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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1964
Page
8
Practical guide to creating built-in storage within the home. Discusses planning with the family, selecting dimensions to fit available space, and choosing materials such as Western Pine. Covers shelves drawers doors frames hinges and methods to maximize closet and wall space for personal and family needs.
Easy home project joins a closet with aromatic red cedar to provide moth repellent storage. Pieces nailed over walls and floor form a strong welded joint by tongue and groove design. No finishing needed, and cedar fragrance helps protect clothes from moths. Local dealers stock cedar lining bundles and molding.
A fence or screen with vertical louvers creates a dramatic background for fruit trees and textured surfaces. Besides privacy, such fences heighten garden drama and serve as foils for statuary or special interest plants.
Landscaping shapes first impressions of a home influencing value and saleability. Design excellence follows topography, views, and screening of unsightly sights, linking house to ground with living plant life. Outdoor living grows popular with shade, flowers, privacy via hedges, and fruit bearing trees for fresh produce.
Halls doorways and heavy traffic areas of wood floors should receive an extra coat of wax occasionally to retain a matching shine to the rest of the floor.
A 1900 weekly Arizona Graphic article jokes on cooking husbands noting many are spoiled by mismanagement in cooking. It lists reactions from hot water to freezing roasting stewing and pickling.
A reader poll shows 98 percent oppose using the phrase asking price to start negotiations in home listings. Only 1 percent see no harm, another 1 percent favor it for potential bargains, with varied opinions from buyers and sellers across the letters. The piece notes the NEA has 900,000 members, 92 percent of whom are classroom teachers.
A spring checklist outlines essential home maintenance from roof repairs and flashing replacement to gutter cleaning and crack sealing. It covers exterior tasks such as siding, masonry cracks, paint, screens, foundation maintenance, and indoor checks on plaster, floors, electrical and plumbing, plus annual tune ups for heating systems.
To blunt a nail before driving it into wood hold the nail upside down on a firm surface and strike the point lightly with a hammer. The dull point will shear through fibers rather than spreading them, aiding a cleaner joint.
Van Plomrades advertises triple track self storing screen windows at 58 Laurel Avenue Saco with a price of 13.75 and a contact number AT 4-6128 offering satisfaction guaranteed.
The World's Fair displays on home furnishings showcase affordable, inventive decorating concepts for modern households. Highlights include wall and ceiling mounting to save space, floating ceilings for air flow, furniture with electric outlets, dual finished back panels for room dividers, Formica walls that wipe clean, and regionally influenced settings.
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