This lovely 1957 house from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was designed by architect Donald Honn for his family. Stone veneer forms one unit, but stops at window openings which were treated as individual panels of glass and painted exterior plywood. The formal entrance introduces active, primary colors, used sparingly and in small areas. On large surfaces - such as the garage and family-room wing - a softer shade, light sage green, tends to enlarge the area, giving depth to surfaces like vertical car siding.
Five Star Home 2705 started with the space a family needs now with ideas that give a house value in living and in your investment when it comes time to sell. Building materials you've seen used alone many times before are used here in combination. Each exterior section is carefully unified to avoid great clashing pattern. Stone veneer forms one unit, but stops at window openings which the architect treated as individual panels of glass and painted exterior plywood. Streetside privacy is excellent.
Plan is L-shaped, giving outdoor and indoor living areas uncommon privacy and shelter. View like this emphasizes wide separation of activity and quiet areas. Window wall of sleeping wing is at lower end of L (at right); living room, kitchen, and family areas are across the top.
Zoning, one of the soundest advances in good planning in recent years, adds to this home's livability. Every house has three basic areas : sleeping, living, working. Too often, that's where zoning stops. Here, zoning is developed well beyond this casual separation. Still, it isn't a large house : 1,514 square feet without garage. When you study the plan you'll recognize five distinct zones carefully worked out within active and quiet sides of the house entrance, living room, sleeping area, working-dining area, and service-play area.
Living room has privacy inside and out. Its fixed and sliding glass walls are shielded outside by projecting wing of bedrooms. And it's a dead-end room, leading nowhere. Storage wall (left) provides useful partition from kitchen. Lighting is recessed in ceiling pockets between joists.
Today's version of formal entrance is colorful, invinting. Path of concrete squares has protection of garage and bedroom wings en route to front door. Open gridwork makes the sky your ceiling, yet has feeling of enclosure. Yellow entrance door is balanced by flush panel painted turquoise. Glass forms a "T". Then, glass and wood are framed as a unit.
Dining room faces a full wall of glass with view of handsomely landscaped rear yard. Exterior siding comes indoors to avoid abrupt change of materials. Also, idea gives effect of uninterrupted space. Fluorescent lighting is diffused in a simple metal enclosure. Brackets fasten unit to a ceiling beam. Floor here and in traffic and work areas is terrazzo.
ARCHITECT: Donald Honn
AREA: 1,514 square feet
DIMENSIONS: 69x59 feet
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