| You have made the decision to build your own house | | | | needed. |
| and save a fortune. Thats great! | | | | If your favorite indoor sport is to read the |
| Here are some tips to help you plan building your | | | | newspaper, you do not need a very large room. You |
| own house. | | | | need even less space in which to read a magazine or |
| Don't build your house that small. | | | | book. |
| There is a tendency, after a person has had to put | | | | A real bibliophile, however, needs a lot of shelves in |
| up with crowded quarters for a long time, that when | | | | which to keep his voluminous library. If you like to |
| an opportunity comes to expand, instead of a | | | | entertain with large parties, you will need a large |
| reasonable and gradual expansion, something like an | | | | beautiful living room. |
| explosion occurs. We want to go all out for a bigger | | | | In this country every young couple wants a house |
| and better house, with expansive room, space for | | | | that is exclusively its own. |
| everything. | | | | In many places of the world, a family is likely to |
| Remember that every square foot costs money and | | | | include what we would call several families, including |
| has to be kept up. | | | | grandparents and several married children and their |
| That snug, cozy, warm feeling that comes over one | | | | offspring. |
| when he is seated with his family around his own | | | | With a house for only two people, perhaps we can |
| brightly glowing fireplace may disappear if a house | | | | get along with a moderate amount of space. |
| gets too large, particularly if it isn't paid for. | | | | It is a mistake to build a house with only one |
| House Should Fit Family | | | | bedroom, even for a couple without children who |
| The number and size of rooms needed in a house | | | | seldom have overnight guests, as such a house is |
| depend largely on the size of the family and the | | | | hard to finance and is often difficult to sell. Select a |
| manner in which they are accustomed to living. In | | | | lot where all the houses are approximately in the |
| some parts of the world, a room 8' square is | | | | price class as the house that you want. |
| considered adequate for most purposes, and two or | | | | Sometimes it is all right to build a little below your |
| three such rooms make a complete livable house. | | | | neighborhood if you are sure to make the house |
| Much depends on one's style of living and what the | | | | especially attractive in appearance. |
| neighbors have is sometimes a consideration. | | | | Where to Get Ideas |
| Avoid cutting up a house into a large number of tiny | | | | Where should a person look for ideas? Visit houses |
| cubicles for specific purposes. Remember every wall | | | | under construction and subdivisions near you. |
| costs money and will often be in the way. | | | | These houses will indicate the popular trends in your |
| Moreover, our ideas of suitable activities are | | | | area. |
| continually taking on new forms as we and the | | | | Many magazines are full of house plans and ideas for |
| children grow older. We can't keep moving the | | | | beautifying the home. The trouble with many of |
| partitions to keep up with our changing activities. | | | | them is that they show only what is different or |
| It is a mistake to think that every different type of | | | | spectacular, and do not spend much time on the |
| activity requires a separate and distinct room of its | | | | ordinary house for everyday living. |
| own. | | | | There is more news value in the unusual, the bizarre, |
| A given area can often serve efficiently for several | | | | the different, and even the ridiculous, than in the |
| different purposes at various times of the day and | | | | things that you can live with right along. |
| of the year. | | | | If you decide to get a mortgage always use a |
| The types of activity that are interesting to a family | | | | mortgage calculator to save yourself money. |
| will determine to a large extent the size of the room | | | | |