Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1926, Page 20

20 ROUTES TO MODEL BUILDING PROJECTS Automobile Directions 1o REAL ESTATE. ... THE EVENING BTAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, JULY 31, 19. DECORATOR APPLIES GOOD TASTE AND ART IN FURNISHING HOMES Design of House, Finances, Purpose of Fittings, Character of Residents and Other Factors In- volved in Proper Purchases. Various Houses Outlined I ¢ GENEVIEVE NENDRICRS. for Convenience. The routes to the vacious model home projec:s are as follows: No. 1. The - colonial stucco home erect- ed by L. E. Breuninger & Sons At Hemlock street, Thirteenth street and Alaska avenue, designed by Vie- tor Mindeleff, may be reached by go- ing directly out Sixteenth street to Alaska avehue just above Walter Reed Hospital, north on Alaska ave- nue to the intersection of the three dtreets, where the property is located. No. 2. To reach the W. C. & A. N. Miller property at the southwest corner of Hawthorne ~street and Forty-fourth place go west an Pennsvivania ave: nue to Twenty-second street, north on Twenty-sccona street to Massachu- setts avenue, northwest on Massachu- | setts avenue to Cathedral avenue, | west_on Cathedr: renue to. Forty fourth place, thence south on Forty. fourth place one block to Hawthorne street. The Miller house, designed by Delos Smith, of Georgian style, is to be built of brick No. 3. The Hedges & Middleton home, de. | signed by Robert Beresford, is of co- lonial type and is bullt of - stone. This house is located at Thirty-fifth | street and Massachusetts avenue. It | may - be reached by going west on Pennsylvania avenue to Twenty-sec- ond street, north on Twenty-second street to Massachusetts avenue, north- west on Massachusetts -avenue to Thirty-fifth street to the site. No. 4. The detathed frame house erect- | ed in Lee Heights, Va. by Ruby | Lee Minar was designed by ‘Ward Brown. .This is a typical Virsginia | style residence. To reach this prop- erty g0 west on Pennsylvania averiue to M street, west on M street to the Key Bridge, cross the bridge into Vir- ginia, turn to the right to the Lee Highway, proceed 2}z miles to Lee Heights. | No. 5. | The house erected in Wynnewood Park, Silver Spring, Md., by the Stambaugh Construction Co., of colonial style, designed by Percy C. Adams. This home may be reached by going directly north on Sixteenth | street to Al avenue, out Alaska | avenue to the District line, north on Georgia avenue known as Brookeville pike, thence | east on the Colesville pike to the site in Wynnewood Park No. 6. The Cafritz Construction Co. proj ect consists of a row of houses in varled designs, giving each one an {ndividuality all its own. These| houses were designed by Louls Juste- ment. They are on Decatur between Fourth and Fifth streets. To reach this site proceed northeast on Ver- | mont avenue to Floi avenue, continue mnorth on Florida avenue to Sherman avenue. out, Sherman avenue to New Hampshire ave- nue, turn northeast on New Hamp- shire avenue to G Circle, from | Grant Circle go nortis on Ilinois ave- | from insisting up tached nue to Sherman Circle, continue north An_outstandingly with open fireplace, library. Flemish oak. Butler light Kitchen. second floor. fixtured. Brick garage. present owner day evening. P PPIIIIIIIIRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIOIII FPPO0ROIIIPIPIIIOIIIIIIIIIIIII0IIIED eIttt ettt teteris A Sixteenth Street Home at a Tempting Price' 1704 Sixteenth Street —between' R and S Streets Interior Decorator. A beautiful house with correct pro- portions and good design does not just happen. It is the result of labor and thought. ing and planning no amount of good building will make a house that will be a credit to the community or the owner. Too often a decorator is called in to furnish a house that has been bad- 1y planned and is told to proceed to make it both comfortable and lovely for clients. When there has not been proper attention given to the design, 1o the wall spaces, to the window placement and window frames, to the lighting fixtures, and other essentials of the background, the decorator has a difficult problem, and must not only think of his or her own design, but must also correct the faults in the ar- chitectural design as well. A banker naturally hates to see his depositors invest money foolishly, and if he is given the opportunity will ad- vise how they might invest wisely for sure profits and no losses. A builder will if possible keep his client n the use of mate- rials that will not make for perma- nence. He .will naturally seek to guide his client to the selection of materials that are the best on the | market for price