Behind this engaging facade is an innovation so sensible that it may well set a trend. This is really two dwellings in one, for that multi-purpose front room and bath (called "office and library" on our plan) is a suite you can enter from the outside. Turn the laundry into a kitchenette, move the basement stairs, and it's an independent apartment. Rent it, and this house helps finance itself. But regardless of revenue, a house like this could mean a better life to many people who never dreamed of building a two-unit home. Do you live with aging parents or with young married children or are you apt to? Does a grown child need spiritual elbow room or do you need it? Would home be more peaceful if your sons could keep their noise to them-selves? Does a member of the family want seclusion for creative activity? In all these cases, a large room and bath away from the rest of the house is your answer. It's also a perfect office for a professional who needs quarters his business callers can visit without disrupting his home. (Don't overlook the fact that the laundry could become a fine laboratory, treatment room, or darkroom.)
With its board-and-batten exterior and its beautifully detailed interior rich in built-ins, this would be a gracious home even without its special talents Living areas, including the study, occupy 1,857 square feet, while porches, garage, and workshop take another 86o feet. The brick entry hall separates the cross-ventilated bedrooms from the living quarters. The generous living room has a whole wall of glass overlooking the rear garden. Other specials include good closets, a convenient laundry, and two brick fireplaces. This house was custom-designed to fit one man's way of life when lecturer Edward McFaul needed an office in his home. But architect Bertram A. Weber's solution was so inviting, and so adaptable. that we could see its many possibilities that's why we're offering detailed blueprints from which you can build a house like this one.
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