Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1926, Page 19

REAL ESTATE. IDEAL HOME DESIGNS APPROVED BY COMMITTEE OF ARCHITECTS (Continued from Fifteenth Page.) same time to secure an effect that would be pleasing to look at and ex- ress two individual houses though uflt together under one roof. For this the English cottage type of treat- ment will be used. This type has the advantages of requiring relatively less expensive mill work, giving a more plcturesque sky line and being more adaptable to good offset in considering treatment of a number of such houses along a city block In an outlying sec tion. Sufficient space and ventilation will be secured above the second flool cefling to protect the second floor rooms from excessive heat in the warm Summer months.” C. W & J. Wilbur Smith in telling plan for the row houses or xinia avenue at Queen st i1, Small sdys: “This group co ' elght houses in one rov careful consideration of cor studles in different styl thought best colonlal design * lonfal of vari front, over-hang! notonous nial inhe notable for terials, noble pro ail. ‘The II's Homes, of the houses slate roofs of them to ze | the zoning law. wpacity for o &t out or this p effect in houses porches instead ed, one | ng also + living s | cupolas abos a larger r “Considerat » the fact (Corner - [to be erected by Walter 5700-5720 8th St. that in many Instances the house- wife will do all the work in lhsflrl houses, and as costs necessarily hold{ down the size, some of the plans allow for a large well ordered kitchen anc a dining alcove only large enough to hold a small buffet, a gateleg tablc and four or five chairs. Other plans | contain a larger dining room and smaller kitchen. In either case the kitchen cpens on the back porch, Owing to the grade conditions of the property, it was necessary to put the g: ge on the rear of the lot leaving a large cellar for laundry and storage space. “The second floor contains the al three bedrooms with llfll")ze closets, bath and sleeping porch.” Marietta Park Homes. In regard to the community houses Dunigan 2odfer, plan Gilbert L. the in Marietta Park. hitect, in discussing rtes: The probler Washington are ¢ rely solved to the s: general public, but ¢ us advance dired sportation in siless not yet en ction of the tdence of the The extension ing it possible into densely huiit-up | iich are st center of the uent noise and uburb: a a subdivision. | roughly speaking, about mid th and Takoma | tion has been so subdivided that only detached, semi-detached and com unity houses can be erected unde: Mr. Dunigan’s prop erty is so subdivided { houses will be of the s and community group sty | particular work that he will do unde | the auspices of The Star's demonstra tion will be the erection of a commun ity _or ‘threedn-a-row’ house. “The problem of the to demonstrate that n in small houses as th historical style can be taken into con- | sideration and these homes given real | architectural interest. We have all | seen this type of home-bullding pas through successive stages of develop- ment and fmprovement during the last three vears, starting with the old round hay window type with pointed | o much in evidence in | the old Bloomingdale section, passing { through tha so-called colonial - front mi-detached | such N.W. Madison) [porch stake to the highly sclentific , and the ) ttect was | | e, the matter of | THE EVENING RSTAR, “WASHINGTON, D. ¢, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 192. ————— box plan type of house now in vogue. The architects have little, if any, quar- rel with the plan of these box houses. The builders have developed an eco- nomical plan which makes it possible to get a maximum amount of space well lighted and ventilated within a minimum cost. “Therein lies the big problem. “The desirability of front porches is indeed a debatable question, and while the architects are undoubtedly right when they raise the point that porches of this nature make it diffi- cult to treat a small house in an at- tractive manner, stfll a compromise must be effected that will zive the home owner, where he desires it, this additional space without detracting from the appearance of the building as a whole. In many cases the so- lution doubtless will lie in construct- ing an open terrace, with provision for wide awnings for use in sunny weather, this having the great ad- that on dark days the awning raised, permitting unlimited ht in the living room. However, this manner of solving the problem fs | only appli s | “AS to t certain re n styles. , it is felt that of interior detail ted and some additional as well as a greater set space, Introduced to rect a good plan. the greatest difficulties of the box plan is in connection with the rear porch. It has been the custom in the past to build open wooden porches in the rear, providing ad ditlonal space adfacent to the dining room and a space for sleeping in the | rear of the bedroon nfortunately, | these porches have been made to e | lend across the entire house, thereb: blocking off a great deal of the light | and all of the direct sunlight. Many owners of houses go still further in creating a bad condition when they glass in the entire porch, thereby cut- ting off all the direct outside ventila- tion from both the dining room and the bedrooms in the rear. I am en- deavoring to meet this problem by diminishing the width of the porches 5o that, whether or mot the porches bedrooms may have at least one win- dow outside of the lines of the porch, <0 that whether or not the porches VALUE REAY ESTATRE, T are glazed, each room will still get an adequate amount of direct sunlight and ventilation. “It was proposed at the outset that this particular eroup of houses should be designed in an Itallan style. The manner in wheth the architect is seek- ing to incorporate this idea in his design without making the house more complicated or costly to bufld will be made the subject of further dis- cussion in a later articl Cleveland Park s Residence OPEN TODAY 3607 34th St. $l 1 ,50 Liberal TERMS WM. S. PHILLIPS 1432 K N.W. 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