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10 THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS, SATURDAY, AUG. 4, 1934. All Kinds of Fuels Are Handled by Automatic Equipment in Residence Complete Home on First Floor of Two-Story Dwelling Made Possible by Clever Planning EXPLAIN STEPS FOR REVIVAL OF HOME BUILDING -4 Housing Act Landed as "Most Constructive 'Legislation" In Magazine Article. cellar proper. The cellar etalrway lands on the first floor in the hallway between the living room and the breakfast room, or dinette.

The ability to add to an existing house without destroying its architectural values is a worth while asset to have. The added bedroom to this house provides also an extra bah room with a shower stall Instead of a tub. The front, side window in the existing larger bedroom Is made over into a door which opens to make entrance to a closet at the side of the chimney. Downstairs, the future addKion calls for the making of a hall across the front of the existing dining room." FYench doors lead Into the new living room. The chimney is so constructed that a fireplace Is provided In the added living room.

Unil the addition is built, the fireplace opening is closed with a veneer of masonry. Many (Jood Buys. After three years of depression In prices and values it may well be assumed that real estate values, on the average, are, to say the least, not Inflated. One's money may be expected secure sound value in present markets. Not for some time have there been available art advantageous buys in the real estate field as this season.

Politically, bur government, and economically, big business and banking, are finally and really interested in the small home-owner. Much credit, on very fair terms, is leing offered family who desires to establish a home for itself. der, and that is to be sure the people installing the new ilant guarantee sufficient operation of the new furnace with the old ducts, and when new ducts are used, too. It not difficult to test the efficiency a new heating or air conditioning plant. Thermometers and humidity gauges placed in different rooms and at different elevations rooms will plainly show how the plant 'is functioning as far as doing: a eood job in your house is concerned.

The humidity gauges are available in forms similar to thermometers or clocks. A new type on the market has a hand pointing exactly to what the relative humidity and also shows what it should under different conditions. The types to choose from, in the home-heating field, include oil burners, self-contained furnaces burning oil. gas, electricity and different kinds of coal. In the coal types it is possible to have automatic stokers.

In many cases, where the costs of fuel dictate using one or another in preference the rest. Just as satisfactory results can be obtained in the type you choose as in any other. A modern house calls for automatic lr I I Modernizer Offered Wide Choice of Materials For Improving Residence With a good buy In land, and a fair financial deal, ownership of a home, will be entirely successful if the house itself is well designed and well built. STOP THAT LEAKY ROOF! with LUCAS Roof-Tight Cement Lasts Longer Costs Leg II TDCD PAINT AND li XV Li.rrr.K (o. 1702 3rd Ave.

Phone K. 1. 4924 How to Secure Plans Of Homes Shown Here Complete working drawings of house plans appearing in the buiLdgrs' section of The Argus can be obtained by sending $1 to the Home Features Service at No. 25, East Jackson boulevard, Chicago. Payment should be made by check or money order.

Part of Existing Heating Plant Can Be Used in Modernizing. In most American localities, modernizing problems include the heating plant Troducts on the market Include furnaces and boilers that handlo all kinds fuelr. and In completely automatic methods, as far as is practicable. The modern way of living calls for automatic in the home. The degree to which heating plants may be entirely automatic depends upon the kind of fuel you desire to burn, and in some cases the type of heating desired.

In a modernizing Job there is often opportunity to use parts of the existing heating equipment with the new installation being ma.de. For instance, when an old, warm air furnace is being replaced, air conditioning warm air plant, the existing air ducts can often be used. If so, the necessity of tearing walls open may be more or less entirely avoided, and the cost thereby kept down. A warning here is not out of or EQUIPMENT OF HOME FIGURED AS IMPORTANT Modern Conveniences. Bather Than Architectural Attractiveness, Determine Value.

In the general field of remodeling and modernizing, the part architecture plays is not as important as the subject, of equipment. By equipment is meant the kinds of rooms and how they are equipped, the kinds of windows and doors and how they are equipped, the water system, heating or air conditioning, wiring and arrangement of rooms and fixtures or equipment in them. Architecture is the main reaison why many houses now command such unfavorable prices, but no house that is arhltecturally perfect but does not have modern equipment and conveniences will command a good price. While, on the other hand, many houses not so attractive from the architectural standpoint but that have at the Fame time up to date equipment and all that goes with it, will demand firt class prices. Interior Changes Essential.

From the outside viewpoint, modernizing should. If possible, include at least the changing of perhaps the most unattractive feature of the house architecturally. Hut inside changes that make it modern are essential. Some of the following features will help you to accomplish your modernizing goal. There are available from retail lumber dealers very attractive knock-down sets of shelving and cabinets.

