THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 20, 1009.
NEWS OF THE BUSY HOME BUILDERS
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The Overcoated House
is the Coming Fashion
By this simple and inexpensive
process an old frame house may
be made to look like a new stone
dwelling and last much longer.
It will be more comfortable in
winter with less fuel and much
cooler in summer.
Apply Expanded Metal Lath
and plaster with Cement Mortar,
under directions, sent free to any
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Horthwcstern Expanded Metal Co.
84 Van Buren Street, Chicago
The Difference
between borrowing money on a "straight mortgage"
and the "monthly payment plan" is vital. If you bor
row money on a "straight mortgage" due in five or
ten years you worry every day in the yenr, for every
day brings you nearer to the date upon which tho niort
gage will be due. '
If you borrow money from ns on our monthly pay
ment plan every day is a day of joy, f6r as each month
goes by your loan becomes smaller and in a few years
the home is your own.
Which is the best plant ...
Omaha Loan & Building Assn.
S. E. Cor. 16th and Dodge Streets.
Geo. W. Loomla, Ire. G. M. NaUinger, Secj. and Trean.
W. Ii. Adair, Ass't. Sec'f.
Assets. S2.500.000.00. Reserve, $00,000.00.
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Solving the Home Building Problem
Arthur O. Clansan, Arcbltact.
Note For several Sundays answers to
questions of general Interest on home
building will be given.
Question Is a cottage practical fur a
small homeT
Answer Sentiment and reason both point
to the cottage as the ideal American home.
Life In a cottage, lived In a simple way,
does not mean an aimless life, lived In al
most rustic prlmttlveness. Simplicity does
rot mean barrenness, and an Ideal cottage
home need not lack any of the conven
iences and comforts that are an insepara
ble part of our modern life. "Simplicity
is the terminal point of all progress," says
Rttekln, to which Charles Wagner adds,
1 "One need not necessarily be rich to give
grace ind charm to his habitation."
The simplest home to plan, the simplest
home to design and build, the simplest to
decorate, furnish and live in, Is a cottage.
Still there are very few complete, well ar
ranged and well designed oottuge homes.
This deplorable fact Is due mainly to two
reasons: First, 'the cottage, because of Its
popularity, has drifted Into the cold calcu
lations of the business world. A groat
many cottages are built to sell. They are
always good sellers. Reduced to a purely
. business proposition, the cottage suffers
muoh. It lacks the sentiment which pro
vides the many little details and con
veniences that are necessary to make It
homelike. The second reason Is a lack of
. knowledge on the part of those who build
for themselves, of the proper arrangement
. of the rooms and Inability to adapt to
their Interior arrangement an exterior de
sign that will be in harmony and at
tractive. Question Would a tower look well on a
colonial house?
Answer Don't build a tower on a house
unless It be In the English style. Towers
and colonial architecture do not mis well.
The tower Is practically a thing of the
pasLThe object of the tower Is to obtain
an outlook from the top of It, but when
your neighbor's trees cut off all the out
look. It becomes an anomaly. Towers are
expensive to build, hard to heat and never
look well except In the Tudor Gothic style."
This does not exclude the use of angle or
compass bays.
' Question What Is your opinion of vines
on a house?
Answer Trailing vines can be used ap-
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cement construction, articles on what
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proprlately on several parts of the house,
but should never be allowed to completely
cover It. Vines should enhance, not hide,
the architectural beauty wrought by man.
Question How can I be sure to select a
good lot? Is a lot on the outskirts of the
city as desirable as one nearer the busi
ness center?
Answer This must be chosen according
to the taste, social station and pocket
book of tho owner. If one prefers the
suburbs, or even the country, It Is a sim
ple matter to ftnd a vacant piece of land
suitable for all requirements, but If the
convenience of a central city location over
balances the freedom and fresh air of the
country place the requirements are not. so
easily fulfilled. The city lot is apt to be
small, often too small to allow the arch
itect much latitude In the way of plans.
Then, too, besides the high taxes and fire
risk, there Is always the possibility of hav
ing undesirable neighbors In close prox
imity to the home.
Question What Is the popular style of
roof for a cottage? Is a gambrel roof prac
tical? Why . Is It called gambrel?
Answer The gambrel roof has been the
most popular style for a small cottage for
several generations. The first examples of
this style are found principally In New
York and Pennsylvania, It having been
very popular with tho early Dutch settlers
of those states. Its close association with
the early Dutch settlers has given It the
somewhat misleading name of "Dutch
Colonial," many of the details having been
borrowed from the colonial styles of New
England. The principal characteristic of
the gambrel roof la the broken gable, the
roof on the lower part of the gables being
at a much steeper pitch than the upper
part. It derives Its name, "gambrel," from
tho fact that the point made at the In
terscctlon of tho two slants to the roof
resembles the gambrel on a horBe's hind
leg.
The roof on a cottaire of this style has
considerable to do with the design. Many
a house has been given an awkward ap
pcarance through an unsymmetrleal pro
portion of Its gambrel gables. There Is a
certain relation of the upper slant of a
gambrel gable to the lower slant. The
proportion is not governed by any set rule.
but depends upon the designer's Judgment
and eye for 1 proportions. Former win
dows of various styles are used to a large
extent In the Jesign of a gambrel roofed
house and If properly proportioned to the
house and adjoining gables they add con
slderably to tho plcturesqueness of It.
Question Is a duplex house a paying In
vestment? Do they make desirable homes?
Does It cost as much to build a duplex as
two separate houses? How should a duplex
be plani'td?
Answer A duplex house, of properly
planned. Is the combination of all the com
forts, conveniences and pleasures of
modern flat and a private home. The plan
arrangement in a duplex house Is identic
ally that of a bungalow. That being one
reason w hy they are so popular and, there
fore, prove such profitable Investments
from a purely business standpoint, for
have we not, In reality, two bungalows,
one above the other, but dividing the ex
pense of the roof, foundation, heating plant
and lot between them. In other words,
duplex house will bring as much rent as
two separate bungalows, on separate lots,
having separate heating plants. The In
come on the money invested is therefore
greater than would be received from the
rent of separate houses.
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