Concrete Bungalow. (Our California Correspondent.)

Progress, Volume V, Issue 5, 1 March 1910, Page 170

Concrete Bungalow. (Our California Correspondent.)

In the last few years reinforced concrete has come into such prominence as a building material that it is attracting the attention of all who are in any way interested in building, architects, engineers, and insurance companies, as well as the keen speculator who wants a building that is practically indestructible, requiring little or no repairs, and showing a saving of 30 per cent, in cost of insurance.

Concrete construction has been well tried out in all classes of commercial buildings, and there is now a general demand for this method in the building of homes. A recent construction is a very charming bungalow in the Japanese style. It is inexpensive in detail, and yet very effective, simplicity being its greatest charm, the Japanese roof giving the building a novel appearance without increasing the cost. The living-room, dining-room, den, hall and kitchen are arranged conveniently on the first floor, while the seemingly small second story contains three roomy bedrooms and a spacious hall. The fireplace in the den and the beamed ceiling of the living room mark the bungalow style of interior treatment. The two rooms mentioned are really one

erreat room, being separated only by the partition book eases. The covered porch flanked by terraces and the tilted eaves give character to the exterior. The house is designed for a lot at least 60ft. wide, and is better adapted to a 75ft. lot. The design has been used in California, where the owner built his home for 6800, using concrete block for the exterior walls, finished with stucco. The interior plaster was applied directly on the block walls. No basement was provided. The interior partitions and floors were wooden and Oregon pine, costing about as much as Georgia pine, was n^ed for finish. In the middle west this neat home could be built for £1000 at the most, carrying the Avails down to the bottom of the basement, finishing tbe basement with concrete floors

and installing a hot air furnace. The plans are adapted to the use of concrete plaster or metal lath, concrete block or brick. The concrete residence shown here was designed by Brown Bros., architects, Cedar Rapids, lowa.