These pieces of equipment are made In various shapes and sizes to fit! into almost any available spacej you may have in your house. The kitchen and store room, or basement, are particularly vulnerable places for this type of equipment. The joints are such that they fit together without nails screws, and the cabinets can be set up by experienced persons. The sets are handled in individual bundles packed in cartons. Late Radiators Popular.

Modernizing your present radiator heating system calls for appreciation of the newer types of radiators. There are available cast iron radiators piade with fins that produce more efficiency and take much less space. They can be built into any ordinary wall with little difficulty, or they can be used with a metal radiator cover that is TIME TO Her Is the morning and Per qt. $1.00 14 Beautiful I 1 AOUICK IVORY 1 I Is of in is. be to is of Wiring Repairing Installation Leithner Weishar Uls at Tl Rl 1581 HAVE YOU SEENT WITH IOATINO POWER FOB PE'A'lS AND PRICES Telephone Rock Island 3181 Save Your Cusses 0 repairs walks and dritevtajs.

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600 (my- 1 1 1 i si decorative and useful. Modern heating and air conditioning will become household necessities before long. The obvious advantage of increased liability and increased resale value more than compensate the expenditure. Vary Materials Without Losing Desired Effect If care is exercised in the choice of materials, modern buildings may use several different kinds to produce harmonious effects. Stone masonry and a thatched roof go very well together.

And, too, the addition of wings to the main structure may be done in wood, as if, as ip the case in old houses, the additions were made at a later date. As an example a certain house designed with this method of building in mind. The living room wing is an added feature that could, course, be built at the time the rest of the house is erected. A hall Is arranged for at he end of the larger bedroom, to connect the "future" owner's room with the upstairs hall. May AtoI(I Kxraiation.

The topography of many huilding lots is such that a basement garage, with a ground-level entrance, can easily be lncorporaed in the plan without extra excavating. In this case there is an outside stairway leading to the kitchen door, and flagstone steps could circle the corner of the house to the front entrance. There can also be another access to the house by having a doorway from the garage to the WHERE INSURANCE 19 A HI SINKSS NOT A SIHEI.INU MARCUS S. BROUGH Crnund Floor No. 4 Stale Rank Bid.

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60c 35c 20c Colors a nd Black and White. Your Guarantee of Quality l'hone R. I. 179t It's Graphically- Called With Future at Well as A house with a future as well As a past," graphically describes this little home, which has been planned especially lor the family building on a restricted budget or for the family with an eye to future needs. This desirable feature Is achieved through the location of a complete home on the first floor of a two-tory dwelling.

Under such a program, the upace may be left unfinished for the time belnst. but offers tho possibility of adding two more large bed rooms and lavatory or bath when necessity demands. The Inspiration for this little home comes from the south Of England and brings with it all the picturesqueness and charm for which this district noted. Its low roof lines, broken by dormers and chimney gable, serve to hold it snugly to the ground of which it seems an integral part gives the impression of much greater, size than oisually is found la a Bouse so compact. Itemember Kaln Barrel.

The working drawings show the xterior walls to be of brick, though stucco on frame construction is perfectly permissible and In keeping with the design, if common brick is used, it should be left uhpainted, a3 the French liberality -with a paint brush found little favor with their more sedate English cousins. Sturdy timbering, filled in between with brick laid at random enlivens the entrance front, and the patterned trick-work of the chimney adds increased interest. Don't forget the Tain barrel it belongs. So much for the now let's study the interior. From the tiny, paved entrance court surrounded by a neatly clipped hedge of privet we pass through a deeply recessed doorway and find ourselves in entrance hall, with walls of paneled pine and ceiling of plaster with hand-hewn supporting beams.

As we deposit our coats in the convenient closet, we notice closet door as well as the otherl two doors of the hall, are completely hidden in the paneling, giving unbroken wall surface and a The living room we find to be vpacious, and at on end, we notice the flrenlace with its flanking cfiaeB for books and cupboards for ftrewbod and odds and ends. At the other end. the dining nook draws itself into a corner, and while it in a part of the living room: itself, it nevertheless has a certain feeling of seclusion. Open face corner cupboards provide the opportunity of displaying choice bits of china and glass. Kitchen Is Convenient.

The kitchen, while small, is conveniently arranged for the saving of steps and labor, and has sufficient cupboard piace to take care of any requirements, with upecial provision for brooms and cleaning equipment. The fiilly excavated basement contains in addition to the heater and fuel storage space, a laundry and drying' room, a storage closet for fruits and vegetables and general storage space. Two downstairs bedrooms, sufficient for the smaller family, with adjoining bath and linen storage pace open off the entrance hall and combine privacy with accessibility. The floors and wood trim should be of oak. stained very dark and waxed.

