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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1937
Page
39
New York flight of fancy decor permits diverse styles in one house. Opera star Mme Rethberg’s 15 room Rhineland castle replica blends American, German, Bohemian, Renaissance and Gothic elements with an acoustically tuned hall and a ship cabin sleeping nook.
A periodic inspection of plumbing values in apartment and office buildings can prevent tenant inconvenience and save money for owners. It helps reveal poor conditions that can be fixed cheaply. Replacing inferior valves that fail often is not economical.
Several manufacturers offer units that combine domestic hot water heaters with incinerators. Cast iron appliances use dried refuse as fuel to aid heating water. Install a well insulated storage tank and automatic draft regulator to ensure slow burning and fuel economy. Inspect chimneys and joints for unobstructed draft.
Several manufacturers offer automatic hot water heaters designed to fit into the kitchen layout as a utility table plus a water heater. They form a unit with the counter shelf, sized to suit a kitchen, and allow easy inspection and adjustment. Enclosures are well insulated and usable with gas or electricity. A range of sizes is available.
Proper identification of pipe and valves is essential to good building management. Painting by color codes such as hot-water red cold blue waste yellow vent black can be done while painters are busy and yields convenient, cost effective results.
A modern bedroom features a built in dressing unit with two closets two chests of drawers and a dressing table at one end. A large window sits above the table and mirrors crown the corner over the chests while full length closet mirrors can be opened to provide a full length view.
A garage corner shower accessible from the house keeps the gardener clean. Metal or wooden partitions ensure privacy while a built in drain handles floor water. A matching cabinet stores gardening clothes towels and bath items for quick changes before reentering the home.
Fiber board makers now produce attractive wood surfaced panels including natural and photographic im prints. The material offers real wood appearance with insulating qualities suitable for wall finishing and decorative uses.
A basement recreation room retained the original brick walls from the cellar. The bricks were painted in alternating colors to create an unusual visual effect.
The article stresses choosing a house plan only after buying the lot. It warns that a plan designed for a south facing site may fail on a north facing lot, misplacing living rooms and windows and trapping cooking odors inside. It urges tailoring a design to the actual lot orientation.
Advice on choosing house plans suited to your lot orientation and the option to hire an architect. Emphasizes using plans designed for a lot with the same orientation to ensure better fit and efficiency.
A house designed to fit the lot and align with surrounding features and compass directions commands a higher sales price than a poorly positioned one.
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