The Home of Tomorrow Lights Up With Electronics
A look at future household innovations from washing machines using ultrasonic cleaning to wall mounted televisions and luminescent walls. Timetables show items now on the market or soon to arrive within five to ten years, including brain powered vacuums and compact electronic stoves.
House Of The Week Cape Cod Expands For Budget Homes
A budget minded Cape Cod story and a half designed by Derick B. Kipp offers four bedrooms and two baths with potential up stairs expansion. The HW-76 plan features 1455 square feet on the first floor including living dining kitchen and study or second bedroom plus two upstairs bedrooms and ample storage. Brick planter and fireplace create harmony between living and dining areas while bow windows add space.
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Derick B. Kipp
United States
Cape Cod
Unfinished Rooms Popular Among Young Homebuyers
A trend shows young couples purchasing larger homes and leaving rooms unfinished. Builders provide spaces with studs and rafters exposed, then owners later complete interiors as families grow and define their style.
Floor Space Advantage From Wood Walls In Homes
The outside dimensions determine floor area, but interior living space varies with wall usage. Wood-frame walls add about 40 square feet of usable space in an average home, stretching a 10 by 14 foot living room or providing room for an extra bathroom, utility area, or closets. The gain grows with house size.
False Walls Move Easily in Flexible Roof Homes
A home buyer planning future interior changes should choose a house with trussed rafters or plank-and-beam roof framing supported on posts. Interior walls can be rearranged since they do not bear the roof load, according to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.
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National Lumber Manufacturers Association
Bird wing bones mirror most human arm bones
A bird’s wing houses the majority of bones present in a human arm, reflecting the shared vertebrate limb structure. The arrangement includes homologous elements such as upper arm, forearm, and hand structures, adapted for flight in avian species.
Room Dimensions and Exposures for a Residence
The living room is 22 feet wide and the smallest bedroom is 13 feet wide. The dining room measures 11 by 13 feet and there are two exposures in all bedrooms, with one bedroom having three exposures. A door from the dining room opens onto the rear porch.
McCall House Construction Under Way North of Cincinnati
Work has begun on the 1958 McCall's Better Living House in Wyoming Meadows Heatherdale Drive near Cincinnati. The center oriented design features a skylight interior garden and a family room with a large window wall facing a back terrace, emphasizing family togetherness in suburbia.
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Cincinnati
Heatherdale Drive
Wyoming Meadows
America
HW-76 Cape Cod with center hall plan and practical kitchen
The house features a rear kitchen near the center hall plan, an island cook top and wall oven beside the fridge, plus ample counter and storage space. A front entry via the porch offers easy access in inclement weather, with brick facing, rough cut shingles, dormer and bow windows, and brick chimney enhancing the Cape Cod exterior.
Home Repair DOs and Donts
A compact guide covers patching surface cracks and holes with dampened plaster, smoothing patches, and step by step with wetting, undercutting edges, then filling and sanding. It warns against premature mixing and air exposure to plaster and urges sealing repairs with glue size or shellac to limit paint absorption.
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