Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1917 — Home Town Helps [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Home Town Helps

WIDE PIAZZA ADDS TO HOME Part That Is Roofed May Easily Be Con verted Into Sun Parlor During the Winter Months. A good wide piazza or porch adds greatly to the comfort and beauty of most any home. In order to serve the best purpose ft should be wide and built around several shies of the house.This will insure a cool, shady spot to hang the hammock on a hot summer day for rest ami reading. A piazza should be at least seven feet wide and may be as deep as .12 feet. It is not necessary to have all the piazza covered tftth a roof. It is a good idea to have the part which is to be roofed over so constructed that by the erection of glass sides a sun porch can be provided for winter use. In the winter a piazza which- is entirety, roofed tends to shut off light from the first floor. For this reason the piazza roof should be high, extending to the bottom of the second floor windows. In the summer the piazza may be covered with an awning, or a vine trellis, which on nights when there is little air stirring does away with the feeling of closeness otherwise occasioned. It is a good time to be foresighted when ordering the piazza to tell the architect that It should be made so as to be screened for the warm season. A fine piazza is sometimes a discomfort from the presence of flies or a swarm of mosquitoes or noths. For a bungalow’ or summer cottage near the salt water screens made of copper wire are best as they corrode less from contact with the sea breezes. Ordinary black screens should be painted two months before they are Intended to Wb put in use so that the paint may have time to harden. When windows are put up in the winter the window sashes should be painted with black paint over the red wash which Is put on in the factory and has little preservative quality in it.