Evening Star Newspaper, November 19, 1927, Page 19

REAL ESTATE. FURNISHING THE HOME Conducted for The Star BY ELIZABETH STETSON AND GENEVIEVE HENDRICKS Left—Present plan of library of furnita » Desk; 2, 6, small table; 7, upholstered chair: 10, side chair; 11, bookcase: follows: A, new pieces added:; A of local table for magazines; A-1, small table. aste basket; 3, desk chair; 4, side chair; 5, tabl X, lamps. home, with the following arrangement ; 8, radio cabinet; 9, upholstered chai Right—Suggested changes, as -1, window shelf; A-2, sofa; A-3, low | The Transformation of a Library BY GENEVIEVE HENDRICKS. A reader who does us the honor of reading this column begs me to help her make something out of her library which she claiins now is “impossible.” She says she has done all she can do and that it the most unattractive and most un- | comfortable room in her house. So| this is what I would do if I were #he. Her libra lighted by a broad window at one end. Several doors cut into the wall space and add to her problem. All of the furniture is placed along one wall | with the exception of the book shelves | which occupy almost the entire lensth of the opposite wall. ®The walls are papered in a tan-colored paper and the woodwork is brown. Three small Oriental rugs are thrown on the floor in diagonal lines which bear no re- Jation to the architectural outlines of | the room. | The Chief Problem. | To her the chief problem seems to | be that she cannot find space in her | room for a small sofa. Also she wishes another tomfortable chair but | sh feels there is no room for it. Her library table is too small to hold her | magazines and lamp and she can not figure out where she might put a larger one. Also the only spot she has found for her radio is most in- convenient. What to do to make this room o end inviting as well as comfortable ®he complains_ bitterly about it, ‘s ing that as it is, there is no light for reading, that you have to carry your book way across the room to put it on the table, that the radio is not accessible, and that the room is other- ‘wise beyond the pale. Now to make the room assume an entirely different aspect. Surely, the most important thing to do is to re- locate_the furniture and plan for the sofa. Why not place the sofa parallel to the window and facing into the room? This will allow light from the window to flood the lounger's page. Back of the sofa and underneath the window is a rather broad radiator. Let us build in a_simple shelf extend- ing the width of the window and com- inz out to the back of the sofa. This ¢ is a long, narrow room | —second to none in point of +—these beautifully fin- ished all-brick homes the exclusive upper 1 St. residential faithfully. | will provide a ha place for a few book: well as place for potted nts which will give cheer to the om. At one end of the sofa, close into the corner is just enough space for the radio case. Here a person might sit on the sofa and work the radio dials. And how about moving the floor lamp from its inconvenient place along the opposite wall to the other end of the sofa? There it will stand and serve. 1 would place the other floor lamp at one end of the radio o that it might throw light upon the sofa, the big chair which we will place close to this end of the sofa, and also throw light on the radio box. Move the desk which fills the cor- ner by the window and which is never used, except at night, further along the wall toward the inner door and leave the space near the window for the chair and sofa. The square table jutting out so far into the room takes up far too much width in so narrow a room. Let us exchange it for a narrower, longer table and place it directly in front of the bookeases, where, being on rollers, it can easily be moved if you wish to get at the books directly be- hind it. Here it offers a very con- venient spot for depositing ~books taken from the hook shelves. Also it will hold a table lamp, which will shed its light into the book shelves, as well as over the shoulder of the person who might read in the com- fortable chalr which we might place at one end of it toward the window. So much for the changes which comfort and convenience demand. Our next concern is to make the room attractive in color and design. To correct the spotty appearance of the floor and to give a sense of added space to the room, I would move the three small rugs into the hall which needs them and cover the floor with a large plain carpet of soft green to extend to within a_foot of the walls, which long ago I would have retinted a yellow cream, with the woodwork slightly darker. Color and Design. Tet us take down the heavy white and put up sheer marquisette beige-colored ones that give a soft glow of color and cut out the mini- mum of light. And then for color and design let us hang chintz cur- tains with a gay design in soft greens and tones of orange. This same ndy as < construction! i stimulate winter construction. *pc THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, SALE OF SOFTW00DS ADVERTISING CREDITED BELOW PRODUCTION| FOR HOME-BUYING GAINS American Lumberman Reports| Campaigns Cited as Large Factor Business of Mills on Scale Noted Last Year. Demand for softwoods is normally | below production at this season, and | householders realize to the full just the mills are selling as large a | what have been the results, as affect portion of their cut as they did last | home ownership, of the g adve fall, the American Lumberman re- | tising campaigns of the large ma- Both softwood and hardwoc ARSIt e TaNt 70 facturers, however, that the satisfied with' present retur | taste 18 prices have been low and GHiCHn. 