A triumph in small-scale comfort
Architect, John P. Ley, B.Arch (ARAIA, ARIBA)
It’s surprising how comfortable, streamlined and spacious a 6 ½ – square house can be. As a small nucleus house which you can add to later, or even as a holiday home which can be let for half the year to pay its way, this plan has all the essentials for your first home– a shower room which could have a bath too if you wanted one, a bed-sitting room and a guest bedroom area, a medium-sized kitchen and laundry.
The kitchen area has a refrigerator, range and sink with a free-standing table between kitchen and living room. Folding doors, or plantation shutters divide (the) living room from (the) guest bedroom. In the areas where there’s plenty of traffic – kitchen, bathroom, laundry, parts of living room, and guest bedroom (which might become a children’s room) flooring is of composition tiles. The rest of the living room is carpeted. (This also helps, psychologically, to divide (the) rest area from (the) utility area.)
Externally, walls are sheeted with vertical and horizontal boarding. The vertical boarding is stained and the horizontal boarding painted. The skillion roof is of asbestos cement or malthoid on battens.
As shown in the sketches, there are fixed, horizontal timber louvres above the windows, which are controlled from the inside by sliding panels at (the) back of (the) louvres.
Looking from the patio to the house. The timber louvres above the awning-type windows are controlled from the inside by sliding panels at the back of the louvres. Cement blocks pave (the) terrace.
Descriptive Outline
Walls: Vertical and horizontal boarding.
Roof: Corr. asb. cement or malthoid on battens.
Area: 6 ½ squares.
Colour Suggestion
Walls: Natural timber for horizontal boarding – lime yellow for vertical boarding.
Roof: Natural.
Trim: Deep gold.
Door: Deep golden yellow.
Eaves: Slate blue.
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