Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1920 — SPLENDID DESIGN FOR FARM HOME [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SPLENDID DESIGN FOR FARM HOME

Five-Room Bungalow That Has Strong Appeal. MAKES THE HOUSEWORK EASY Will Accommodate Good-Sized Family and Is Moat Conveniently Arranged —Sleeping Porch Attrac* tlve Feature. Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building work on the farm, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Addresr all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 1827 Prairie avenue, Chicago, 111., and only Inclose two-cent stamp for reply. There now is Tittle difference in the homes designed for farms from those that are erected in cities. The comforts and conveniences that are found In town are embodied in the homes that are being erected on the farm, with the additional features that the work of the rural housewife requires. To promote home building and to provide plans for houses that can be erected at a minimum cost, the United States department of agriculture recently designed a number of farm homes. All of these houses were small, tut were planned so that the family would have a modern home. The accompanying design follows out this idea. Here is a five-room bouse that will accommodate a goodS’zed family. It really is a four-room square house, with the kitchen added

at the back and a sleeping porch put on the side where' the bedrooms are located. A screened porch adjoining the kitchen also is a feature. The dimensions of the main part of the house are 36 by 28 feet, while the kitchen and porch projection Is 20 feet 6 Inches by 18 feet. As will be scon by the accompanying Illustration this home has an attractive exterior. The gables in the roof of the porch and the house, the method of applying the siding and the sleeping porch projection, all combine to make this an excellent design. Four rooms, living and dining rooms and two bedrooms are contained In the main portion of the house. The floor plan shows how they are arranged. The living room is large, 17 feet 6 inches by 12 feet, and is connected with the dining room by double doors. The dining room is practically square, being 13 feet 6 Inches by 14 feet 6 inches. A 4-foot passageway runs alongside the dining room and opening off it are two bedrooms and the bathroom. The front bedroom is 12 by 14 feet 6 inches, and the rear bedroom is 11 by 14 feet 6 inches. One of the exceptional features of ’this design is the sleeping porch, which is connected with both the bedrooms. The dimensions of the porch are 9 feet 6 Inches by 18 feet 6 Inches, large enough to accommodate two full-sized beds. It may be partitioned If desired.

The kitchen is arranged to accommodate the needs of the farm. Adjoining it is a pantry on one side and a

cooking room on the other, while the large screened porch that opens off it provides a comfortable and pleasant place for the many duties that can be performed out of doors in the summer. A second entrance leads from the porch to the passageway, so that all the rooms in the house may be leached without going through the kitchen.

The bathroom Is so located that there is little expense required to connect It with the water system from outdoors, and from the kitchen range where the water is heated. Running water now is found on most farms, and for this reason the design has been made so that it can be carried into the house at little additional cost. What will appeal to the housewife iu this design is the convenient arrangement of the rooms all on the one lloor. There Is no running up and down stairs required in doing the work, neither are there any unnecessary steps to be taken in getting from one room to another. The cost of this house easily can be ascertained by consulting the local contractors and material dealer. Material and labor costs vary in different localities, but no matter where the farmer lives he will find that this house is comparatively Inexpensive to build, while, at the same time, it will make a comfortable, convenient and attractive home. Much has been written and more has been said about the advantages of building modern homes on the farms. When a farm home is to be built, however, there is no good reason why it should not embody the features that n ake for comfort and ease in doing the work required to keep it up. When these advantages are put into a design for a farm home, it would seem foolish to build anything else. Building a home is something that roost farmers do only once in a lifetime. Before building, therefore, it is wise to make a careful study of home designs. Consideration should be given to the size and number of rooms required; but greater thought should be expended on making the room arrangement compact and labor-saving. In this way the new home will be satisfactory to everyone who is going to live in it. Now is an excellent time to build. Trices of both material and labor will not be less for a number of years to come. If in this generation. Just so long as foodstuffs cost as much as they

Io now, labor, which is more than 80 per cent of the cost of building, will require living wages. Those w r ages will »me down only when the price of food ip reduced, a condition that no .producer wants to see.