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Article: Coping With a Split Personality
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 1, 1988
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Picture the Brady Bunch, one of TV's favorite late 1960s sitcom
families. Now picture the house they lived in: a typical
split-level-one of the most popular styles of American housing at the
time. But times have changed. And many of today's homeowners are
remodeling these quintessential 1950s and 1960s homes into spaces
that better suit the life styles of the 1980s.
The split-level house, and its first cousin the split-foyer,
take their name from the multilevel spaces they are composed of. In
a split level, floors are staggered so that one is more or less a
half-story above or below another. The classic split-level
incorporates three types of living spaces: the living room, dining
room ...