that his client al- {lows him. A conscientious architect will do evervthing is his power to see that the final plans adopted by his clients will be those which.will make an attractive, comfortable home of good design. One .of his difficulties will_ be in_keeping peoplé from insist- on Tllinois avenue to Decatur, east on Decatur to the site. No. 7. This group of colonial houses built by C. H. Small on West Vir: ginia avenue at Queen street north- east, designed by J. Wilbur Smith, may be reached by going east on K street to Eighth street northeast, north on Eighth street to Florida avenue, thence one block southeast on Florida avenue to West Virginia avenue, proceed on West Virginia ave- nue six blocks to the site on Queen street. No. 8. group, consisting of y Walter A. Park at Fifth designed -by The communit 14 houses, erected Dunigan in Marietta and Longfellow street: Gilbert L. Rodier, may be reached by goln; north on Sixteenth street to ‘olorado avenue, northeast on Colo ado avenue to Georgis avenue, then directly south to Longfellow street, east on Longfellow street to Fifth street, where property is located. These houses will be of the semi-de: and community group style, “three-ina.row"” type of Italian architeo and feature a houses embodying ture. No. 9. . Walter Vaughn houses, de- signed by W. H. I Fleming, at Thir- teenth and Upshur streets northeast, may be reached by going out Eley. enth street to Rhode Island avenue, Rhode Island avenue to First street, First street to Soldiers’ Home gate at Michigan avenue, Michigan avenue to Thirteenth _ street northeast, one square north on Thirteenth street to house. i X 00000000 0000000004000000000000000000000004000 attractive Home— of Colonial type—built exceptionally well —and finished elaborately. Ten large rooms—with reception hall, and finished for a The Dining Room has heavy beam ceiling and high paneled walls of solid ’s pantry and large, Inclosed back stairs to There are seven bedrooms, and sleep- ing porch. The Master Bedroom extends across the entire front, and has private lavatory. Both baths are tiled and well Floors are hardwood, the trim-is in ex- ceilent taste; lighting fixtures of ornate design; hot-water heat. ‘A condition affects the price— to the buyer’s advantage—the desires quick sale—uwith possession at once. Terms can be arranged to meet your idea. The Home will be open on Sunday for in- spection—from noon to dark. f view phone our office up to 9 p.m. any week- Or for private Deal With a Realtor 1415 K Street Main 4752 ‘Without careful design: | ing upon faddy notions in their at- tempt to make something different. The Jecorator, building on the work of these three, has the next problem, seeing constantly in the houses to which he or she 1s called for advice, turniture that has been badly bought, pieces that have not worn well, that are bad in design and that therefore have become obnoxious to their own ers, pieces that are out of keeping with the design of the room in which they are used, and not appropriate for the house in which they are placed. For all these reasons, these pieces have been tad investments, Often, too, it 1s found the clients have paid too much for the furniture. \ A great deal of the furnishing In this country is bought by young peo- ple just going to housekeeping, Many of them are buying furniture for the first time in their lives. They have a certain sum of money to spend, and proceed like babes in the wood. Sad to say, most of them have no plan to work toward, put buy one piece after another wfthout any idea of the relation of one to another and without considering the finished ef- fect of the room. If they are lucky in falling into the hands of a con- scientious, trained person, all will be well with them, but if they follow their own fancies and proceed in the flush of enthuslasm to buy without good, sound advice, they will pr ably have to admit within a years that they “did not know how they ever ¢ame to buy this piece or that"; that “it is terrible the way certain pieces have fallen to pieces and that they would give anything if they had bought someth; s instead.” The auction reoms filled with furnituce, that is. di ed only*too soon by hiese same young people as thelr taste has developed, and as they have learned what they really -need. to make their homes comfortable. How. much better if these same young people had bought wisely in the first place;-so that they might have enjoyed their furniture all the time, and .if they had not had to live with regrets as well as broken furniture. Also, how much better if they could retain their original purchases and not have to replace them by “new ones, selling