18 e | being bettered all along the line, but Some of the leading authoritic that the underlying cause is largely Dulining ipredict thnt itite geners | result of advertising is less gen- ening of prices on materials etloidy B he sincerity of the type of adver- sing which sceks to raise home ownership cannot be disputed, for the mple reason that the manufacturer’ aims and that of the home owner a the same. Both may in Vast Promotion of Ownership. ing especially to the decline in st tural steel, 3ut Jumbermen are scarcely meetin their costs at present, and larger ve ume at current prices would not very attractive to them; the general opinion heing that there will be ex- tensive shutdowns. 1In the highland region of the re California, and Northeast, operations are rapidly be ing curtailed, as is usual at this time of year, while rains have caused numerous small pine mills in the South and Southeast to bring an end to their year's operations. Small Southern and West Coast mills have thrown their remai market, and final d will remove a bearish influence quotations. Retailing in the South and Middle West have found their. s lated by the good weather of recent weeks, but they are disinclined to buy more lumber than is needed to fill orders, as inventory time is quite close. It ‘is not believed that the di trous floods in New England will | create much demand for lumber while severe weather prevents extensive out- door work. But the catastrophe in the | ortheast will help focus national attention on river control work, for | the Central South is still suffering from | the ravages of the M ippi, and the rich Imperial Valley of California is constantly menaced by the Colorado River. In Somerset .. BRICK PLANTS CLOSE. Large Number of 158 Reporting| Suspend for Season. coming of extensive highway The brick industry has begun its annual hibernating process, Out of 158 plants reporting for the past month one-third are closed down for the season. A slight falling off in construction, more than weather con- ditions, is responsible for the early closing of many plants, a monthl digest of the brick industry shows. The stocks of burned brick on hand are large. Estimating the total from the figures given in the reports be- low it is probable that there are a hillion burned brick on the yards of the plants at the beginning of - vember. Orders on the books are not unsatisfactory, although slightly below the mark of September 1. In some of the Jarger building cen- ters/there is already a pick-up in the volume of construction since the Sep- tember slump. T is notable in Chicago, where de ries of bri October show a considerable incre over the previous month. 7 rooms; handsome bath; Out Wisconsin Avenue, Somerset at Dorsett A%enue, Avenue, one land Avenue. Builders chintz we can use again in the room as a slip cover for the comfortable chalr by the book shelves. If we cover the sofa in green deeper than the rug and add a few pillows in deep orange and chintz. how inviting it will seedn, On the other comfor ble chair let us use a simple brocade of deep rust color, or, if you prefer, a stripe of green and cream and rust color. "This should make for comfort, con- venience, color and D. T, SATURDAY, Probably a very small number of | disagree with ' The present beauty of Somerset is charm enough—but it will be increased with the —straight through into the Club Section be- yond—adding value to environment. 415 Cumberland Ave. —is one of “Our” Homes—clever design, at- tractive finish—and built to endure. break fast nook; electricity; gas; screens. Every city convenience $11,250 Prices are temptingly low and terms will be arranged Open Sunday from 10 a.m. turning , to Surry square right to Cumber- 3. €. and A, 1119 ~17 st NO one another and with other con- | sumers and manufacturers concern- | ing the relative merits of varying ma- terials, but both wish to see better homes built. | Sales executives again proved that advertising ex-| penditures decrease rather than in- | c-case the total expense of manufac- | ture and sale, since increased volume will almost always outweigh the cost of the advertising. The effected | economy through increased volume of | production is passed on to the con- | sumer. The manufacturer is forced | to do this, if he does not of his own | volition, by some more pre competitor There another henefit resulting from this advertising. While it ac quaints one with new products and | helps in securing a product best suited to a particular need, 1t does | more: it stimulates the desire to own | a home and is primarily responsible | for starting many young people on | | the road to home ownership, a new | | happiness and economic indepen- | dence, | have time and “Miller Built” improvements This 2722 ness into the large porch; Stone and to 9 p.m. into turnin uniquel Home is on a lot 135 feet deep—and has all ‘the advantages of a corner. The Miller influence has put picturesque- compare into this Home. 6 rooms; luxurious bath; features of refinement that are only found in Miller-built homes. Open Sunday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Motor out Wisconsin Avenue, VEMBER 19, 1927.: BOY GROWS PRIZE CORN. = Five Acres of It Expected to Be Certified for Seed. Correspondence of the Assoclated Press. OAK HARBOR. Ohio.—Waldo Druc- kenmiller, a junior member of he Oak Harbor High School vocational agriculture class, is in line to have five acres of corn certified for seed. Last Spring he got a bushel of certified seed, which he planted on 1 five-acre plot as his home project. This Summer he applied to the Ohio Improvement ~Association for i A representative of the inspected the plot the past week and reported fleld condi- tions satisfactory. Druckenmiller plans to build some seed drying racks and make fleld selections this Fall. The seed will be inspected nuary, and If it scs final inspection he will be the fir to have produced certified corn i Oftawa County. 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