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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1959
Page
15
The article argues storage space limits in modern homes and promotes the attic as an ideal repository for unused furniture and knickknacks. Associated Architects offers a front entry design named The Faylway featuring an open stair and a colonial mood.
The article discusses how two income households influence home design and upkeep. It highlights easier living spaces with labor saving features, luxury details like insulating siding, and a shift toward efficient private water systems. It covers Colonial Modern layouts, premium materials, and guidance from the National Water Well Association on reliable contractors and sizing water systems.
The St Marys School Parent-Teacher Unit organizes a bake sale after Masses on Apr 12 in the church hall and a Mar 19 dinner honoring the CYO basketball team. Cochairs are Mrs George Stupp and Mrs Edmund Ellis. Reverend Seikel will speak on birth control at an upcoming meeting.
Vincent Elementary School faculty staged a skit titled All Week in the Life of Mr and Mrs Vincent at the PTA meeting with participants Anna Wagner Sue Jean Cook Ladys Gentry Jane Freshwater Tom and Richard Kimbrough handling sound effects.
The item ties postwar price growth to a 1940 home cost of 7500 becoming a 19000 building price, noting a 17 year surge. It quotes the West Coast Lumbermen's Association on homes as inflation hedges and highlights features like wood paneling and built ins as buyer draws. A PTA update follows with carnival plans, district conference support, clothing drives, and early spring vacation dates.
St Barbara Circle of St Vine group welcomed new member Mrs Lillian Krugman during a church session at the Altus cent de Paul Church. A guest was introduced. games and prizes were shared with Mrs Helen Duland and Mrs Gladys Mihatic among prize recipients. Next meeting set for April at Mrs Ben Gill’s home.
Spring planning time urges yard owners to start with fences as the foundation. Weathered wood like Western red cedar or Douglas fir blends with shrubs and rocks, weathering to soft greys. Fence styles range from solid estate to boards and battens and decorative patterns, with shelves for pots possible. Sketch fence designs during late winter weekends to fit home and site.
The article describes easy home design using hardboard partitions to create privacy. It explains large 4x8 foot panels, methods for sliding and hanging dividers, and the use of perforated hardboard with cords to form suspended partitions. It highlights durability, ease of painting, nailing, and sawing for DIY room division.
Arvin Industries claims interior walls using a vinyl finish bonded to steel offer near indestructible, paint free panels. Tests at Indiana University in a residence hall lobby show less maintenance, only occasional wiping, and no color fading or staining. Panels install with standard carpentry tools and resist abrasion in high wear areas.
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