READY-MADE VERSUS CUSTOM-BUILT HOUSESREADY-MADE VERSUS CUSTOM-BUILT HOUSES Whether to buy a lot and build or to buy a house already finished, or partly so, is a question that can be decided only by the individual, according to experience, inclination, or means. To build for yourself is, of course, in the last analysis, the best course. By so doing you get more nearly the sort of house you really want. It will fit your needs better than any ready-built house can, and fewer compromises will have to be made. It is true that planning and building a satisfactory house are difficult and complicated processes. If this is your first adventure in suburban living, the adjusting of your life to it and the developing of the grounds around a ready-made house may be all you want to tackle. The next move can be to a house of your own building. However, since the development of gardens and grounds generally is so difficult around the ready-made house, because the builder seldom gives any thought to these matters in placing the house, arranging approaches, and locating entrances, it is futile to try to deal with that problem here. In
such a situation all you can do is to make
the best possible arrangement under what
are practically certain to be adverse conditions.
To deal with the landscape problem properly
we must begin at the beginning, namely,
with a vacant site, and work from there.
Only in this way can the proper relationship
between house and grounds, indoors and
out of doors, be established. garden planning continued... |
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