directly to the sunroom.
The dining room, on the opposite
side Of the hall, is distinctly separate
from the living room, yet within con-
venient reach. The kitchen is amply
large for a house of this size and the
arrangement Of all kitchen details has
been so carefully thought out that a
| larger kitchen would be entirely un-
| necessary and but waste space.
The lovely garden (both vegetable
| and flower garden) one would expect
with a house of this type stretches
some distance to the rear, just where
| milady or the maid may enjoy it to
| her hearts content while dishes are
being done or food is being prepared
on the kitchen porch.
The flower garden has been placed
directly back of the dining room, to
afford as much loveliness for that
room as possible. And as if trying
| to do their part to make this room the
pleasantest in the house. trees have
spread their branches across the roof
here, bringing coolness and shade al
ways to this room as, we'll as to the
bedroom above. AS they turn and
sway in the breeze the effect of light