ABSTRACT
Houses at Atany are one-story buildings, like those of other Hungarian villages. The walls are constructed of adobe and the roofs are thatched with reeds. In Atany an increase in the number of family members never used to result in construction of additional rooms or even of a single room; growing families preferred to occupy new houses. The kert is a farmyard which is separated from the house. Its size varies between 200 square fathoms and one hold. Its main building is the stable. The cart shed and the tool house used to be under the roof of the stable; they may be housed in a separate building, to which a shed for the chaff* and fodder may be added. In the new houses a small living room, the “small house, ” takes the place of the traditional pantry while the traditional living room, the “parlor, ” is reserved for special occasions.
