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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1940
Page
8
The article urges prospective home builders to plan ample electrical wiring with extra sockets to allow for future appliances and avoid costly rewiring. It cautions against economizing on complete electrification, noting modern households need more outlets to prevent unsafe, tangled wiring and to capitalize on future innovations.
Modernistic cottage layout prioritizes convenience and economy with a 1046 square foot area. It features an attached garage with access to entry, outside, basement or kitchen, shakes finish, stucco entrance, and corner windows in a streamlined style. The large basement allows partitioning into a party room or utility spaces such as furnace, laundry, or fruit room.
A quiet study room in every home supports children’s schooling and offers a retreat for rest. The piece stresses locating it away from busy areas, ensuring fresh air, and excluding radios or phones. It argues home ownership is affordable via FHA and private loans, with abundant skilled labor and building materials, and that current conditions encourage a home building surge.
Air conditioning is described as more than cooling, a scientific method to condition air by controlling temperature and humidity for all seasons. The text notes low equipment costs and growing architectural practice to include it as standard in new homes.
The article praises smooth indirect lighting for living rooms, noting that floor and table lamps should supplement rather than replace general illumination. It highlights affordable all-metal and ferro-class fixtures, stresses ceiling-directed light for a uniform, cozy atmosphere, and urges designs to match room architecture and dimensions.
A vintage note emphasizes bathrooms as key to guest impression. It urges combining convenience and beauty, with well lighted, well plumbed rooms and careful color schemes. Dariger warns to watch plumbing and lighting for maximum value.
Basements and attics shift from storage to active living areas as leisure time expands and home recreation gains importance. Adults join in pursuits like table tennis while inexpensive remodeling costs, better lighting, and insulation make conversion feasible.
The piece extols curb appeal with vine trellises bird baths tile arbors and rock walls as affordable keepsakes of pride. It urges neat lawns trimmed hedges shade trees and thoughtful planting with guidance from a gardener. It also briefly describes simple home repairs like faucet joints pipe cement and wood touchups.
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