Each kitchen is ideally located to command a view of the driveway, highway, and farm buildings. Closets, pantry, and other equipment utilize the darker part of the room, leaving the lighter portions for working area and dining table. These arrangements are complete in the original house. On the screened back porch, which is equipped with laundry trays and closet, men coming from the fields may hang their outside work garments and, except in cold weather, wash before entering the house. Here a great deal of the dirty and messy work in preparing fruits and vegetables for canning may be done. Entrance from the screened porch to the bath or bedrooms reduces to a minimum the traffic through the kitchen and living room. In plan 6520 the screened porch might be divided by a lattice into work and living spaces. [Illustration: COMPLETED HOUSE] [Illustration: FLOOR PLAN] [13] Prepared by Eldred Mowery and C. E. Cope for the Bureaus of Agricultural Engineering and Home Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture. PLAN 6522[14] Floor areas: Superstructure, original house 640 square feet; with addition _A_. 950 square feet; with addition _B_ 930 square feet. Porch, addition _B_, 120 square feet. On account of its compact arrangement, this low-cost house furnishes a very satisfactory amount of usable space for the small family and may be enlarged to three-bedroom size, as indicated on the plans. The kitchen is well-arranged, with moderate storage space, and a wood box filled from outside, with a ventilated cupboard or cooler above it. The workroom, unusually large for a small house, is a good place for laundry or canning and for men to clean up before coming in to meals. Dining space is provided at the rear of the living room. This house should be compared with no. 6527 (p. 36). Board and batten construction is very suitable for a low-cost house, but any other type of construction may be used for plan 6522 if preferred. If the house is built in a cold climate, probably it will be desirable to omit the fireplace and heat the living and bedrooms with a circulator heater. [Illustration: FLOOR PLAN WITH ADDITION A] [Illustration: COMPLETED HOUSE] [Illustration: FLOOR PLAN WITH ADDITION D] [14] Prepared by the Bureaus of Agricultural Engineering and Home Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture. PLAN 6523,[15] FOR THE SOUTH Floor areas: Superstructure, first unit 990 square feet; with addition _A_ 1,420 square feet; with addition _B_ 1,375 square feet. Cellar, 350 square feet. Porches, 100 square feet. Communication between rooms is an important consideration in modern house planning. This has been provided in house 6523 by a small hall, which permits access not only from one room to another but also to the outside, the basement stairs, the washroom, the bathroom, and the linen closet, thus eliminating the necessity of using any room as a passageway.