Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 21 February 1961 — Page 2

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Storage Space Problems Are Often Soloed By Built-Ins

Big home or little home, large household or small, there is hardly a family that can say it has adequate storage space. The lack may be general—from attic to the basement—or it may be confined mainly to certain rooms, such as kitchen, bathroom, or family roorri. Lumber and lumber paneling are ideal for creating built-ins to correct the lack of storage facilities, for lumber will fit into any decorative scheme and it is economical and easy to work with. This is especially true of softwoods and some of the most readily availaide are the species that grow in the western pine region. Built-ins naturally should be appropriate to the room. This sounds elementary, but it takes some planning and forethought to work out the sort of built-ins that will do the best job in a specific situation. For example, storage space in a kitchen should be co-ordinated with work areas. Drawers and cabinets should be planned to hold heavy equipment below counters and cupboards to contain lighter items should go above. Consideration should be given, too, to spacer

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for mixers, toasters, blenders and other small appliances that a housewife may not wish to keep out all the time. In a bathroom — even in a small one — there usually is space to box in the area under the basin. This will provide room for towels, extra soap and bathroom tissue, and perhaps also for bulkier things such as hot water bottles. If the bathroom is fairly good-sized, then cabinets may be built on the wall to hold these supplies, medicines and other necessities. A family room, of course can provide storage space for myriad belongings. These may include movie and slide projection equipment, card tables and game supplies, hobby materials, and radio-phono-graph equipment. Space also might be set aside in this room to display a collection of old china and glass, athletic trophies, or, perhaps, prized examples of photography. The storage wall is another concept that works in many rooms and will provide a great deal of varied storage space. It is most useful, perhaps, in a

DESIGN No. C-543 The main entrance of this traditional home leads directly into the kitchen, giving privacy to the living room and leading directly to the bedroom wing. Bedrooms have built-in Gresser trays and wardrobe type closets. The master bedroom lavatory and another adjoin a common room for the bath. A well arranged kitchen with waist high oven, counter top range adjoin the large dining area. The stairway leads to a full basement from the rear entry which also has a door to the attached garage. Well proportioned, the living room is graced with a fireplace and broad picture window. Excluding 351 square feet for the garage the plan covers 1385 square feet and contains 26,772 cubic feet. For further information about DESIGN No. C-543, write the Small House Planning Bureau, St. Cloud, Minn. In Canada, the Small House Planning Bureau of Canada. St. John, New Brunswick.

child's bedroom, where a wardrobe closet arrangement will hold both hanging and folded clothing, and drawers or even bins can be utilized for sports equipment and toys. However, it can be used almost anywhere to advantage. These .built-in units can be designed to cover a whole wall and will save sipace often occupied by furniture. Bathroom Divider Can Be Useful Storage Cabinet If there’s room in your bathroom for a divider, it might as well be a useful device like a storage cabinet.— A cabinet of six-foot height can easily be custom-built to meet your family’s needs. Made of lumber and covered with a paintable or woodgrained hardboard panel, the storage-divider can be both attractive and useful. To help classify the storage, jj’s a good idea to have four compartments —two above and two below, each behind sliding doors. The doors are simply panels that fit into metal channels. The cabinet back can be fitted with towel bars, especially if it is convenient to the lavatory or shower. To get maximum use of the storage space, line the cabinet with Peg-Board. This will be particularly handy in one of the lower corn-* partments, which could be devoted to cleaning supplies, for hanging shelves that will hold cans and bottles. Other items can be suspended from hooks. Shelves in the other sections can easily be supported by Peg-Board hooks bent slightly to form horizontal projections at each Sid?. Then the wood shelves may be raised or lowered simply by moving the hooks to meet varying <equir&ments. All materials for the divideicabinet are available at lumberyards. More Profit If Pigs Kept Cool, Comfy Pigs raised in an insulated, weatherproof house in which the temperatures can be controlled in the 60 to 70 degree Fahrenheit range are healthier, gain fast, and produce more meat per pound of feed. Available to hog farmers nationally now is a panel system farrow-ing-nursery house which has insulated and vapor-sealed walls and ceiling that permit only one-fifth as much winter heat loss as concrete block walls. The mass-produced building sections ar6 put together fast with local labor and a factory-trained supervisor. Using local labor, you can save up to 22 per cent on the total cost, according to the agriculture department of Masonite Corporation. Farmers are advised that for early weaning, this type of housing is essential; for conventional weaning, it's a wise, profit-building investment.. The specially - treated, smooth hardboard panels forming a “sandwich" over the® insulation and internal framing provide great strength and durability. ‘Frame’ Doorway To Brighten Bedroom ■ -.- To “pep up” the looks of a child's room, frame the doorway with a border of decorative paneling in a color or pattern different from that on the adjacent walls. The border, about four inches wide, may be applied along the edges of the door frame. In Older homes it might be put over the old woodwork to avoid a refinishing job. Decals can be applied to plastic-surfaced hardboard without marring the washable finish.

