Most people have great difficulty in picturing to themselves the appearance of a home before it is built. A model, built to scale, will 
solve the problem, and prevent disappointment with the finished building 
The Small Model as an Aid in Building a Home 
MADE OF CARDBOARD, SANDPAPER, CELLULOID, SPONGES, BIRD-GRAVEL AND 
WHAT-NOT—IT SHOWS A HOME-BUILDER WHAT HIS HOME WILL REALLY BE LIKE 
by Lawrence Visscher Boyd, A. A. I. A. 
W HEN an architect has 
designed the plans 
and elevations of his client’s 
house, his troubles have just 
begun. Nearly every client 
—or his wife — thinks he or 
she can read plans perfectly, 
and after doing so knows ex¬ 
actly how the house will 
look when completed. But 
reading plans is not easy. In 
fact, to the average layman 
a plan is about as intelligible 
as Greek or Sanscrit, so it 
Rough-cast stucco walls are well represented by sandpaper. The roof 
is of overlapping layers of thin cardboard 
is no wonder that when the 
work is actually in prog¬ 
ress, the owner “didn’t 
know it was going to look 
like that," or his wife, “can¬ 
not understand why there 
isn't a bay-window in the 
den instead of a casement.” 
Of course it is the archi¬ 
tect’s business to please, but 
it takes the proverbial pa¬ 
tience of Job to handle the 
man who, in the first place, 
doesn't know exactly what 
The trees are made of small pieces of sponge, dyed green and 
placed upon twigs 
Grass may be sown, ready cut, by scattering it upon cardboard 
covered with glue 
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