the first at a-loss and -having to reinvest more money. Strives for Economy. A decorater, working as she does constantly in all pha home furnishing, knows what peo- ple. really need, and she also knows the best type of furniture to fill those needs. Also, a conscientious F | the best quality for the money which his or her clients have to spend. A decorator does not consider himself or ‘herself In any way successful if clients come but once, If clients can be given satisfactory plans to< ward which they can build, and if good ~investments can be made for them, they will come again as they have more. money to spend, and as they wish tb enlarge their furnish- ings, the decorator can then be sat- isfied. Good furniture, carefully bullt of well seasoned woods and pure:in de- sign, is always a real investment. This is proven by the antique furni ture that has come down to us today and which is highly prized by those who are able to have it. If our an- cestors had bought carelessly built and poor designed factory furniture, there would be very little valuable an- tigue furniture in America toda Luckily, during the first half centu of living in America there were. no factorfes where furniture could be turned out in a slipshod manner. Coples were painstakingly made of pleces coming from the master shops of England and Europe, and were made with all sincerity. Chairs were made of good wood properly treated. They were put together to stay, and they were built not just as so many chairs or tables, but they were made to be objects of beauty for enjoyable use. A far-seeing furniture company ad vises, “Buy your children’s heirlooms.” If these modern pleces of furniture are being built most carefully and of good wood, there is no reason why they cannot be highly prized by the descendants of their present owners in the same way that we treasure the furniture that our great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers had in their long ago homes. Victorian Era Scored. There was a time, most unhappy in the history of art, known as the Vic- torian era. During this period, and 0 years preceding it and 20 years following it; furniture was built large- ly with an idea of being different. - The factory system was just being built up in America and commercialism had struck home with full force. Whether it was the manufacturers who directed public taste to despise the old style which had been used so long .and to want their new products is an open question, and, lucky for the memories of tho: parted manufacture one that cannot be answered. Suffice it to say that furniture was built without rhyme or reason, the only idea being to have it different. Public taste stood this furniture as long as it could and then, of course, reacted violently against it in about 1900. As the result of the work of William Morris, an English designer, no longer were curlicues and carvings of grapes and human figures and, even worse, carvings with no design at all in order. Suddenly everything must be absolutely plain and square, abso lutely Spartan in feeling. While this so-called mission furniture was a thou- nd times better than the walnut hor- rors that preceded it, it was uncom- fortable, totally lacking in beauty, heavy and suitable for nothjng in the world except men's clubrooms or A =~ < railway stations, and not comfortable anywhere. B0 The reaction to this mission furni- ture has long since come about, and the tren@ of popular taste is again back to old designs in furniture. Everywhere one hears of period furniture and this poor word has in its turn been done to death. ‘There are a few manufacturers to- day who are wisely end honestly copying the best colonial pleces in America and England. More power to these few! May they and their honest works continue. One manu- facturer of reproductions has been nationally known as a collector of antique for 20 vears. He prophestes, and probably rightly, that his repro- ductions, magde as they are of the best materials true in design and "y best workmanship today, will be treasured as highly in future generations as the Colonial and Georglan pieces are in our day and age. Far too many manufacturers are flooding the market with pseudo “Italian renaissance dining _room suites,” with “Mary and William sets,” with ““Queen Anne parlor sets™ and the like. These high-sounding names are apt to lead the untrained buyer to purchasing furniture which is absolutely out of keeping with his house. Must Match House. In selecting' furniture for a house mary things must be considered. First of all, people must consider the type of house into which they will place their furnitur r too often we are