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The house is somewhat atypical in that it was built from the very beginning as a double house. Iakov Basans'kyi had a tendency to drink. From the time that he began to plan his house, he admitted that his children would have a hard time living with him because of his drinking habits. Thus, he constructed a house where the children could have privacy.

Normally, a house would be a single main room, with an attached kitchen that would be at least partially outside, connected to an entryway where food stuffs and other household necessities would be stored. As children were born, grew, and married, additional rooms to accommodate their families would be built off of the main room. In the Latysh house, the part for the children was part of the original floor plan and it is divided from the main room by the kitchen/entryway area. It forms a mirror image of the main room.