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Show WOMAN'S WORLD Little Expense Is Required for Hobby Room ed to this type of studding. This will help keep the room clean, since no dust can sift in. How to Solve Floor Problems Floors in a recreation room have to serve a practical purpose, and the floor covering may be one of three: concrete or cement, wood over concrete and linoleum or asphalt as-phalt tile. If the floor is poor, but dry, and if you do not want to bring up the cost of doing this room, the cement or concrete may be painted with paints designed for just' such a purpose. Paint the floor in a color that will harmonize with the furnishings furn-ishings of the room. For the room designed as an extra living room, or one that will be used for dancing, the best choice is wood over cement' or concrete. Stained and waxed floors are best for dancing; other colors may be used for a more general purpose room. Asphalt tile and linoleum are considered flooring rather than floor coverings, and both offer good possibilities for the type of room under consideration. MOST FAMILIES agree they should have game, hobby or work rooms, but little is done about It for the simple reason that most people are afraid of the cost. As long as you have the space, and most people do, it seems a shame not to have such a room, either for youngsters, adults or both. The cost of these rooms runs much less than any other room in the home, and the hours of pleasure pleas-ure they can provide can usually be reconciled with the budget since little outside, or more expensive entertainment need be provided. Much of the work on these rooms can be done by members of the family, and the materials required are not usually expensive, or, at least, they need not be. Most of us have enough odd furniture or outdoor out-door furniture that can be used in the room, so this need be no problem. prob-lem. Actually your imagination is the only limit as to what can be done with the room. With a few pointers to apply to your particular problem, prob-lem, and some guides to point the way, make it a project to convert attic or basement into a recreation room for the family. You'll love doing it. Decide first on the nature of the room. Some people like it for games which cannot be played in the other rooms, like ping pong; others like it for music or snack woods like knotted pine. If the cellar is dry and has masonry, ma-sonry, brick, plaster or cement walls, you can work out some attractive at-tractive color schemes with whitewash white-wash or cold-water paints. If you Furnish game rooms simply .... bar; some like to have the room for their hobby, woodwork, photography, photog-raphy, etc. Families with dramatic interest may want to construct a stage on which they can perform. How To Overcome Some Architectural Problems If your recreation room is going to be in the basement, you will probably run into the problem of hiding the furnace unless this has been built in the laundry unit, or separated by walls or partitions when the unit was constructed. Draw a plan, of the basement, then block off the furnace. Include blocking off the coal bin, too, or your oil tanks, whichever may be the case. These may be partitioned off with wall board, but you'll naturally natural-ly have to leave a door to get into the unit. Walls are usually in need of . some kind of finishing, if the room is to be in the basement. Here again, use wallboard, or if you want to cut the cost, paneling which simulates simu-lates wood. A still less expensive treatment uses wallpaper that simulates some of the natural with view to family's interests. have the least bit of dampness, waterproof the walls with cement paint and line them with inexpensive inexpens-ive wallboard. To disguise pipes, it's usually best to build a false ceiling of pine studding and a dropped ceiling nail- |