Moderately Priced Home Plans With Simple Elegant Details
A durable two story home design offers 28 by 24 feet footprint with 14200 cubic feet, four first floor rooms, two second floor bedrooms, seven closets, built in china closet, and storage under eaves. Features include brick veneer front, gable break, shutters, and a 19 by 10 foot garage with potential breeze way conversion for extra eating space. Plans available from the Herald-Mail Home Building Editor in Hagerstown Maryland.
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Herald-Mail
Hagerstown
Door fitting tip to prevent sticking
A practical instruction advises cutting a small gap around a door frame equal to the thickness of a five cent piece. This space helps the door hang properly and prevents sticking in the frame.
About one fifth of Americans Ways bingo
A brief note reports that roughly twenty percent of Americans engage with bingo games in various settings. It highlights social and recreational roles, noting leisure use across communities and potential for local events centered on bingo activities.
Simple Design Cuts Home Building Costs
Prospective builders can reduce costs by simple design and economical materials. Architects say basic soundness and attractiveness need not be sacrificed. Economies arise from straight-line roofs, few multi use rooms, uniform window and door sizes, and minimal waste materials. Durable options like oak flooring save time and waste while lasting the life of a house.
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Things To Avoid When Furnishing Your New House
Practical tips highlight common decorating missteps. Avoid clutter and overstuffed furniture, excessive heavy draperies, and too many uncertain-value pictures. Emphasize personal taste and meaningful objects to create a livable, expressive space.
Cleaning Flues Reduces Fire Danger This Fall
The article warns that chimney fires cause property damage each fall and winter. It recommends cleaning flues before heating season, ideally by a professional. If DIY, a method uses excelsior bricks and a rope to scrub soot from chimney walls, then remove via the cleanout door at the chimney base.
Plaster Drying Guidelines for Fresh Walls
The article advises letting new plaster walls dry for at least two months before decorating. It warns that painting green plaster can cause color spots and that if walls are papered, the paper may peel or discolor in places.
Record High 1.7 Million Graduate in America
About 1.7 million American students completed graduation, marking a record high. The milestone reflects growth in enrollment and completion across schools and colleges nationwide.
Public Favors Attached Garage
The article notes a shift to attached garages as cars became common. FHA officials say integrating the garage with the house improves convenience and accessibility, shortens driveways, and can enhance rear yard use and perceived house size via a covered passageway that may also serve as a porch when closed off as part of the home.
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Federal Housing Administration
FHA
Teen-agers Seek Colorful Rooms as Personal Living Spaces
Young people want their rooms to be more than bedrooms, combining living room vibes with color and imaginative furnishings. Floor up planning guides design with asphalt tile options, dark floors contrasting walls, and coordinated draperies. Girls favor pale blue walls with striped brown buff tile floors, while boys prefer tan tiles with dark borders, knotty pine walls, and dark green fabrics.
Color advice for repainting bedroom furniture and decor
Reader asks about repainting a green bed an white chest a walnut chest and a green bookcase and coordinating fabrics. Advice suggests antique flat finish for bed and chest walnut left as is bookcase painted peach to match walls. shades may mix parchment with silk or other types.
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