Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 18, 1909, Page 35

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Sunderiand Roofing and Supply Co. 1006-8-10 Douglas Street Phones: Doug. 871; A 1225 207 Discount Sale 20% EVERY DAY UNTIL MAY 1ST ON Lightning Fixtures Homebuilders should immediately take ad- vantage of this big special offer of a 20% discount on all purchases made before May 1. It's a big opportunity—make your selection, compare our with that charged clse- where and then we will chop off just 20%. We Store Free Till price You don’t have to take the fixtures as soon as they are bought. We will keep them here for you until you are ready to have them hung. Just buy before May 1st and save 20%. An iron-clad guarantee as to workmanship and material goes with everything we sell and you may have your money back if not satistied. Chicago Flyer Train No. 14, will leave Omaha 6:08 p. m. [now leaves 6:28 p. m.], will arrive Chicago 8:38 a. . [now arrives 8:58 a.m.], mak- ing connection with early morn- ing 24-hour trains to New York. This train will be equipped with Library-buffet and Pull- man Standard Sleepers—berth lighted—chair car and dining car. Rocky Mountain Limited Train No. 7, will leave Omaha 11:12 p. m. [now leaves at 11:17 p. m.], arrival at Colorado un- changed, »y T Rock Island L4 A\ 14th and FARNAM Tickets 209 OFF| EVERY- THING. It is seldom that troubles of any man are of general interest, since everyone has troubles of their own, no business or pro- fession being free from them, but since the | rehearsing of a few of the troubles which the average architect has to daily contend with would be of educational value to the prospective home builder, the writer desires to take the readers into confidence and inform them frankly where they often | make serious errors and how they might profit to a considerable extent by avolding them. If T were to go back thirteen years to the | beginning of my professional expe J and decide over again, with my present knowledge, my chosen vocation would be the same, and 1 do not think that I would | change it in any respect. An architect's | life 1s spent making beautiful things for happy people. At no time in the family history is there more contentment, enthus- lasm and joy (han when the time has come when they are able to bulld a cozy little home of thelr own. The first thought of every young wedded couple is to have a | home of their own If eircumstances do | not permit their having one at the start, its acquirement becomes a foremost thought in their minds during the time | which elapses before they are about to gratify the cherished desire. It is, there- fore, always a happy couple, whether old | young, that first greets the architect when they have arrived at the time when his services are required, but before the | |house can be bullt complete, there s much hard work to be done and much thinking on the part of both the architect | and his client. The greatest problem that i | the architect has to contend with Is to keep the client's ideas within his means. | After months, maybe years of thinking and | dreaming on the subject, the average home builder, especially the wife, has formed a crude idea of the home which they want | that is made up of all the beautiful things | they have seen, and it is a sad blow when | the architect tells them that for two good | reasons they must content themselv:s with but a very few of them, the one being that of money which they have to spend would not pay for all t | dows, orlels, nooks, fire place windows, etc., which they have mired and hoped to have. The other rea |18 that you cannot get everything In one {'house, not even a large house of which the cost was not a paint up for consideration This would not be a harmonious design of u practical plan if it included all af the | beautiful and admired things which one | | might see on their nelghbors' homes or in | home bullding publications. { For example: A beautiful entrance, taken | from a home of English design, with its | hand carved Gothlc wood work, wou'd not at all be appropriate on & home designed in the colonial style, with tall portico and stately columns on the front. Both of | these features look very admirable when | appropriately asscciated, but placed to- | | gether it would be inharmonlous, would | be criticised by even the home builder him- | welf after he had seen them 80 assoclated |and would look ridiculous to a designer |8t this is what a highly educated busi- | ness man almost insisted that the writer |d0 when designing a handsome home last | summer. My well meaning client insisted that every feature looked handscme and | | his architect could not consistently deny | T oz« i ‘00 BE SBILIAIT. Troubles of An Architect Arthur C. Clsusen, Architect. THE BEE’S PLAN OFFER —_—— Through a speclal arrangement with Mr. Clausen ‘he Omaha Bee is able to ‘offer its readers the complete plans, detalls and specifications of the home {llustrated on this page with- out change for $0. Mr. Clausen is the author of a well fllustrated book, THE ART, BOIENCE AND SENTI- MENT OF HOME BUILD- NG, 46 Chapters—200 Illustrations. A beautiful and practical book con- talning complete information on the planning und designing of every