apt to see a heavy Italian table in a living room suggesting early Colonial and a Spanish set of dining room furniture in a simple, modern dining room. If the exterior of the house suggests the Colonial, the furnishings within should do the same. One should not have -the ' feeling when crossing the threshold of suddenly having jumped from Colonial America to sixteenth century Italy, or Tudor England, or medieval Spain. If the house is medium sized and simple in design, the furniture within should be of the proper scale to be in proportion with the house itself. Big bulky pleces of furniture are as out of place in medium sized houses as they are uncomfortable to use in them. Yet, how often de we enter rooms that have dining room sets that are far too large in design for the room, and that are only too often inappropriate in design. Both the scale and the type of the house must be borne in mind by the pur- chaser of furniture. Not only should one consider the appropriateness of the furniture in connection with the design and size of the house, but also one should remem- ber that the furnishings should be selected In accordance with the finan- cial status of the owner. The deplor- able characteristic of some Americans to “make a splurge” often leads peo- ple to use furnishings that belong in far richer homes then they can af- ford. 1In a futile attempt “to make an effect,” taffeta curtains that are. ex- pensive both in original cost and be- cause they do not wear, and uphol- stered pleces covered in heavy, gaudy brocades and other materials are used by those who do not realize how much more attractive their home | "#a theFire Department was herein 10 minutes” “Actually it was only ten minutes rrom the time Mrs. Jones-discov- ered the fire in the basement until the firemen were in the house. Flarnes were bursting through all the rooms. And look at their house now, Jim! It’s just a wreck! Enough to frighten anyone.” That is one of the worst features of ordinary lath construction. It getually feeds the flames. Time and again the fire bursts through partitions in four minutes—before the fire department can possibly get there. Fortunate are the people who are able to get out alive. Don’t build a home as a fire trap for your family! Fire-safe con- struction is nof only practicable, but inexpensive. Ordinary frame construction together with Better Plastering on metal lath will make a home or apariment fire-safe. It is an actual fact that metal lath construction will withstand fire for one hour—plenty of time for gle fire department to extinguish the blaze. ) " You may not have thought of a plastering contractor as the man who could safeguard your house against fire, but The National Board of Fire Underwriters has actually proved this a fact. Any of the Better Plastering Contractors will be glad to explain modern fire- _safe construction to you and also to supply a book on the subject. Approved and Recommended by Plastering Contractors of Washington Tie NatioNnaL Councir: FOR BETTER PLASTERING 819 Madison Square Building, Chicago, Ill. o —ON M _7’-' 4 R S - .’Q:Q:Q 2Pe®. o 0 0o *e%0 e S CoC) S D t:o:o’ >l LATH % oty 2 CICICICICTI would be if they would use the simple mater| nd plain coverings that are well within the reach of their pocket- books. A Purpose Is Problem. The purpose to which the furniture is to be put is another of the very Im portant things to consider in its selec tion. In selecting living room furni- ture one must consider what are the actual needs to wkhich the room will be put. In it one would expect to find comfort for reading or study and for sociability, One should therefore have comfortable chairs, a sofa for rest, adequaté shelves. or cascs for books, plenty of tables to hold lamps and the essential accessories for reading and smoking, and plenty of lamps, well placed, so that more than one person car. enjoy reading at the same time. Having decided just what will be needed, one :nust next study hi house and remember that his furni- ture must be more or less fixed by the size and shape of the openings. For instance, if a sofa is to be selected, the possible location of it must b sidered. "If there {s room for a six- foot sofa without crowding in the place which séems best suited for a sofa, then it is a six-foot sofa that should be purchased and not a seven- foot #ofa. If there is a_space by the window for a nice, comfortable chair for good reading in the day time, the chair should be selected with some thought as to the size of the floor space in that corner. Too often people shop for farniture | ——and only oo often on sales days | have at last found want for some particular spot, something