The Iowa Homemaker Vol.3, No.3-4

Volume 3 Article 1 Number 3 The Iowa Homemaker vol.3, no.3-4 1923 The oI wa Homemaker vol.3, no.3-4 Alan Holmes Kimball Iowa State College Alda Wilson Iowa State College John E. Brindley Iowa State College Pearl Apland Iowa State College Juanita J. Beard Iowa State College See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker Part of the Home Economics Commons Recommended Citation Kimball, Alan Holmes; Wilson, Alda; Brindley, John E.; Apland, Pearl; Beard, Juanita J.; Cessna, Orange H.; Bailey, N. Beth; Sheldon, Mary; Wilson, Ruth Elaine; Ingersoll, Blanche; Murray, Eleanor; and Lamb, Helen G. (1923) "The oI wa Homemaker vol.3, no.3-4," The Iowa Homemaker: Vol. 3 : No. 3 , Article 1. Available at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker/vol3/iss3/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Publications at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oI wa Homemaker by an authorized editor of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The oI wa Homemaker vol.3, no.3-4 Authors Alan Holmes Kimball, Alda Wilson, John E. Brindley, Pearl Apland, Juanita J. Beard, Orange H. Cessna, N. Beth Bailey, Mary Sheldon, Ruth Elaine Wilson, Blanche Ingersoll, Eleanor Murray, and Helen G. Lamb This article is available in The oI wa Homemaker: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker/vol3/iss3/1 - l jj ~c !3£1. 1tiE lOWft HOM[Met')EB 10W6 STt)TE COLLLGE . DO * I VOL. III JUNE-JULY, 1923 Nos. 3 a.nd 4 + 1 - II - 11 - II - MM - 11 - II - IM - II - II - YI - II - 11 - III - 11 - IM - IM - II - ~I - MM - NI - II - MI - ~H - iii - N~-IIN - IIII - IIII - IIN - i - ~I - MI - III - I~ - II - II ~ II - II - II- U- II - II - II -+ i i i i i i i ! i i . MY HOME Let it be somewhere out of tov.'n l\Iy home, with elms that rise from turf :U'lanked by rough forests marching down 'l'o creamy surf. - If this is asking paradise, 'l'hen clover fie lds, a brook with cress, 'Villows and maples, firs for spice, Bnt nothing less. Still, orchards charm me; orchards bloom As well ·as yield a fruit, and trees Planted to bear leave ample room For sun and breeze. Once a deep mountain lake half filled With islands dark but sweet with pine. Seemed the one spot on earth to build This home of mine. ' Vhich ever way I turn, I lose A dozen sites as beautiful; Against the one I all but choose, The oth~rs pull . .So to decide just where shall stand My home of timber, brick, or stone Is hard, tho easy this: the land Must be my 0\1'11! - Richard Butler Gleanzer. Conntr~ · Life. THE lOW A HOMEMAKER "A Magazine for Homemakers from a Homemakers' School" VOLUME 3 JUNE-JULY, 1923 NUMBERS 3 and 4 The Architectural Design of a Home By ALLEN HOLMES KIMBALL, A. I. A., Professor of Architectural Engineering HE home, as an architectural prob For a house to be successful archi example there is no standard size for T lem is one which is often neglected tecturally it must express the individu a kitchen. The size is determined by and not given the serious consideration· ality of its occupants, it must be a home the equipment to be accommodated and it should have by members of the ar<:hi in the truest sense. The three funda the wishes of the owner. One person tectural profession. Statistics show that mentals of design must be satisfied, will insist on enameled woodwork, etc., not more than two percent of all domes namely economy . of space- practical ar while another will be equally insistent tic architecture in America is designed by rangement of the units ·of plan and ex upon varnish and painted walls. So one architects. Such a condition is due to terior elevations, economic construction can see the endless variety of ideas that many causes. Probably the most im and beauty of design. can be gotten relative to a simple kitch portant reason being that the average Location plays an important part in en. This is only one of the reasons for person who wishes to build a home hasn't the proper design of a house. It is im saying that the design of a home is a learned to appreciate the value of such possible, for example to get a satisfact complicated problem. professional service nor has he or she ory one story bungalow if it is placed In order to plan a home and get a learned that there is no type of design on a lot which is bounded on either side good result one must take considerable whkh requires more care and skill in by exceedingly tall residences. The bun time and assemble all ideas possible. order to get a satisfactory result. galow would be completely dwarfed by Then by a process of elimination grad Again the criticism has been made . such a setting while if it were built on ually build up a list of essential items that the architectural profession is in the proper kind of a lot a good result to submit to an architect to work out. different to the problem and that other could be obtained. Many very well plan Usually further processes of e)imina lines of endeavor are more remunerative. ned homes have been spoiled by just tion tal'e place before the house can be Such criticisms as cited above are both such a condition. gotten within the available expenditure. true. However, some one must take care Today there is quite a decided tend House planning can be compared to a of the design and construction of homes ency to build houses to fit in with some game of checkers in which a great deal and the result is in many respects quite fad or fancy and only too often such a of thought and study must be given to unsatisfactory. It is impossible to ex scheme leads to results which are often every n1ove. pect to find all refinements in propor regretted later. Good taste does not The writer has had a considerable ex tions, teauty and taste in the hap-hazard change like fashions. It is better to perience in designing hundreds of types of houses which we have in our build conservatively than to feel disap houses, and never yet has he found any cities and towns. The builder has used pointed later because the result wasn't two persons who were satisfied with his best judgment in solving the prob satisfactory. Fads change. A few y!lars the same design. Unfortunately much lem but due to the element of individual age for example, the large kitchen and erroneous information is published and ity on the part of every client it is almost butler's pantry were considered essen the result follows that many people wish impossible for him to get away from cer tial in every home. Today with chang to build absurd structures. For example tain defined types. He hasn't the neces ing economic conditions the pantry has I remember a client who insisted upon sary training nor skill to produce original disappeared and the small buffet kitchen using red wood for flooring in her kitch designs. His problem is gauged almost is in vogue. en. The idea being that it was a very entirely by the expenditure and his limit Certain styles of houses have become soft wood and hence would be easy to ed experience. too popular in many communities. For walk upon. In theory such a reasoning As an interesting study there is no example the Colonial type whether it be might be permissible but from the stand fielrl which offers more possibilities of the true Northern type with its nar point of service the soft wood is useless than the planning of a home. Ever since' row eaves, many small windows, etc. or unless covered with linoleum. the beginning of time man has been of the Dut('h Colonial type with gambrel Climatic conditions make it particular building to protect himself and family roof, etc. What can be more distracting ly necessary to build sturdy structures. against the elements. The primitive than to see a house of the latter type Flimsy wall construction means excess t:vpes were hardly more than shelters which is planned with an informal ar ive coa l bills, unsanitary conditions, etc. and even today much money is expended rangement of rooms on the interior and Hence the necessity for the designer of upon ugly buildings which can hardly not at all expr essive of the exterior. homes to be thoroly familiar with good be said to be anything other than an Truth in expression is one of the main construction. A home is not a home area of ground covered by four walls essentials to be gotten if one wishes to when it is a "barn," a cold structure in and a -roof. A systematic study of the design a successful home. winter and an oven in summer. If more problem will bring about many interest There is no rule or formula by which people would look upon the building of ing solutions. The ever present element to design a },C'me. Some people have a home as a business proposition and of cost usually handicaps one in his de very decided notions as to size of rooms.

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