Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1917 — HOME TOWN HELPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOME TOWN HELPS

REMODELED HOUSE LIKE NEW Dwelling That Is Made Over May Come Nearer Meeting Needs Than One Constructed to Order. The remodeled house Is often more comfortable, charming and satisfying than one built new. Buying a house already built is much like purchasing clothes ready-made: it is never quite 4^-perfect fit; there in never perfect harmony with individual needs and requirements, says Noble Foster Hoggson In the Phlaldelphla Public Ledger. Remodeling makes it virtually a new house, with the added advantage that, the general plan being satisfactory, it is easier t° see J ast what modifications and improvements are needed than to see them in imagination from a study of the architect’s plans for a complete new building. An old house, endeared through years of occupancy and association, grows into a familiar adjustment to the needs of the family. But usually there comes a growing realization of the many ways in which it might he altered and improved. The growing family requires more rooms or changed arrangements; or the taste of the owner, becoming finer with the years, or bettered fortune making It easier to make his dreams a reality, brings him face to face with the problem of remodeling, should he not care to move to a new dwelling which might prove, when tested by occupancy, less satisfying; The two principal reasons for remodeling are the utilitarian and the esthetic: the need of more space or more convenience and comfort and the natural desire to make the home more beautiful to the eye. Both requirements can be met perfectly by proper remodeling, which may really prove an actual transformation. Remodeling gives a stamp of individuality to a dwelling as nothing else can, for it means the revising of the building within and without to harmonize with individual tastes and needs.