| The more use you can make of a given space, | | | | playing Indians and cowboys, or some other |
| the more efficient your planning. The entrance hall | | | | equally exciting and din-producing game! A house |
| can often double as the telephone booth. | | | | needs a quiet spot, a den, a library, a family |
| Multiple use of space is an evidence of good | | | | room, or some other place where some |
| planning. | | | | members of the family can escape from the rest |
| Consider the human body: if a separate organ | | | | of the gang at times. |
| were provided for each function, we wouldn't be | | | | A quiet retreat from the din of living. |
| able to carry them all around with us. | | | | There is usually the need for more than one area |
| Think of the mouth and its many uses. | | | | of living: the children want to look at the TV; Dad |
| Aside from its principal uses as a base for lipstick | | | | wants to read his paper; Mother wants to |
| and for kissing, it is used for talking, for sucking | | | | telephone; the older brother has to study and do |
| and blowing, for emergency breathing, including | | | | his homework for high school; friends drop in for |
| snoring, for biting off thread, for taking in food | | | | a short call; someone comes to see Dad on some |
| and grinding it up preparatory to swallowing it, for | | | | kind of business. These things must all go on |
| holding pins in sewing and nails in shingling, for | | | | simultaneously. |
| forming a smile, a grin, or a grimace, for laughing, | | | | They can't very well all be in the same room at |
| clucking and whistling, and too rarely to say a kind | | | | the same time. Open planning is fine, but it has its |
| word. | | | | limitations. Some families have hobbies that they |
| The Living Room | | | | work on at home, whereas others are content to |
| When you pass from the hall into the living room, | | | | read the newspaper, turn on the television, and |
| what kind of room do you like to be in? | | | | drop off to sleep in an easy chair. |
| There are almost as many types of ideas as to | | | | If a quiet corner can be found for a writing desk |
| the size, shape, colors, and uses of the living | | | | or if a well-lighted alcove with an easy chair and a |
| room as there are people. Some have the idea | | | | bookcase can be managed, the livability of the |
| that a living room is similar to the old-fashioned | | | | house will be greatly enhanced. |
| parlor that was shut up all week and was opened | | | | The living room must not be the principal hallway |
| only on Sunday, was usually musty, and generally | | | | through the house, although careless planners |
| unused and uncomfortable. | | | | often make it just that. Every living room should |
| Others go to the other extreme and think of the | | | | have a point of interest aside from the television |
| living room as a place where the children study, | | | | set: a fireplace, a picture window, a mural, an |
| where people lounge and read the paper or the | | | | interesting grouping of elegant furniture, a music |
| latest magazine. A living room is to be lived in, isn't | | | | center, or something that reflects the tastes, |
| it? | | | | personality, or interests of the owner. |
| Oh, to get away from this bedlam! How often | | | | It is a good idea to use a mortgage calculator if |
| have you thought that when the children get to | | | | you decide to purchase land or a property. |