Prime - coated hardboards may be used for various "home improvements such as canopies, partitions, built-ins and furniture.

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Wallpapers Can Coordinate Decor Throughout Home

If you are about to redecorate, keep in mind two major objectives. The first is to bring sparkle and interest to the home, and the second is to keep a look of harmony in the home. No matter how imaginative your ideas are, if they don’t jell together the result will be unsatisfying. For the unprofessional home decorator this often presents a problem. But there is help at hand, and at no charge. Visit your local wallpaper store and take a look at the sample books there. You will find in almost every sample book, groups of coordinated papers that make a good starting off point for a decorating scheme. Two. three or even four papers are tied together by design or color or mood, or sometimes by all three. A typical grouping might be a repeat design of a Colonial scene in light beige, brown and burnt orange, which could be used effectively in the hall; a small neat documentary pattern in the same three colors, which would look well in the dining room, and a simple embossed texture of beige with slight flecks of brown and burnt orange, which would be a good choice for the living room as a background for the many books and pictures. This would give both contrast and harmony in three connected areas. Use these ready matte schemes throughout the house wherever you have adjoining rooms to decorate such as bedroom and bathroom, or kitchen and dinette. These matchmates are not new, but they are now to be found in the popular priced field in many attractive designs of fine quality. They bring unity and distinction to any room, Where a room has no particular style, either because of different furnishings that don't blend too well or because of too many .distracting colors, the use of these matchmates will do a great deal to tie in scattered effects and give harmony to the room. Trained decorators know how to use what is on the market, and the do-it-yourself decorator too, should use all these built in aids that are there for the looking. The job wilt be easier and the results better. A Peg-Board Liner Tidies Up Garage Garages are notorious for being unkempt catchalls for items running the gamut from kids’ tricycles to a conglomeration of hoes, rakes and other garden equipment. A goodlwme Improveinenr starter project, which will dress up the garage's interior and reduce the fire hazard, is a functional liner. Unsightly to begin with, in most cases, because they usually show unfinished wall studs, garages can be given interior walls that have a dual-purpose organized storage to end garage chaos, and a 1,000 "per cent improvement in appearance. Job Is Inexpensive Such a garage renovation can be highly satisfying to the home owner because it's inexpensive and easy to accomplish, with or without the help of the family. First step, after ordering the lining material, ¥4" Peg-Board panels, whose perforations will hold heavy or light objects, is cleaning out the present contents. Sell or give away the accumulated things that nofejon? really wants. The rest can be, nung neatly on the new wall liner. Floor-to-ceiling installations of this versatile board will provide storage facilities for such things as ladder?, wheelbarrows, paint cans, garden tools, children’s toys and play equipment and the over* flow from the basement, utility room or attic, i Strong metal fixtures that fit interchangeably in any of the hun-

