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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1936
Page
2
Adults claim the playroom trend as they convert attic or basement space into a dedicated area for children. Simple washable floors and child friendly colors are suggested, with composition wall coverings and easy designs for a practical kids play space.
A kitchen corner setup with a dressing table aids the housewife who does her own work. Keep handy items like hand lotion and burn salve for bruises and cuts to provide instant aid in everyday home care.
The piece weighs pros and cons of formal versus naturalistic planting for small city or suburban lots. It advises coordinating garden design with surroundings, house style, and sun exposure, favoring balanced layouts, and suggests a vegetable garden for nearby vacant lots. It promotes involving children to plan and tend their own plots.
Many homes built in the last two decades have usable attic space. Modernizing attics creates recreation rooms or extra bedrooms with affordable wall and floor coverings. Plans and materials yield attractive effects, with insured National Housing Act loans repaid over up to five years.
A door serves as the gateway and keynote of home decor. Homeowners seek distinctive touches and architects emphasize the doorway. Blue doors gain popularity, while white houses feature orange doors edged in black for striking contrast.
An article discusses several closet lighting options including a ceiling pull chain light, an outer switch light with a red indicator, a door switch that auto turns off, and a timer light. It warns of risks like leaving lights burning, ajar doors, and potential high bills, suggesting the timer as a modern safeguard, though occasional inconvenience remains.
A historical note describes a roomy enameled iron bath fixture that merges a bathtub with a large basin, dressing table, and storage. It features a knee hole for close seating, a connected lavatory area, a side cabinet, and a mirror shelf. The design allows space for a screen and includes a wire mesh option for fire curtains. The Federal Housing Administration funds loans via private lenders under the National Housing Act. The United States contains 100 matchmakers, 30 in New York City.
The piece discusses kitchen layout aims for modernisation, stressing compact space efficiency, wall-mounted fixtures, and two doors plus a possible cellar access. It advocates placing work areas and shelves for easy reach, avoiding glare from wine storage above sinks, and ensuring smooth workflow from prep to cleanup to avoid backtracking.
Defective flues are blamed for Mary’s fire losses as furnace heat escaped and was not kept under control. The article urges flue cleaning and inspection and cautions against letting curtains, matches, and oily rags accumulate combustible materials. It notes ignorance as a common fire trigger and urges strict storage and handling of flammable items.
Keley California. Adobe buildings in the state are cataloged by Prof. G W Hea dey of the University of California. By planting seeds from these ruins he identifies the plants that grew where they were built. American towns borrow names from English places. There are 13 Bristols 13 Oxfords 0 Pamouthe 7 Works 7 Baths and more.
The article notes a growing trend to remove front porches in exterior modernization. It highlights roof treatments and weather boarding as common updates. It mentions a long history of political figures and monuments as context, including the autographed Roosevelt photo and Lenin’s mausoleum in Red Square.
A reader asks about avoiding tropical styling and harmonizing with neighbors. The column covers reducing noise from plumbing and toilets, proper traps on fixtures, fixing sagging gutters, and causes of floor settlement with guidance to check supports foundations and piers, or reset baseboard molding after joist shrinkage.
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