A PLACE IN THE SUN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 88, 13 April 1940, Page 13

A PLACE IN THE SUN.

Designing the Home. " Let Your Brains Save Your Feet." THE planning of a home * must be carefully thought out from many points of view—so many in fact that the perfect home has not yet been built. We go to a specialist for health and a dozen and one other things, but how many appreciate the necessity for consultation with such a one on the planning of a home?

One of the most important matter!" for consideration is position of the smi in relation to the section. We arc. almost without exception, sun lover#, and in Xew Zealand the mid-day sun lies in the north. The plan published this week is designed for a section facing north, and therefore if you can imagine yourself standing on the front entrance porch facing the street you would be looking due north.

Realising this, we see that every living room in the house, except the kitchen, gets the mid-day sun. The sun room {which opens through double doors in£p the dining room), living room and frfcnt eun room (or sleeping porch) get

the morning sun as well as the mid-day sun, and the bedrooms get the westerly sun in addition to that of noon.

Now some or my lady readers are going to say that they must have the morning sun in the bedrooms, and, with the utmost respect, I disagree with thcni all except only those Who have rcached the delightful age of my dear old mother. I still look forward to working for my living for many years, and that means I ehall continue staying in bed just as long as I can in the morning, with the resultant scramble into my clothes and hurry off to the breakfast loom. As I cannot stay in bed to enjoy the morning sun. I want it where I have my meal, and I think a little consideration of that aspect of the question proves my ra.-c.

If, however, my case is pot proven to you. then hold the illustration up to the light and look at it from the other •Ode of the paper and the plan will be completely re\ersed with the hedroonis on the eai-t. Lven then I have an argument against your derision; I dine in the evening, and I object strenuously to having the setting <-un streaming into the meal room. But there you are; if we all had the same opinion we would all marry the ,-ame girl. Our back porch faces due .-outh, and we get cold and bad winds from this quarter. tor this reason our kitchen door open* 011 to the. rear passage instead of the back porch, a point which the competent housewife will quieklv apprec.ate. As designed, access is easy and quick from the kitchen to the front door, the bedrooms and bathroom and hall and passage space, whilst ample, is reduced to an aosolute minimum.