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Your Farmhouse: Cut-Outs to Help in Planning
Title
Your Farmhouse: Cut-Outs to Help in Planning
Creator
Date
1947
Relation
U.S. Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication Number 622
Subject
Excerpt
Good house planning is a family job. It is best done carefully over a period of time and in easy stages before you engage a builder.
Before planning to remodel or build a new farm- house, let the whole family get together and talk over just what each one wants in a house. For example, the children are older and need more bedrooms or a more spacious living room for social gatherings. A modern kitchen is long overdue. The growing family needs more work room and more storage space. The aged or ill have special needs. But when planning keep in mind changes that occur as the family grows up and the children marry and move away. Make a list of these needs. And be sure to include insulation, weather stripping, and heating, lighting, water and sanitation systems, repairs, and decoration that may add to the cost. Accident and fire prevention must also be considered in planning. When you have listed your family's needs, the next step is to plan how you can build to meet these needs and keep within your building budget.
This publication is prepared as an aid to wise planning and sound investment for the farm family that wishes to remodel the old house or build new. First, study the room lay-outs (pp. 5 through 12). Then each person who helps with the planning can be familiar with good arrangement, with minimum and desirable room sizes, and with necessary clearances around furniture and equipment. All this is a help in planning the right size of house and rooms for your own family.
Practical house planning is done to scale and tested by furniture cut-outs of the same scale. Then you are surer that you can live with comfort and pleasure in the house you plan. Also when your plan is made to scale on paper, you can give your builder a copy to show him exactly what you want. It is important that you and your builder have the same building plan. By following the directions in this publication, you can make a cut-out plan to scale easily with the scale and ruler card, paper and scissors, pencil and pins.
Before planning to remodel or build a new farm- house, let the whole family get together and talk over just what each one wants in a house. For example, the children are older and need more bedrooms or a more spacious living room for social gatherings. A modern kitchen is long overdue. The growing family needs more work room and more storage space. The aged or ill have special needs. But when planning keep in mind changes that occur as the family grows up and the children marry and move away. Make a list of these needs. And be sure to include insulation, weather stripping, and heating, lighting, water and sanitation systems, repairs, and decoration that may add to the cost. Accident and fire prevention must also be considered in planning. When you have listed your family's needs, the next step is to plan how you can build to meet these needs and keep within your building budget.
This publication is prepared as an aid to wise planning and sound investment for the farm family that wishes to remodel the old house or build new. First, study the room lay-outs (pp. 5 through 12). Then each person who helps with the planning can be familiar with good arrangement, with minimum and desirable room sizes, and with necessary clearances around furniture and equipment. All this is a help in planning the right size of house and rooms for your own family.
Practical house planning is done to scale and tested by furniture cut-outs of the same scale. Then you are surer that you can live with comfort and pleasure in the house you plan. Also when your plan is made to scale on paper, you can give your builder a copy to show him exactly what you want. It is important that you and your builder have the same building plan. By following the directions in this publication, you can make a cut-out plan to scale easily with the scale and ruler card, paper and scissors, pencil and pins.