Planning Your Individual Home - 1950

PLANNING YOUR INDIVIDUAL HOME. National Plan Service, Inc. 1950. Spiral bound catalog with faux leather covers of house plans. 95 pgs. “This book is dedicated to the home owners of our community. It offers scores of home suggestions and practical advice to facilitate a wise choice of materials in building a new home. To the present home owner it offers many ideas to make his home more modern, efficient and valuable. Interior and exterior ideas are presented for consideration in planning any home, whether it is to be built or already exiting, and they are applicable to the size of the homes shown. It is our hope that through the suggestions and designs this book offers we will have rendered a real service to our many friends and customers individually and to the community as a whole.”

There is information concerning brick and a brick color guide; an insulation guide; glass bricks information; the use of glass in the home; woodwork in the home; hardwood flooring in the home; the attic offers unlimited possibilities and an index. All of these areas are accompanied with illustrations, photos of which many are in color.

The absolutely amazing aspect of this architecture is the full color illustrations of the 80 homes which are featured along with their design specifications.

The illustration sizes are: 1 - 12” x 18”; 38 – 13 ¼ x 11”; 13 – 8 3/4” x 6 1/4”; 2 – 8 1/2” x 5 1/2”; 2 – 8 1/2” x 4 1/2”; 12 – 7” x 5”; 1 – 5 3/5” x 3 1/2”; 6 – 7 1/2” x 4”; 4 – 7 1/2” x 4” (black and white); 1 - 4 1/2" x 3"

The catalog has a very light tide mark (almost not worth mentioning) on the top of the first several pages. Overall the piece is in very good condition.