Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1916 — THE WAY TO PLAN YOUR HOME [ARTICLE]

THE WAY TO PLAN YOUR HOME

Each Room Should Have Favorable Exposure—Here’s How to Make Things Comfortable. No more important question confronts the homebuilder than the exposure of the rooms in his prospective home, for no matter how charming a house may be nor how convenient its interior arrangement, it cannot be entirely successful unless each room has a favorable exposure. A living room having windows on its east and west side may capture both the morning and afternoon sun, and if, in addition, it opens out on a porch facing the south, no more satis--factory arrangement is possible. A porch facing the south makes a pleasant open-air living*room in warm weather and a cheery, glassed-in sun parlor in winter. For the dining room, an easterly exposure is desirable, thus giving one a cheerful amount of sunshine for what is apt to be In many households the most trying meal of the day. The model kitchen will have window’s facing both north and south. This makes for comfort in summer and admits.ihe late afternoon sun, which considerably lengthens the hours of daylight. South and west for the chambers is the correct exposure, with windows facing both ways, if possible.