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Mt-lfcurJei Kitchen Cabinets Make Quick, Easy Built-ins Imaginative homeowners -have discovered that kitchen cabinets of fir expedient snort-cuts for built-ins. These unfinished, ready made units available at well stocked lumber yards, caa solve many decorating and storage problems throughout the house. They fill a variety of furnish ing need whether used singly as chest and clipboards, or in various combinations to form room dividers or to build up a useful surrounding for a vanity table and mirror. Such cabinets, usually made of jionderoea pine because of its ease in workability, are suitable for almost any type f finish paint, stain or waxing in natrual tones, A regular kitchen base cabi net, properly finished, with a lamp placed en top, makes a service able night table. Two such cabi nets on either side of a sofa pro vide smart end table with plenty of storage space for ash trays, glasses and coasters. Two base cabinets set side by side and covered with a marble top make an attractive dresser. Two cabinets placed a few feet apart and 'bridged with a pan eled door covered with a sheet of plate glass form a sturdy mod ern desk. Add a wall mirror in bark of this arrangement and you have a vanity. How to -nW.i '"'' 1 j : i I ur 1 L ... - 1 4 ANOTHER EXAMPLE of de-it yeanetf renodellag aad flnlshlag is the Robert at Fritchara home, 3031 Bulsey Aveaae. Like Baay other Salem families, the Pilchards sneveel lata their heme a fore It wis finished and have been working on the last teaches themselves. Transforming their bare basement Into a pleasant place to relax iawlnded building benches aloag the wall aad a refreshment bar. Later, they plaa to tile, the concrete floor. (Joe Tompkins Photo) , SMART AND ISEFIX room dividers In the style of modern knilt-ias eaa be enirkly assembled by nsiag standard kltcaea cabinets avail able at well-stocked lumber yards. These p re-made cablaeta are easy to paiat, stain, vanish or wax to aarmeetse with aay room la the house, la this picture they are used to separate dlalag room from living ream. They eaa be grouped aroaad mirrors la a bedroom to form aa attractive vanity terser. Mere' Hw Ijtuch A (fallen Cvkti Here is table prepared by painting experts showing the average areas in square feet which one gallon of paint should cover when applied with a brush: . first or t SURFACE Primer Exterior Wood Siding 4M Exterior . Trim 150 Wood Shingle Siding r 341 Asbestos Wall Shingles 37S Interior Smooth' Plaster: Flat Oil Paint 30 Gloss or Semi-Gloss , .' 630 Interior Doors and Windows (Enamel) 603 Coat 540 too 423 '400, 540 540 405 Third Coat 630 171 630 540 504 Estimate Paint Job The quickest way to estimate the amount of paint needed to paint your house is to measure th Aimtannm mmunA ihst hnUM multiply by the height of the house, -wHhout-ductlng for-window-and 1 . .1 J 1 1 boots, ana wen amae dj un num ber of square feet which can .be covered by one gallon of paint. A gallon of primer for a first " coat is supposed to cover 468 square feet of frame siding clapboards. One gallon for a sec ond coat will spread to 540 square feet. A gallon for a third coat should cover 630 square feet. These figures are for brush application. . Experts agree that several thin coats of paint will look better and last longer than a lesser number of heavy coats. Your Moaey'a Worth The smartest economy is to use a high quality paint at all times. Cheap paint may look good at first, but K can cnaic ana wasn away too fast, or chip and pecL A good ; paint is formulated to provide a tough and durable film that still j can "breathe," as the painters call ! it. . The reason no deduction is made , for windows and doors, unless they have an area of more than 100 square feet each, is that these openings will be canceled out by the areas added by board edges, eaves and other irregularities. Dormer windows protruding from a roof are quickly figured as adding 100 square feet each, , regardless of their widths, Figuring Gable Areas A plain gable at the end of a ! pitched roof is figured by multi- plying the width at the eaves line by the height from gable base to ; peak and dividing by 2. A gothic gable, like the type; commonly used on barns, Dutch ' colonial houses and the like, is figured the same way as a plain: gable and then 50 per cent is added. A gambrel gable, lower i than the gothtc, cans tor an aam tion of only 25 per cent. Eaves are not figured separately Unless the overhang is l,Joot or more. For projecting beams under an overhang, double the area. If you plan to paint the trim the same color as the walls no special figuring is needed since the windows and doors were not deducted for the total area. When more than one coat is being used, il . t 1 k. trim .1.1 can be the same as used on the! rest of the house. Good practice, however, usually calls for tinting the under coat for trim to approxi mately the finish color for perfect M'ara CT i The amount of paint needed for a finish color for trim can gen erally be figured at one-quarter the amount needed for the final coat on the walls. Figaring Windows Separately f you want to estimate the trim separately, a handy rule is to figure 35 square feet for each window ami door. This will aMow for painting one side of the door and its frame and tor covering - -r h. windiur tush and niw: iiuc ui - 1 lift liaiur. , For painting both sides of wood framed storm sash, figure 13 square feet. The same goes tor wood framed screens. The wire mesh of about eight screens can be painted with one pint of screen enamel. Shutters are figured at 35 square feet per pair, covering both sides. To estimate for columns, either square or round, multiply the length around by the height. JUNIOR BATHROOMS Miniature toilets for children are made by plumbing fixture manu facturers, other rixtures for a child's bathroom are about the same as any. Uvatnries are hung clonef to the floor for youngsters and can be raised later. Small i7d bathtubs are common. YouVe probsly tried Ihem in hotels. - HARD OR SOFT WOOD Hardwoods generally come from tree that have broad leaves. 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