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The Formal Dining Room Disappears When The 1932 Invention Of The Ranch Home By Cliff May Arrives.
Formal dining room holiday dinners where you get a second helping of that killer green bean casserole, more carved light turkey meat and just a smidgen of sweet potato. Ranch style homes created by a San Diego California architect Cliff May meant big changes coming. Major ones. Shake the Etch O Sketch vigorously as you lay out this new housing design on one floor. Start building in a whole new way to hold down costs and mirror the lifestyle of a new house buying public. Open design, squash and park that dining room in to a quick and easy corner of the kitchen, living room. Instead of four full walls, just throw up a short stub divider a few feet long. To give the illusion of a room reduced to double duty for that kitchen or living room.
Ditto for the open front hall foyer room where you used to hang coats in that closet by the front door for those house party guests. Just shorted it up a tad with another stub half wall. With a planter that never has real vegatation. None through out all the revolving door owners that come and go in this long, lean ranch. The one where ... more

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