1950 | American Home - House #24 | Owner: Charles Ray Olrich, builder and designer: Donald Scholz

 


Quite an eyeful, isn't it? That's what we thought and kept right on thinking after we had studied it inside and out. Very aristocratic, this one. Of course, it's no home for a poor but happy young couple with a flock of youngsters in the blueprint stage but it's certainly made to order for a small family who want luxurious comfort in a few beautifully proportioned rooms. It makes a point of stretching out imposingly on its land. so you could never call it "compact" in fact, it looks even larger than the approximate 2,000 sq. ft. it occupies without its oversize garage. Each activity has its own place here, and if rooms have a double purpose, it's only incidental. An ideal home, we think, for a once-poor young couple after their ship is in and their kids are out. As many of you have told us, Mom and Pop then deserve a house built to please only themselves. So here it is, with blueprints to make it easy for you to start building a beauty just like it.  The exterior concrete masonry over frame construction seems to give off a pinkish glow, and when you open the front door, the house keeps on glowing. A good-sized foyer trimmed with planters is designed primarily to welcome you and take your coat. Beyond it. you see the inviting living room and right out through bay windows into the garden. To the right a bath and two bedrooms, cross-ventilated,. blessed with big closets. and sharing a private lavatory. On the other side of the house, a dining room you can shut off with swinging doors, spacious kitchen. and utility room which holds laundry equipment. A big plus, more useful than the old-fashioned sunporch and cheerier than a basement rumpus room, is the recreation room. Chances are that you'll do most of your relaxing and a heap of your entertaining right here, and use this room for overnight guests as well. It has its own fireplace, a built-in bar, large closet, a washroom of its own and a door to the rear porch. Very typical it is of this house as a whole, for it offers just about everything its owners could want.