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Show Unused Attic Offers Chance to Gain Additional Living Space If you have an attic and it' you aren't using it, you may he missing a het. Sometimes tin extra bedroom can i 1 1 i i ; i s i thi' side price of a house by several thousand dollars. dol-lars. And an unused attic is the place to start. That's what Vomer Carlson figured when he found his family outgrowing his home. The way Carlson re-did Ids atti.-: is a case-study in attic remodeling that is a mine appearance of the room. The finish in the bedroom area is a mist-green texture paint. Carlsen used a natural finish for the plywood in the hallway which is packed with built-ins. These include shelf space and linen storage as well as a closet. And right under the roof overhang over-hang he has installed a roller bed which is hidden from sight .when not in use. If you have a problem similar . to Carlsen's, it may be worth money. West coast plywood manufacturers are offering $20,-ooo $20,-ooo in prizes in their current "Room For Improvement" home owner remodeling contest. You don't need to do much to get a crack at one of the four big first prizes or 42 other awards. Just describe what you want, indicate how you would do it and make a simple floor plan sketch to show the suggested suggest-ed change. There is a seperate division for farm home owners and another an-other for either remodeling in a given area or for adding new floor space. That means, whatever what-ever your problem, that you can qualify Entry bnks can be obtained by writing Douglas Fir Plywood Ass'n., Tacoma Wash. pointers on the subject ap- plicable to your own remodeling problems. Carlson's attic was too small so he added a dormer. And he filled the hall corridor with built-in storage units and an ex Ira bed. The result a striking strik-ing bed-sitting room and a permanent per-manent improvement in the house that will more than pay its way when it is time to sell. SpecificaUy, Carlsen's 17-year old daughter needed more space and the family needed an extra room. He planned to solve the problem by giving her the attic and turning her old downstairs bedroom into a den and guest room, killing two birds with one stone. The large dormer he built onto the attic provides more space in the area. This forms an L-shape L-shape with the attic proper giving giv-ing his daughter room for two beds without crowding and a ! spacious area for study and en tertaining friends. Carlsen saved himself a lot of headaches by having a professional profes-sional corpenter do the framing on the dormer. Then he finished the job himself. He used the economical structural struc-tural grade of fir plywood for sheathing on the outside of the new dormer and for the new roof decking. The same grade enabled him to finish up the sub floor thruout the attic' in a relatively rela-tively few working hours. To save himself time and trouble, he also used plywood finish paneling. He broke up the monotony of broad flat surfaces sur-faces resulting from the formation forma-tion of attic walls' and ceiling by applying his panels vertically on the vertical surfaces with a simple decorative molding in the joints which are spaced 16-in. apart. On the ceilings, large, staggered stag-gered sqtiares of plywood create cre-ate a simple joint pattern which adds considerably to the over-all |