that is appropriate hoth as to design._and size and color or cov- ering, but because it is a chair or a table or a sofa that appears to be a bargain. When furniture is hought in this way, without consideration for the balance of the furnishings in the room, there can, of course, ba no har- mony when it is all assembled. Besides the appropriateness of the turniture, andithe use to which it will be put, one must consider the charac- ter of the people who are to use the turniture. For example, what would be comfortable and pleasing to an elderly couple of quiet and studious Papering—Painting—Awnings There 1s no Job you want done too small for us to bandle. Awnings carefully made and reconditionsd. Estimates . cheerfully riven—reasonable prices. CORNELL WALL PAPER CO. 414 13th St. N.W. Main 5373-5374 Ideal Building Sites and Cozy Modern Cottages For Sale Fros. Clreular on Reduest BAUMAN & HEINZMAN 1504 H St. N. W. con- tastes would not be equally pleasing to a frivilois voung couple whose thoughts are far from conservative. Likewise, the pieces of furniture to be used especially by women differ some- what from those used b is_true of chairs, 5 Furniture must next be selectsd, not only because it is comfortable, or be- cause it is appropriate, nor because it is within one’s means, or because it i suitable to the particular which it is to be used, is attractive and ple son who will own it. The. psycholog. ical effect of living with the things we like or of having to live with colors and pieces of furniture that we dislike | cannot be disputed. A decorator often meets situations 1fie this. We choose our fr those who are attr with whom we enjoy being. uld be quite as eareful ih choosi the mute friends in our hou: of furniture with which we ng to the per | with g A pecullarity of Japanese literature is said to be that no self-respecting Japanese novelist ever leaves a. single character alive at the- end of his book. REAL: ‘ESTATE! § 2 : | % = PUBLIC SOON TO SEE NEW DETACHED HOWi: | Wesley Heights House in. Model Exhibit Will Be Fully Furnishes by Erd of Week. The second lars detached houses b homes demonstratt The Star will be rdady for inspection ' by latter week the . the hette kouse is streef A N Smith. It of brick designed the i cont of the surrounding g ‘The property also been scaped. to fit e - Peanuts are used for the manufa ture of artificial milk, butter, oils, face cream, face powder, ink. and woo stain ? Ask for Descriptive Booklet—It's Worth Looking Into. live! the new owner. 706 Colorado Bldg. R A N e N e e N N N O e e T R NANNY. FOR convenience and refine- ment, Shepherd Park is unsur- passed.” The unusual homes now being built here represent the acme of home-building excellence. Each dwelling of individual beauty harmonizes perfectly with its sur- roundings. See Shepherd Park to- day—it’s the place vou'll want te The Star Model Home in Shep- herd Park has been sold. tomorrow it will be occupied by Drive out 16th Street to Alaska Avenue— on to 13th Street & PBreuninger S Sons Realtors Shepherd Park Will Be a Community of Over 200 Ideal Homes After See it today! Main 6140 AT TEAEAAAELAVEAALEAAAL LT ALALAAAE AR AL AL AL AR RERAANSAENARNR S SR SN NN N R AR A s 5 Ruby Lee Minar Star “Model ‘Home The Star Model Home demonstra- tion would ‘be far from complete without such an ideal example of Colonial architecture Lee Minar house now reaching com- pletion at Lee Heights, The house was designed by Ward Brown. And it should the first step in the planning was - a thorough study of the ground it was to occupy. The result of such attention to the artistic possibili- ties has been the achievement ' of perfect harmony between grounds. To the lover of the Virginia Colonial home this six- room, frame, detached model resi- dence will make a strong appeal. " Its old-fashioned porch almost flush equipped with Water -Heaters as the Ruby Va. be said that house and true type of plans. with the ground; its enclosed.gar- den and pleasing terraces; its open fireplaces in living-room and master bedroom; its roofed side porch and uncovered entrance porch—it is these fine touches which cast the spell of Colonial times over even the casual visitor. And without in any way destroy- ing this spirit of the charm of past years, modern convenience has been made an important part of this home. To fulfill the desire for perfect hot water service, it was only natural that the Welsbach Water Heater was made an integral part of the WELSBACH COMPANY '439-7th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. AUTOMATIC STORAGE GAS WATER HEATERS . MORE THAN HALF OF ALL STAR MODEL HOMES ARE EQUIPPED WITH WELSBACH WATER HEATERS