BUILT-IN ECONOMY
Capital Journal Building Section, Friday, March 10, 1950 7
Smart built-ins can reduce the
cost of building and furnishing
a home. Their space saving fea
tures make it possible to have the
same amount of usable floor
space in a house as much as 20
per cent smaller than a house
with conventional closets and
portable furniture. Or by using
built-ins in the same size house
the living area is increased by
as much as 20 per cent.
Built-ins include dressers,
vanties, chests of drawers, book
cases, radio and television cabi
nets, sliding - door wardrobes,
dining tables, sideboards, china
cupboards, desks, and even beds
with shallow drawers under
them for blankets.
Modern plywoods of hundreds
of types with colorful rare wood
surfaces give built-ins all of the
beauty of the finest furniture. A
new type of plywood impreg
nated with a plastic coating to
give it a permanently polished
surface has been developed by
the Georgia-Pacific Plywood &
Lumber Co.
The cost of furnishing a new
home is usually an added bur
den to the home buyer. Even
when installment payments are
aranged for new furniture, they
extend over a comparatively
short term. When as much fur
niture as possible is built into a
house it is financed in the single
mortgage covering the house,
spreading the cost into easy pay
ments. Lending institutions recognize
this advantage. Edwin H. Guest,
a director of the New Eochelle,
N. Y., Federal Savings & Loan
Association, says loans secured
by homes with a maximum of
built-ins represent the soundest
investments. As head of Nuroco
Woodwork, the millwork divi
sion of the New Rochelle Coal
& Lumber Co., Guest has made
extensive studies of the economy
of built-ins.
He has found that built-ins
can give a house with 808 square
feet of floor area the same
amount of walking space around
furniture as a conventional home
with a total area of 1,014 square
feet. "This is a saving of 20
per cent," he points out, "and
with building costs ranging from
$12 to $15 per square foot, it
represents a sizable amount."
One of the first dividends that
can be reaped through the use
of built-ins is in the utiliza
tion of the space usually wasted
for conventional interior walls.
Roof trusses, or one load-bearing
wall with posts and beams
for openness can solve the struc
tural problem. In either case the
installation of all interior par
titions can be delayed until outer
walls, floors and ceilings are fin
ished. This reduces the amount
of cutting, fitting and piecing.
A storage wall between two
bedrooms, built of plywood and
containing the closets for each
bedroom, is one of the simplest
space savers. From that point on,
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BUILT-INS save space. Key: A vanity, B bureau, C chest,
D sideboard, E china cabinet, F radio, G desk, H dresser,
I bureau and J vanity. Usable space remains the same.
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opportunities for efficient plan
ning continues.
The size of the usual bedroom
is determined by the space re
quired for easy movement
around beds, but as well as by
the depth of each piece of furni
ture around the walls. To per
mit a 30-inch wide closet door
to swing, at least that much
clearance also is needed.
A space 2 ft. deep and 8 ft.
wide, on the other hand, can
provide for a wardrobe 314 ft.
wide, with sliding doors requir
ing no swing clearance; a dress
er 2 ft. wide with storage cab
inets above, and a vanity 2",4 ft.
wide with built-in lighting, a
triplicate mirror and all the
drawers and shelves a woman
may want.
Sliding doors on wardrobes
have many advantages. Clothes
are more accessible and in full
view, instead of being hidden
back in a"corner. Sliding doors
also cut costs and building time.
Made of plywood and equipped
with slotted metal tracks, they
slide at the touch of a finger.
They can be prefabricated at a
woodworking plant.
Any home owner fiandy with
lools finds the construction of
built-ins simple and gratifying.
Plywood cuts cleanly with a
saw, and because of its multiple
layers it takes nails close to the
edge without splitting. It can
be used in large sheets in thick
nesses up to -inch.
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