Traditional Contemporary A Combination Style Emerges
A mid sized two story four bedroom home blends New England character with new window and doorway designs. Architect Herman H York features an impressive entrance foyer, a mostly glass rear family room opening onto a wide paved terrace, and a second floor balcony overlooking the foyer. Design R-44 totals about 2680 square feet with 1800 on the first floor and 882 upstairs, including a two car garage and private garden enclosure.
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Herman H. York
Movie Set Houses Built to Look Real in Record Time
On a Norwalk Connecticut set for Man on a Swing, art director Joel Schiller describes building a fully equipped house and a fake police station with running water, details to fool cameras. He notes meticulous preplanning, full-scale set construction in three weeks, and versatile disguises like veneer wood used as marble.
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Vivian Brown
UP News
Joel Schiller
Norwalk
Conn
Schiller
Disneyland
Cliff Robertson
Frank Perry
Perry
Hollywood Hills
Wifely Nudge Awakens George Montgomerys Fix-It Talents
Actor George Montgomery credits his wife Dinah Shore for starting his lifelong DIY career. From rebuilding a wagon door to constructing a 7,000 square foot Beverly Hills house and a Palm Springs project, he turned furniture making into a major profession with Johnson Wax consulting.
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Vivian Brown
George Montgomery
Dinah Shore
Sixfooter
Windsor Bench
Queen Anne
Encino
Calif
George
Alan Ladds
Gary Coopers
Fred McMurrays
Bill Bendixes
Ogle
Robert Taylor
Jack Webb
Palm Springs
Beverly Hills
Montgomery
Johnson
New York
Montana
Watson Webb Jr
Massachusetts
Thermostat use and night cooling guidance
The reader asks if 57 degrees is too low for night heating and notes sluggish morning warming after lowering from 68. An expert replies that lowering the thermostat a few degrees at night is fine but extreme cold can waste fuel as the furnace works overtime in the morning. The suggested maximum nightly drop is 6 degrees.
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By Andy Lang
New England
FavLe
LVN BM
Catutbell Ett
TOST
BUD RM
Illuttf Living
Melissa
John
Yugoslavia
Thailand
Johnson Wax
Minish Alumi
Inum & Heating CO
High Point
Enterprise
North Carolina
Zeb Barnhardt
Thomasville, N.C
Gerald Morgan
Morgan's Expert Fence CO
Cing Bank
Hoyse Morgan MQ
Archdale
Raynor Paint & Aluminum Co
Alcoa & Reynolds
S. Main St
Telephone
Aluminum
Ewes
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