24 Miracles Ahead! 



Miss Coit would rename bedrooms "parents' room" and 

 "children's room," and give them twenty-four hour useful- 

 ness. If Mother sews, there would be room for a machine. 

 Boys need a place for gadgets. And the girl deserves room for 

 a dressing table, and a desk and comfortable chair. The bed- 

 rooms could have some shelves and a few trays built into clos- 

 ets. This would eliminate the dressers, and you'd have more 

 space and less furniture to dust under. Furthermore, built-in 

 bunks are excellent for a boys' or a girls' room. 



Design Your Oivn Apartment 



Walter B. Sanders of Research and Planning Associates, 

 New York City, has designed an apartment house of tomor- 

 row that is similar to Paul Nelson's plan for a house made up 

 of two distinct elements the exterior shell and the prefabri- 

 cated unit rooms. 



Sanders suggests that apartment structures might be de- 

 signed along the lines of loft buildings, consisting of just 

 floors and ceilings. Space could be rented by the square foot, 

 and the amount of standardized equipment could be left to 

 the needs and means of the tenants. 



"Imagine renting an apartment on the basis of the space 

 needed," explained Sanders, "with exposures, amount and 

 placement of windows, size, number and purpose of rooms 

 and closets left to your own choice! The potential market for 

 apartment owners would be vastly increased; strained land- 

 lord-tenant relationship greatly improved." 



The apartment building could consist of two distinct ele- 

 ments. First there would be the structural frame, including 

 floors and ceilings. Within this would be created the individ- 

 ual apartments using mass-produced, standardized wall and 

 partition units. The necessary electric conduits, water-supply 

 and drainage mains, would be in place and there would be 