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New Colors Will Do Much For A Room Through skillful use of color, you can make rooms look larger or smaller to suit your taste. This eliminates expensive remodeling and often gives the same effect. Well applied paints in certain colors produce distinct changes in appearance. For instance, an unusually large room often seems cold and uninviting. Painting the walls with strong warm colors—one of the yellow, orange or red hues — can make the room seem smaller and give it a new and friendly feeling. Different color paints are useful for creating separate activity areas, in One large room, such as areas for reading, conversation, card games, music, TV or other purposes. Place some pieces of furniture at right angles to the wall in addition to painting two walls different bold or warm shades. Painting Small Rooms If you have a very small room, paint furniture, built-in, doors, woodwork and walls all the same color, using a pale cool color. Walls Will seem to recede and the same color everywhere will give the illusion of unbroken space. Carry the one-color effect still further by using carpeting and draperies of the same shade. If you have a long, narrow room, paint the small end a warm, advancing color to make it seem closer, though other walls may be of lighter hues. If you have an L-shaped room ■with an alcove or dormer, paint it all one color to unify it. In buying new furniture, always choose pieces which are in scale for the space in which they are to be used. However, if you own or have inherited some heavy upholstered pieces, you can reduce their bulk by having them slipcovered in a plain fabric to blend with the color of the wall. i Pre-Test Colors Changing the apparent size of a room need not become a problem, if you try out your ideas on paper first. Use little color blocks in miniature rooms and try oyt color swatches in the actual rooms you plan to paint to see how color choices will create desired impression. -° For a quick change with paint, latex paints are among the easiest to use. These paints dry to the touch in a short time so that the room may be used the same day. They have no unpleasant odor and skips can be repainted with no brush marks showing. They come in a wide range of colors; pastels, dark shades, or custom-mixed. “Saw Hor»e” You can improvise an extra “saw horse” by opening a ladder about two-thirds the way while it is laying on its side. World-Wide Product Hardboard is made by Masonite’s exploded wood fiber process not only in America, but in Africa and Australia as well. Prevent Spills Sprinkle fine sand on freshly painted porch or cellar steps for a skid-proof surface. dreds of Peg-Board holes support the storage items out of the way, yet within easy reach when needed. , . Installing the panels in a garage with wall studs is easy, since they simply are nailed or screwed to the properly-spaced vertical lumber. Leave a space ( the thickness of a nickel between panels to allow for expansion. Both panels and matching fixtures may be obtained at lumber yards. Using factory-primed boards will simplify the finishing process.

Paneling A Room Is Now Easier For A Home Owner

» Paneling a room in wood is a lot easier thin it used to be, and there is no room in the house where wood paneling doesn’t fit in with most furnishings. About 35 native tree species produce lumber suitable for paneling. Each contains several variations in color and grain pattern, so you have literally hundreds of different decorative effects to choose from.

Now Is Time To Check-Dp On Roofing An early spring inspection of the roof is a timely and useful operation, because the rigors of the winter months may have caused damage that would otherwise go unnoticed. Slow and unseen leaks are among the principal causes of permanent injury to the roof structure, framing and sills. Long exposure to the sun will often cause a roof to become dry and porous, and sudden temperature changes are a factor in the curling of roof shingles. Some of the danger signals to look for are these: Asphalt shingles, that have outlived their usefulness, will show the first signs of eventual roof failure by granules washing off, permitting the felt underneath to dry out or crack. Shrinkage will cause old wood shingles to crack and split. In extreme cases, they will curl, allowing sleet and rain to wash under them, thus weakening the understructure of the roof. When nails begin to pop out, this is usually a sign that the wood has rotted around the nail holes. Faulty application and long wear can both contribute to failure of roll roofing. Over the years, the sun dries out this roofing and causes blistering and cracking. Look for specific trouble spots around dormer windows and chimney flashings, vent pipes, valleys and gutters and on hip roofs. Recommended by roofing experts is a good metal or felt flashing material to assure water-tight dormers. It is . a good idea to examine chimney areas for any indication of corrosion or separation of the flashing. Although not part of the roof area, gutters and leaders should get the home-owner's attention at roof inspection time. Failure of the gutters is sometimes due to the poor pitch or a stopped-up condition of the leaders.

