Here's a good one-story ranch house built by a young contractor, Bruce Tebbe, as his own home. It is a straightforward approach to small-scale living, but what puts this house in a class of its own is the planning and replanning that kept the cost down without sacrificing good taste or comfortable living. It's a pliant plan and the patio has a future that will fit your own, as we'll tell you later on. As it stands, you get two bedrooms and bath, a living room and separate dining room, a kitchen with a breakfast nook, a full-length front porch, and an attractive patio with a fireplace that can be used as an outdoor living room. The house contains 12,500 cubic feet, a lot of space for $10,500. This is the amount the house would have cost a client and is figured without the discounts that are often the good fortune of a man in the building business, such as owner-contractor Tebbe. The extra-curricular features in the house are numerous, but roughly, they are a wood-paneled living-room fireplace wall, solid brass hardware, good wallpapers of documentary design, a bay window 2 1/2 ft. deep that was planned to enlarge a small dining room, cross-ventilation in all rooms, floor furnace with thermostat control, bedroom wardrobes with built-in drawer space, a pullman bathroom lavatory with drawer and cupboard space below, a man-sized, tile-lined shower with adjustable shower head and glass door, an electric bath wall heater, excellent plumbing fixtures, well-designed chrome hardware. Also a bay window fitted with a seat and with a view into the garden to enlarge one bedroom, deep linen storage, and a coat closet off the bedroom hall, door between bedroom hall and living room for privacy and to shut off noise from the rest of the house, an excellent water heater (Mission - 30 gallon), generous kitchen cupboard and drawer space, garbage disposer, corner kitchen windows in space reserved for breakfast table, an abundance of strategically placed electric outlets in every room, an outdoor living room with fire-place that is built at the rear of the house into the U that is formed by he jutting bedroom and service wings. This room has been designed and built with such proper beam strength and roof pitch that at some future time the room may be extended six to eight feet and enclosed.
All of these particular features are the result of pre-planning but, too, the house has been given a booster shot of cost-free know-how. High bedroom windows are placed on the side next to neighbors, wall space was planned to accommodate specific furniture, kitchen cupboard shelves were built at the correct height for storing glasses, stacked plates, or lower dishes without reckless loss of space between shelves. Drawers are partitioned for silverware and kitchen tools, and a built-in counter for receiving food from the refrigerator is located on the side of the refrigerator next to the door handle. Conveniently locating a built-in counter at the right side of the refrigerator, planning wall space to fit furniture has nothing to do with the cost of a house, but they are features worth their weight in gold. Good taste also costs nothing. A wood-paneled fireplace wall can have a mellow driftwood stain and soft -wax finish at no greater expense than if it had been finished on the orange-fed side with a high gloss. It now has only two bedrooms, but if the outdoor living room is enclosed, the picture will change. The new room can become a sitting-dining room, in which case the present dining room can be turned into either a bedroom or into a den with a couch doubling as the proverbial emergency guest bed. If not that, the new room can be used as a den-sitting room with two built-in couches that will offer even more comfortable sleeping accommodations. This little house has many of the interesting features of a larger house, but is half the work!
It's a small room, but bay window with garden view contradicts room measurements. Room and bay ceiling painted the blue that travels as an accent throughout house. Pink striped wallpaper. Pink chintz lounge chair, bed canopy, and dust ruffle of barred dimity
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