The kitchen and bath may be finished in the usual manner With paint or enamel. The plaster walls in these rooms may be painted to. match, the balance of the plaster walls should he of sand float finish with no attempts toward exaggerated texture. South wark is London's most crowded borough; it contains 151 persons to the acre. Building Service Architects CERVIN STIIHR-Safety Building.

Bock, Island. Telephone Rock Island 63. DENJ. A. HORN Registered architect.

506 Rock Island Bank building. Building Material HOCK SAND A GRAVEL gravel, Portland cement, lime. etc. 118 20th St. 1 Telephone R.

I. 605. Contractors General RANDALL CONSTRUCTION CO. General contracting, remodeling, building all kinds. 6th Are.

and 11th St. R. I. 6S60. Lumber DTMOCK GOULD CO.

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4. The national housing act Is the most constructive piece of legislation to promote economic recovery that has been enacted during the depression," declares Bernard L. Johnson, editor of the American Builder, who has Just had a series of conferences in Washington with James A. Moffett, federal housing administrator, and other officers of the new housing administration. "In order, however, to make it effective, it is important that every prospective home builder as well as home owner bhould become well informed of its possibilities.

"The men who must do the most and inform themselves best on how to get the most out of the national home repair and building campaign now being started are contractors, building material dealers and others directly concerned with home building, assisted by local newspapers. The press can do a job of major importance in informing the public on opportunities for home improvements now available." "The tremendous decline in expenditures for home building from an annual ayerage of a year to less than $200,000,000 in 1931 and 1932 was a major cause of depression and unemployment," said Mr. Johnson. "Stimulation of home building and repairs by the housing act will eventually give employment to 5,000,000 men directly or indirectly dependent on building for their livelihood. Home building is a local industry, and the outstanding benefit of the housing act is that it will put men to work in their own home towns at their old Jobs, and will give business to local contractors, lumber dealers, hardware stores, electrical and supply shops and other local businesses.

How to Get Building Money. "Local building men, especially contractors, carpenters and builders, will play an especially important part in getting home repairs under way quickly. The first step to be taken by people who want to fix up their homes is to get an estimate or job proposal from their local contractor or builder. "The sooner the home owner starts planning his repairs and improvements, or his new home, the sooner he will be able to get the money to be supplied at low cost for his work. "While the details are not fully worked out, the following steps are suKgested for those who wish to get quick action on home iniprove-ments "1.

Consult your local contractor about the work you have in mind and get a bid or job proposal from him outlining the work and stating the total price. "2. On reverse of contractor's job proposal hcet, give credit statement which can be taken either by home owner-or contractor to local bank or lending institution for approval. Job can then etart. "3.

When work is completed by contractor, owner signs certificate of completion, which enables contractor to collect payment from lending institution. Owner pays lending institution on monthly installments, using a coupon book, at 5 per cent interest. Loans Will Begin Soon. "The government has given the building industry a powerful weapon -for national recovery, and it is now up to local towns and local building interests to carry on. Rebuild America drives will soon be started in thousands of communities under the direction of local building interests.

"The administration of the housing act is in the hands of conservative, practical men who know thg problems of the building industry. Malhinery is well planned and set up for Jmmediate action. It is expected that loans will be made soon and a large volume of work will be under way before fall. Probably from one and a half to two billion dollars' of home repair and modernizing work alone will be performed in the next 18 months. "Many thousands of contractors, building supply men and other building men are already out among prospective home owners planning the details of Jobs to go ahead aa soon as the money Is supplied.

Waterproof Fabrics Are Popular for Book Binding Modern housewives are acquainted with the advantages offered in recent bookbindings, which permit washing. These are of lacquered fabrics and withstand hard wear, the Insect proof and stain proof. Many books which are cherished because of their associations arc being rebound in this new waterproof fabric. Ur.SltiA LIGHTING FIXTURES Electric Construction Co. Yon Phono for Ci We'll Wlro for Yoa S.

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I. 136fl 3 I I IH IL TW I i Lj I Y-ujft jWWII 11 Variety of Ideas and Methods Available for Home Owner. There is a great deal of personal satisfaction to be had by the family that does a modernizing job on its own house. One of the most interesting parts of this satisfaction is the opportunity to choose from a wide range of materials just the exact one which fits the situation, taste and pocket-book. The newer ideas in home building are forcingr'onto the market a variety of ideas and methods which of necessity demand new materials.

Some of the pro-fabricated housing ideas are bound to be successful, and it seems much of their success will depend upon the availability of the-se new things to make their pre-fnbrication methods of building operate in the right fashion. For instance, the bath rooms and kitchens of modernized houses have available, among other materials, a vitreous: -substance that is often called structural glass. The surface of this material is un-nbsorbent and acid proof. Any color Is available. It will never stain crack of craze, grow dull or absorb odors.