FARM FIX-UP CELEDRATION By Handy Jim Well-planned buildings, coupled with scientific management, can put the hog farmer in a better profit position. VVith adequate, permanent facilities, he can market hogs throughout the year, not just when the prices are low. Structures especially planned for production of pigs now are available nationally through fabricators franchised by Masonite Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of hardboards. These trained fabricators can deliver eight, 12, 16 or 20-stall units, complete with sow pen, farrowing stalls, nursery pens, reed room and service area. TO PREVENT bulls from damaging the solid wood doors of their pens with their horns, a Minnesota farmer covered them with 14” tempered presdwood. The doors still receive the rough treatment, but the smooth, hard surface of the hardboard is undamaged. DIRECT SALES to consumers by means of a roadside stand are bringing extra profits to many farmers and other folks with big gardens. A serviceable, attractive :structure can be built by nailing W” tempered presdwood to a framework of 2x4-inch lumber spaced 16” apart. For the display shelves, it’s a good idea to use tempered presdwood, because it can be kept clean easily and won’t absorb food odors. It is moisture-resistant, too, and customers won't get splinters when they pick up an item for close inspection. A let-down front can keep the stand closed securely overnight. Built as suggested, this stand may remain outdoors the year around. It should be given a prime coat of paint and two coats of exterior quality. Built at reasonable cost, this well-con-structed stand will soon pay for itself and should last many seasons. A SHOVELING BOARD is one that's used for shoveling on, not with. On a farm, a floor of ¥4“ tempered presdwood in a corn crib, granary or feed storage area is ideal because it has Cl) a smooth surface which makes shoveling easy, (2) a long-wearing surface that will last for years and years, and ( 3* no splinters to wear out feed bags and tempers.

Before installing your paneling, make certain it is conditioned adequately for interior use. The wood has been thoroughly dried at the mill, but interim changes in weather may have altered its moisture content. Store the wood in the room you’re going to panel for 7-10 days before using it. If you are paneling a masonry wall, attach lx2-inch furring strips to the existing surface first. Place them two feet apart and use masonry nails for the fastenings. The strips should run at right angles the longest dimension of ypur paneling—that is, horizontally in the case of boards laid vertically: vertically for boards laid horizontally. If you are covering a plaster wall, first step is to locate the studs underneath. Note where the nailheads are in the base molding; they are undoubtedly anchored in the studs. If this procedure doesn’t work, tap the wall and then drill small holes at those points where you get a "solid” sound. A magnetic “stud finder” is helpful. With horizontal paneling, each board may be attached directly through the plaster to the studs. Vertical paneling may be attached to horizontal furring strips, which have been nailed previously to the studs at 2-foot intervals. The same procedure applies if you’ve built a new room partition as part of your project and want to panel it. Here, of course, since the studs are exposed, they don't have to be prelocated. Wood paneling can be anchored to studs or furring strips with either metal dips or nails. If you buy boards with grooved edges, adjoining pieces will overlap and hide the nails. Use finishing nails when it’s necessary to go through from the face of the board. Drive the nails in below the surface with a nail set and then cover the spot with putty or tinted filler. It is not always possible to install paneling that will fill in the space between floor and ceiling lines exactly. Therefore, you might consider base moldings that cover the gaps produced and enhance the beauty of the paneling. Three kinds of natural finishes are possible. One is transparent surface film (varnish* and usually changes the color of the wood only slightly. A second type consists of a stain to color the wood and accentuate or mask grain patterns followed by a clear surface coating. A third type of finish is semitransparent and contains, a masking pigment. It is -usually of the penetrating type. u

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