kind of home. It contains extensive articies on that popular st of home, The American Bungalow, also the Two- Story Bungalow, = BUNGALOWS BUILT FOR TWO, Homes of DI tinctive Character, Planning the Cot- tage, the Country Home, the Farm Home, Homes for Specia! Places, The Duplex House, etc. There are ex- tensive lllustrated articles on _en- trances, windows, stairways, fire- places, porches, kitchens, pantries, cement construction, articles on what not to do In building a home, the Let- ting of Contracts, the Practical Side of Home Building, the Sentiment of Home Building, etc.. ete. Price, post pald to readers of The Bee, §1. Send all_orders to Arthur C. Ciausen, architect. Studio, 1013 Lumber Ex- || change, Minneapolls, Minn | it, since he was the designer of both homes which were being admired, and it was only after considerable explanution | that this man was finally educated up to where he realized the two prominent fea- tures, so widely different in architectural style, did not look well on the same hruse. It home bullders would only accept the architect's advice In theso matters in the same way that they would accept the final decisions of their attorney or family physi- clan, a greater progress would be made in preparing a set of plans and mors desir- able results would he arrived at more quickly, but the situation fs a little dif- ferent, the physiclan and attcrney havimg the advantage over the architect in the fact that their clients are not confronted with the evidence of their profession on every hand and are not able to form erroneous ideas of how to procees on their advice entirely. eatisfactory homes ever designed by the wrlier was for a banker in a small town, | who had at the start a very anclent idea | of how a modern home should appear. | This particuler mar had never had an| opportunily to see the beautiful homes of our modern cit'es and had fcrmed s ide from the best work in his town, whi were the resu'ts of very crude ana| commonplace creations of the village con- tractor. After looking over the beautiful | location where this home wss to stand in | getting a general ‘des f this man's re- quirements, the writer being unlimited as| to its cost, prepared preliminary sketches | for a very practical. homellke and beautl- | ful Lome It was so modern, however, so| up-to-date In both style and plan and so| different from the commond homes that this man had been accustomed to seeing, that he did not c:mprehend It at nd much depends | One of the most the | | | 1D. C. SCOTT, D.V.S. (Successor to Dr. H L. Ramacciottl.) ASSISTANT STATE Vmw.l ADVERTISE IN THE OMAHA BEE| BEST IN THE WEST Office and Hospital 2510 Mason Street. Phone—0ffics Maruey 997, Ees. Douglas 3295, Calls Promptly Answered at All Hours, Omaba, Het, 1st—Call and see our remark: panels of fine f Omaha in which our various kin used. You can’t go wrong if you l ARTDTIC BRI How to Choose Face Brick, brick and get our prices. 2nd—Then let us show you hundreds of constructions in Skt A | the owner left the matter entirely In the I the corner of his house, & useless, | fact that he first and wae very much disappointed. The next preliminary sketches were therefore prepared according to his dictation, putting | in a number of the features which he had | pointed out In the village, and a comparison | made of the two, which, together with a little enlightenment on the part of my client as to the proper assoclation of styles and arrangement of modern homes, re- sulted in & unaiimous verdict with the en- re family for the first skotches made, but not until after the architect had gone| to the trouble of taking Rim through some of the beautiful hcmes of our city and! spending considerable time off and on for two months to get him educated up to the | point where he would appreclate what was originally done for him by his architect ia | 8 few hours. This is another example of the time that might have been saved had | hands of his architect recognizing in the first place, his superior judgment in ail | watters pertalning to the bLuilding of | homes. It Is hardly to be expected that, the average person can acquire the knowl- | edge and abllity to appreciate good work from a few weeks of serious study of the| matter, when It takes an architect many | years to acquire the knowledge neceesary | to properly design and plan beautiful | homes. Occastonally an architect will have & client, especially from some small town, who clings to the old idea of a tower on expen- sive, cold and far from ornamental feature, | Also many clients do not obtain the full value of the location of thelr homes through placing the entrance and stair hall in one of the front corners, thereby mak- ing useless for lving purposes one of the most valuable parts of the house. When the lot 1s narrow and the home emall, thig arrangement, of course, becomes necestary, but whenever It Is possible to make the house broad enough to allow for a central entrance, thereby using the two front eor- ners for living rooms and ohtaining the full value of the frcntage on the street, this plan should be adopted. It is not dif- ticult for & good architect to plan a well | arranged and attractive home. It is, how- | ever, very ditficult to get eople to build | them for