A question that faces every family building a new home is: How can we have and maintain a handsome living area, when our children want and need a rugged place that's built to take the wear and tear they'll give it when they play?
Five Star Home No. 2111 offers a highly practical answer: Have your house divided- both in its floor plan and in the materials it uses.
As you study the plan and pictures, you'll see that the house is divided into two distinct areas. One area, containing living-dining room and parents' bedroom, is what its architect calls the "grown-up" area. You might call it your "civilized" area-the space where you live with your best pieces of furniture and which you think of, primarily, as the adult side of the house.
Naturally, you don't cut your children off from this part of the house, but you do train them to help keep it clean and presentable. For they have their own play area in the rest of the house, which contains their 26x12-foot bedroom-playroom, plus the kitchen, breakfast nook, entry, and hall. This is the side of the house that can really "take it." Here you have practically indestructible hardwood and cork-tile floors and smooth surfaces to simplify dusting and cleaning.
Housekeeping in the grown-up side, with its wall-to-wall carpeting and investment furnishings, is simplified because the shortest distance between any two rooms is always by way of the central traffic lane. Rooms can stay untracked and clean.
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