Modern Home No. 173

This house design is also known as the "Princeville". It has a total square footage (not including the basement) of about 1350. Not very large by today's standards, but I suppose it was large enough for a family of 5 or 6, back in the 1910's, and this was a house you could actually buy in kit form.

In these views I experimented with altering the sun angle, and color. I wanted to achieve a fall-like look. Everything looks pretty good, except my rear view is totally in shadow. Well, there isn't that much of interest from that angle, anyway.

Also note that there are relatively few images of this house. I decided, after obtaining images of the upstairs bath, bedrooms, and the stairway up from the basement (showing the ground-level side door from the inside), that these images didn't really show anything interesting, so I did not include them here.

The Front

The Rear

Some things worth noting:

• The living and dining rooms are the largest rooms (once again) in this house.
• Note the funky stair landing, complete with seats. It's visible in the living room images as well as the front image, above. The ceiling of this "room" is quite short (about 7 feet), but I suppose if you're short, anyway ...
• The plan wasn't clear how the living and dining were separated, so I put in some short walls, columns and some stone pieces to create a separation.
• Note how small the kitchen is. I kept this one quite simple, and not cluttered. I only have one wood stove object, so that's what I include.

On the second floor (below), you might want to note the following:

• The bedrooms aren't that small. Narrow, maybe, but decent. Only the back bedroom is on the small size, really.
• Closets, on the other hand, are dismal. I do know that in the age before electric lights, closets were difficult to light, so they tended to be both small (and dark). I think this design has some elements left over from an earlier age.
• There is one bath, and it's upstairs. At least this design had a bathroom!
• I checked the design, and the bath and hall were specified where I have them. I would have moved the bathroom door to the south end of the wall so the bedroom could have had a little more space.

 

This image is also of the front, but from the other side. Note the bay window in the dining room, at the back right.

Here is the living room and part of the dining room from the vicinity of the front door.

This shows the living room and the hall landing. Yes, this is how this must have looked, based on everything in the geometry lining up. Note the seats along the stairway. The stairs down from the kitchen are under this stairway.

This is a better view of the hall landing.

Here we have the dining room, looking toward the kitchen. I don't know if the wainscoting is period-accurate, but I thought the dining room needed something besides a simple chair rail.

From in front of the hutch (in the image above), this looks toward the living room, and shows the bay window. I'm not sure if the bay was shorter than the rest of the room, but I made it that way for interest.

Here is the kitchen, looking toward the door to the basement stairs. I added some cabinets on the wall. Forgive me, the wall seemed too empty without them.

Here we are at the top of the stairs (from the basement), looking toward the dining room. That's the pantry door that's open. The door on the left leads to the back porch.