BUILDING a bungalow in such fashion as to utilize every square inch of space and at the same time have just the arrangement desired is not an easy problem. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Nieburger solved it during the eight or ten years they were planning their bungalow, which is now a great satisfaction to them at 10718 S. Seeley Ave. While it is compact, it is also roomy; yet its appearance from the street is highly attractive, set, as it is, in spacious grounds, judiciously and artistically laid out.
The bungalow, of artistic design, is built of yellow Escadale brick and contains eight rooms. One enters through a sun parlor into a sun room that has a cement floor and sills. Here Mrs. Nieburger has her lavish fernery.
White oak was used throughout, lending itself nicely to the abundant provision for light from the outside. A feature, also, is the plan of having window seats in abundance, especially over the radiators, thus preventing a great deal of dirt from rising and disfiguring along the walls. The heating plant, by the way, is of the vapor variety, which allows the steam to be turned on part way, without causing that annoying drumming noise.
The living room is directly back of the sun room and is notable for the cheery open fireplace, which is in almost constant use and the built-in cases. These, too, are to be found in the dining room next in the rear, in which Mrs. Nieburger proudly displays much of the chinaware she paints. Most hospitable is the manner in which the rooms open into each other and one goes next into the breakfast room, finished in cream enamel, with its string of windows along the south side. The rear entrance to the house is into this room, while the kitchen is the next room to the north. That room is thus shut off and snug, with its double dish-sink, its roomy cabinets and its ventilator hood over the range, protection being afforded by the fireproof plastering. A butler’s pantry was not required because of the thoughtful manner in which the kitchen was equipped.
There are three bedrooms and a bath, running along the north side of the bungalow, shut off from the rest of the house completely when desired. In the little hall here is a linen closet and clothes chute to the basement, where there is a full equipment for the housewife in the form of laundry machinery, as well as a billiard table which strongly appeals to the high school boy and his friends.
Mr. Nieburger is in the coffee business and has also lately opened an agency for the Chevrolet motor cars at 7742-48 Stony Island Ave.
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