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