Capital Journal Building Section, Friday, March 10, 195025
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Why Not Get Your Suntan
In Your Home Grounds ?
Sunshine is precious; it uplifts
the spirits, it is necessary for
good health to adults and chil
dren alike, it is vital to plant
growth, and is the greatest ene
my of decay in buildings.
Thousands of Americans mi
grate every month to those sec
tions of the country which en
joy a maximum of sunshine; and
millions spend their vacations
at seashore, desert, or mountain
resorts, where they can soak up
sunshine, and return home with
a good coat of sun-tan.
No wonder, then, that a move
ment is spreading in localities
where sunshine is not so plenti
ful, to make sure that every bit
there is has uninterrupted access
to homes and their occupants.
Why, we wonder, did so many
Americans of the recent past,
surround their homes with dense
plantings of trees and shrubs,
so that no sun could reach their
houses, and they were obliged
to travel to less shaded places in
order to enjoy the sun?
It is difficult to answer this
question except with the one
word: Fashion. It was the fash
ion to overplant home grounds.
This practice is now outmod
ed, its departure hastened by mo
dern house design. Built for
comfort and enjoyment, new
homes discard traditional styles
in favor of design for efficient
living. Sunshine is invited into
the house through large glass
areas, and an intimate relation
ship is sought between the rooms
of the home, and the grounds
surrounding it.
Full use of this outdoor home
area is required and use must be
the first consideration in plant
ing the grounds. Nothing should
be planted which would inter
fere with use, yet the house
should be provided with an at
tractive frame, to enhance its
beauty.
For modern house, with no vi
sible foundations, flower borders
provide a delightful setting,
They cast no shade, but revel in
the sunshine, which has uninter
rupted access to the house. Their
beauty may be enjoyed from
within the house, through the
picture windows, and by pass
ersby, as well.
A planting of low growing
flowers in color masses, as sug
gested by the illustration, gives
an attractive setting for a small
ranch house. The varieties sug
gested bloom all summer with
little care, and can be grown
from seed at small expense.
Home Repairs
To Continue
At High Rate
A continued high rate of mod
ernizing old houses as well a?
building new ones is predicted
for th i s year by the Fed era 1
Housing Administration.
The forecast is based on the
volume of FHA-insured properly
improvement loans, which
amounted to at least $600,000,
000 in 1949. The FHA expect?
that loans in 1950 "will not fal
below" the 1949 figure.
Under the FHA's property im
provement program, which is
designated at Title I, any ap
proved lending institution is per
mitted to lend up to $2,500 for
improving a one family dwell
ing or a farm service building.
Farms Get Plum bin? .
Provision also is made for in
suring loans for improvements
to other kinds of structures, in
cluding two- to four-family
dwellings, commercial and in
dustrial buildings, and garages.
Heating, insulation and plumb
ing rank high among specific
categories of interior improve
ments for which money has been
borrowed. Statistics show that
the number of plumbing instal
lations is particularly high in
rural areas.
On the exterior, reroofing and
exterior finishing, which in
cludes painting, are the leading
repairs. As with plumbing, the
comparative volume of roofing
work increases for farm homes
:ind other farm buildings.
Town Payment Dropped
Asphalt shingles are widely
used in reroofing work because
in most cases this material can
be laid on top of the old roofing,
thus eliminating the expense of
tearing off the worn roof cover
ing. In addition, the solid and
blended colors in which the ma
terial is made permit enhancing
the attractiveness of a home eco
nomically.
Since last summer, the FHA
has not required that a down
payment be made on a property
improvement loan.
About 10,000,000 Title I loans,
totaling approximately $4,000
000,000, have been made to
property holders since the pro
gram began in 1934.
A RE-ROOFING METHOD
Before applying asphalt shing
les on top of old wood shingles.
J FFATHrPING y,
; -c flashing C-
STRIP
the worn out root should be pre
pared for the new covering. Put
on ah caves flashing strip of roll
covering, extending from the
caves up the roof slope to a
line at least 12 inches beyond
the inside wall line of the build
ing. Tapered strips of wood, call
ed feathering strips, should be
applied along the butts of the
wood singles. This makes a
smooth roof deck.
A WHISK SCRAPER
A combination whisk broom
and scraper makes a handy time-
saving tool for
removing paint.
You can scrape
with one end of
the tool and re-
verse it for
quickly brush
ing away the
scrapings. T o
make it, buy a
whisk broom
with a wooden
handle. Make a
saw cut down
the end of the
handle deep enough to hold a
scraper blade.. Bore through the
blade and through the handle to
match. Insert the blade and rivet
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