Second Homes for Leisure Living, Douglas Fir Plywood Association

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Various forms, including complete PDF, are available HERE at archive.org.

Not an official contest entry, but a wonderful 36-page gloriously colored booklet full of classic 60's illustrations of mid-century vacation homes.   The Douglas Fir Plywood Association offers a wide range of different build-yourself homes.  

I'm torn between the "Convertible" Second House with its ever-present quotations of doubt, the Shoreside Homarina and Dock (Home+Marina, get it?), the Three-Stage Beach Cabin, and the Versatile Shorthill, pictured below.  (full size 1864x1181).



Dig the happening interior, and the guy with the pipe.  "Mighty pleasant on warm summer evenings," I can hear him say with the pipe clenched in his teeth.   Plywood!

Comments

[crabofdoom.livejournal.com]

Dibs on the Tea House, even if the artist doesn't know squat about efficient use of a small space. "20x24 feet for the whole thing? Let's put a full-sized mattress on the living room floor!".

[hannahsarah.livejournal.com]

Oh plywood, what CAN'T you do?

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

The Loch Haven for me! (With some changes.)

I saved the PDF for future reference. Great find! Thanks!

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

Weekend Beach Cottage.

But I love me an A-frame home in the White Mountains.

[ms-hissyfit.livejournal.com]

That is great! Thank you for linking this. I totally need an imaginary midcentury second-home.

[herbadness.livejournal.com]

I don't know, the illustration looks more like 12 x 40. Still, it looks like a house out of Star Trek.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

If you build that thing in the "wide-open vistas of Texas," you better be prepared for some huge electric bills or to be extremely uncomfortable in the summer as I don't see any evidence of insulation. I know this for a fact because when my dad started building our house, it started out as a plywood shack about that size and we lived in it in the summer with no electricity. My parents were into this back-to-the-land thing at the time and, oh, yeah, it was tons o'fun. No wonder I grew up to be a total suburbanite!

[drakegrey.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this, this is just so cool!

I love how the beamwork makes it look like you're living in a bowling alley. Heck, with the oblong shape you could probably make a lane out of it.

[write-light.livejournal.com]

I would be serious money that someone did just that. Be sure to check out the full PDF file (linked in post) for many other cool designs.