NEW THING IN HOUSES

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 272, 4 May 1917, Page 2 (Supplement)

NEW THING IN HOUSES

REMARKABLE BUNGALOW DISAPPEARING ROOMS

When distinctive qualities ei character and promote comfort, a usual residence fosters interest, is the way with a small brick bun at Evanston, Illinois, a hou6e of f ing walls and disappearing rooms has amnzed all wno have exam'n It is a tiny, sun-flooded "doll's h with light walls, white woodwork attractive, simple hangings '"Popular Mechanics.") Its outside dimensions, not incl protuberances, are about 27 by 2c Yet it is a five-roomed house, wit ing-rooin, approximately 13 i>y 2. in size; two bed-chambers, abou by 141 feet, respectively; a d room, 10 by 141 feet; and a kit 71 by 10; feet; as well as a toiletsmall na'.!, oi.it very roomy closet a kitchen e tryway which accc dates a refrigerator. Swinging doors are the secret this. The little house is really d into a living-room and kitchen, only a trifle more time and enerf required in unfolding a fully furi bedchamber, or a duiing-room, th tends the opening or closing of a The north walls of the living-n which are separated by a doorway ing into a bmall reception hall hung on hinges and supported by ball-!>earing rollers. Firmly att to the wall in the west half o room, its legs reaching to within a inch of the floor, is a library tab] the other partition is a writing Concealed behind the former wall drover. ciiffonier, and s machine. When this wall is swung to form a l>edroom. it fite the b< opening extending from the hall way to the fireplace, and decreas< length of the living-room to ab( feet. A bed. to the foot of wl U'lic-h is attahed, is then draw from the opposite wall. A door* one corner gives access to and fro other rooms.

The other —the east —end of tb ing room is converted into a room l>v a similar operation. Whc wall in that half of the room is o hack and fastened in place beneai other beam, extending parallel wil first-mentioned one, an attractive in china closet is disclosed, and 1 dining-room provided. Obvious such times the west end of the room Incomes the living-room.