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Windows in Corners of "Sunlight House"

August 21, 1933
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser
Detroit, Michigan, United States
A Beauty in the Home column featuring a house designed for A Century or Progress.
Beauty in the Home
Windows in Corners of "Sunlight House"

by Edith B. Crumb
This department seeks to give assistance to all who are interested in beautifying their homes and will be glad to answer questions pertaining to interior decoration. In order to serve all who, seek advice promptly no more than three problems will be discussed in any one reply. Readers are invited to write to this department as often as they wish, but to limit each letter to three questions. State your question clearly write on only one side of the paper, enclosing a self-addressed, stamped envelope and address Beauty in the Home department, Detroit News. Letters with their answers will be published for the benefit of all homemakers but names and addresses will not be made public.

This is the eighteenth of a series of stories of the exterior and some of the interiors of the various houses which have been designed, built and furnished, and on display at A Century of Progress.

In the upper portion of the illustration is shown the exterior of what is known as the "Sunlight House" and in the lower portion the layout of the interior. This house was built by The National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, E.A. Grunsfeld, Jr., being the architect, Wolfgang Hoffman designing the interior.

Unlike others which have been shown in this series this house has a pitched roof and isn't it interesting to study the location of the windows which are in the corners? This not only means that there will be a maximum of sunlight but also large wall spaces, both of these being features which are appreciated by the home-maker who wishes to have attractively and conveniently arranged rooms.

This house is of the modern "dry wall" construction throughout which is achieved by the utilizing of wood panels and solid lumber wall finish instead of plaster.

In his description of the house Mr. Grunsfeld says "the architecture of this house is modern but not stylized. It is designed in a...(clipping cut-off)

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.

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