Exhibition House Fully Furnished Is To Be Sold
Described as “a house to stay at home in,” the home built by students of the Architectural Centre; in Wellington was officially opened by the Prime Minister on Saturday. Built of timber on a reinforced concrete slab, it contains 1225 square feet, and will be open for exhibition for a month from today, following which ■it will be sojd by ballot.
The house contains a living-room, kitchen, bathroom, laundry, three bedrooms, and a utility room. Most of the furniture, including bunks in two of the bedrooms, has been built in. The home is intended to demonstrate an ideal in housing and is designed for family privacy. The feature of the house is the brick paved courtyard round which the. house has been built. Here a family would be able to dine in the open sheltered from all winds and in complete privacy. The 4in thick concrete slab 'on which it is built eliminates all problems of underfloor ventilation, draughts, vermin, and ' squeaking floor boards.
The house will be fully furnished when put on exhibition and ultimately sold.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 52, 17 October 1949, Page 5
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185Exhibition House Fully Furnished Is To Be Sold Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 52, 17 October 1949, Page 5
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