Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1918 — Kind of House In Demand. [ARTICLE]

Kind of House In Demand.

The last matter influencing cost Is “marketability." To be saleable a house must measure up to and down to a standard. Mahogany and quartered oak wainscoting, plate glass windows and other similar embellishments do not increase the selling value to any great extent. ?y the time you are ready to sell the style In these things will have changed, and they are then more likely to decrease than increase the value. Be measurably conventional, and comfortably normal in your ideas. The best houses are not the most expensive or the most peculiar. • They are almost always the expression of a “type,” and follow the main features of their type, departing from the normal only in minor ways. This is the kind of house that is always in demand.