IT IS rather a problem to attain both comfort and individuality in the smaller brick house. Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. Wood, 11039 S. Irving Avenue, have a home filling both of these requirements.
The house has the advantage of a location on a corner lot, so the porch is placed at the side. Careful attention has been given to the location of the shrubbery, only a very moderate amount being used, so as to avoid any tendency to “bury” the house.
A small arched entrance porch, set within the line of the front wall, gives a pleasing touch to the front of the house. Entrance is into a reception hall in the left wall of which is the wide arch leading to the living room. A coat closet is to the right of the entrance door. The fireplace is set in the front wall of the living room, a window on each side. A glass paned door leads out on the screen porch, which is also reached from another door from the dining room.
French doors lead from the living room into the dining room, which occupies the left rear corner of the house. A feature of this plan is that both dining room and kitchen are at the rear, bedrooms occupying the right side of the house.
The kitchen is the “bride’s kitchen,” a cupboard which occupies all of one wall taking the place of the pantry, and everything being arranged to give the greatest possible convenience. The icebox is placed in the enclosed rear entrance porch, so that it may be filled without entering the kitchen, and yet be easily reached. The steps from the rear entry are only about ten feet from the rear door of the garage, which is built on to the rear of the house.
A door from the kitchen leads into the hall, in which a large linen closet is provided. Other doors from this hall open into the reception hall, two bedrooms, bath, stairs to the basement, and to the second floor, in which there is room for two full sized bedrooms and bath, although it is left unfinished.
The basement contains a completely equipped laundry, fruit vault, coal room and furnace. Nine large windows provide an abundance of light and air.
Lighting fixtures are antique gold finish and walnut woodwork and oak floors are used throughout. Tile walls are used in the kitchen and the bath is all tile finish. Paneled walls with tapestry paper are used in the reception, living and dining rooms. All windows are casement type.
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