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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Hardwoods generally come from
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sjaAwood come from evergreens.
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