the average home builder insists | on having certaln things which he seldom likes afterwards and which his architect is compelled td give him, recognising the 1s entitied to anything he | wishes to pay for whether |t meets the | technlcal and artistic ideas of the architect | or not. It is the architect's duty to frankly | inform his clients when they are in error, | but it they do not accept his advice they ' should blame themselves and not the archi- tect afterwards when they find that they bave made o * (ne of the most | serious mistokes whic The average man builds but one home. should; therefore, take the time nece to bulld that home right. When a fi has decded to bulld & home for themse! they are often too Impatient to see the dream of possibly many years realized In | materfal form. About the first question that they ask the architect is how soon they can have the plans. Here s where they make n great mistake. They should, on the contrary, insist on his putting much time in the study and preparation of thelr plans as Is necessary, Instsad of You will decide on a brick the facts. able dlsplay—150 ds of face brick have been do as suggested above. ) Cost of Brick Construction. Many contractors figure brick veneer but little more ex- pensive than frames and much cheaper than all brick. Look at the E. L. Stone residence, at exterior when you have seen all 88th and Pacific. ONDERLAND =+1614 HARNEY ST.& h the average home | | 1| bullder makes is in rushing matters to per him to et them out the earltest possible moment Every home A study every home different others which architect has eéver had anything to do with, An archl tect does not run his fingers through | Putlding Note his hair, give & wild stare Into the alf. | mne champlon Fence company bas moved obtain a spontanesus inspiration and ercate | fts factory from Sixtesnth street to Fif- an entirs housé In his mind as some people | teenth and Jackson are inclined to think. The proper designing | _The fence around Fort Crosk, work en and planning of a home requires careful | Which was begun five monthe ago. Wwos completed last week. The fence 1s 25,00 study and the more time an architect 18| feet around and five fest high. At regular given In which to study the owne re- Intervals are cement posts two fest in quirements the better are the results in | lameter. The fence rovided with every case. An architect | heavy ornamental iron gates, eighteon feot after studying | wide and six_feet high_The work was & plan over a s:cond time in detall, when he Is given the time to do so, will often done by the Champlon Fence company. make changes that will prove of conalder- Wonders of Bormeo. able value to his clients. For example, in | “There s no country in the world more the deslgning of a school house recently, | INVIting to the naturalist than Borneo," the writer. after tamiltariging himself in | Writes Consul Baker from Sandakan. “Here most detafls with Its requirements that |Aare found the fiying squirrels, flying foxes. had been done In the quickly prepared pre- | [IYIng lizarde, flying trogs, and the natives liminary shetches, made & change which |Teport flylng snakes. Among the most !4 not require ten miautes of his time, but | Noted birds ls the little switt Collocalla meant s saving In the cost of the buflding | Mdifica. Their nests are eaten by the Chinese and are regaried as a great luxury of over $00. The proper preparation of | {iAs Buitld thelr nests In limestons your pians means the proper investment of | caves of & glutinous saliva which they pro- your entire building funds. If your rlana | duce from their glands; no sticke or any o00 W o | other foreign substances are used. ore not right, you will not get the fullCojjcoyion of these nests f8 an important value out ef your moncy. You have waited | {{austry with the natives, though they pay Poraibly many years for & home of your [a tax on all they take o market The own. A week or two spent with your archi- | value of those exported from British North | B 1907 was $35.0%4. They are served tect In assembling your ldeas In proper | BOrNeO :‘Yfl’f e Diintes. cobe form will make no great difference in the cjally at weddings '—New York Tribune. TO SECURE A LOAN in the Omaha Loan & Bullding Assoclation, application is made on blanks furnished by us, stating the amount you desire to horrow and describing the property on which you want the loan. courss of & lifetime and will iy mean a greater return for the money in- vested and & home which will be a joy | and pleasure to you as long as you live You may never build but once. so take time to bulld your home right Is nearly all since s trom an Your application 18 congidered and passed upon by our Esamining Board. If the title to the property is good the papers are made out, completed, and the money {s yours. No delay. The property {s yours and you repay the loan in fixed monthly pay- ments. Simply paying rent to yourself. Hundreds of others have paild for their homes in this manner. Why not you? It is successful. Omaha Loan & Building Assn S. E. Cor. 16th and Dodge Streets. Geo. W. Loomis, Pres. G. M. Nattinger, S8ecy. and Treas. W. R. Adair, Ass't. Sec'y. Assets, $2,500,000.00. 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