A mere wiping with a damp cloth cleans it perfectly. A wainscoting in a bath room of this material, in a gleaming black or opaque white, can bo had put on right over old walls. Adtlse New Floors. New floors are often in order before the modernizing job is done. So ninny new kinds of flooring materials have come onto the market that it a joy to contemplate making one's choice.

The wood blocks, and blocks made of wood fiber, and blocks or tiles made of all sorts of composition materials, as well as factory-finished wood flooring offer great possibilities. Many of the products go down on the existing or sub-floor in a layer of mastic or stiekum. Sometimes a layer of flooring felt is used also. Close-grained hardwoods are made to take plain colors, even black, for flooring. And many of the latest linoleums are put out in plain colors.

It is wise to avoid the imitation of kind of material with another. For instance, why imitate a wood or tile floor with linoleum? Why not use linoleum as such, not make be lieve it is something else. Oftentimes the material doing the imitating is really better itself than the one imitated, and Materials Cleaners MODEL CLEANERS A special department for cleaninc curtains and drapes. Tel. R.

I. 747. Insurance H. H. CLEAVELAND AGENCY Every type of protection for tho home.

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A complete roofing service, including residential and built-up roofs for commercial buildings. Estimates given without obligation. Telephone R. I. 1550.

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2321 3rd Ave. The New Low Cost DECORATION It is called Nu-Wood Bevel-Lap Tile. It is made of clean wood fiber and has the soft natural wood tones. It is laid on your old wall and ceiling, right over the old decoration. It makes no muss when put on.

It cost very little and saves all future decorating expense. But it docs more than decorate it insulates against heat and cold and deadens sound. Ask to see our sample panels of Nu-Wood Tile. Available in various sizes and shades and two surfaces, rough mat and smooth, so that almost innumerable pattern variations arc possible. Get an estimate on redecorating your library, den or living room this new and lasting way.

ROCK ISLAND LUMBER ROOM CAN LOOK LARGER BY USE OF RIGHT COLOR Tricks of Perorating Trade Prove Successful in Number of Present Keshlences. If rooms had voices and could send them out in a beseeching wall we're sure there would be a chorus of "Help! Help!" from the small one. Large interiors are much easier to furnish, as almost every one knows, than the little living room of shoo box size so often found in the city apartment or suburban or village cottage or bungalow. It's a problem to create a fcelinj? of space and serenity in cramped quarters with walls cut up by doors and windows, but It can be done. There are tricks of the decorating trade that have proved most successful in a great number of homes.

Illusion of Space. First of all, avoid using too many colors in your color scheme. Two or three at the most are befit. Since light tones increase the apparent size of a walls of a clear, light color are desirable. If wallpaper is chosen, get one with no pattern or with a small one.

A large, splashy design will make the walls seem to march right into the room, instead of recede. This rule holds true of the window draperies, also. They should be of the same color (deeper shade) as the walls. Or they may be another contrasting tone, in which case the rug can be of the same color, a trifle deeper. The less fussy the window draperies in the small room, the better.

Avoid frilly ruffles, tie backs and valances. Let them hang in straight rich folds. These long, vertical lines tend to make the room look higher. You can dispense with glass curtains if you wish. Low felling Is Best.

If elip covers protect nie furniture it is best to choose fabrics that are neutral in effect, or to repeat the color of the walls or the draperies. The room will appear even smaller if a large, floral glazed chintz with a box plaited ruffle edging covers the sofa or a couplo of chairs. But a solid color, or striped, or tiny figured linen or chintz will improve rather than detract from Its beauty. A little room with a high celling appears smaller than the ame Interior with a low ceiling. Therefore, if yours has a lofty dome why not "bring' it down" by painting it a dark color? A deep blue or gray will surely do this.

Lamp shades should all be of the same color to create an effect of unity and to avoid a lot of splasher that hit one In the eye on entering. This holds true to decorative pillow also. Lend Depth. You can accomplish wonders in furniture arrangement if you'll bear in mind that pieces placed so that they follow the lines of the room, rather than cross them slantwise, make for a pleasant atmosphere. A sofa, or secretary desk, or table moved across a corner is not In agreement with these lines and "chops up" the space into an even more cluttered area.

Mirrors and the rlfsht accessories lend a helping hand to the small room. The former lend depth; they give you a vista that can be likened to that afforded by a window; the latter when carefully chosen and sparingly used bring an interior up to date, lending it a flair. MFG. CO. II PARIDON WALLPAPER CO.

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