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Show t - Convert A Closet To A Study For Him And Her Hideaway His & Hers study evolved with a double desk unit built into a closet. Shelves on side lomered doors. walls leave desk top free. Drawers set out from side walls open past bi-fo- ld income lax time at rives. do you have to dresser drawers, old purses, trouser through scrounge pockets and kitchen cupboards to find the various household records that affect your tax statement? ff so, you're merely normal. But wouldn't it be lovely to have all that material organized in labeled file folders that are kept up to date through the year? Theres no time like income tax time to follow through with the resolve to create office space somewhere in the house. You need it. And once you have a real office, youll never be without again, for this is where you'll also carry on club work, business mailers and build a reference library for private studies. T THEN BUT WHERE CAN YOU put an office, needed paraphernalia? with all its double-doo- wardrobe r in & Hers setup. Remodeling the closet was an easy matter. The desk lumber set piece of top is an on a drawer unit at either end. Each of those contains a file drawer at the bottom and two other drawers of ordinary depty. ilis edge-glue- eight-foot-lon- g d full-siz- e TO ALLOW DRAWERS to open past the closet doors, they were built several inches out from the side walls. Providing shelving for the reference library was a simple matter of attaching metal shelf standards to the closets side walls. Shelves are lxlO-incpine boards, wide enough for everything but the unabridged dictionary. Using the edge of the desk, and four shelves per wall, they produced 20 feet of book spare. wall-hun- One family found the answer in a closet dard depih, room. By providing other storage for guests' needs, they gained space eight feet long and two ieet vide which, with a few built-ins- , proved perfect for a den-gue- a stan- their combination Overhead lighting already existed in Iho closet and was bolstered by a desk lamp. White paint on walls and shelving made the space seem even bigger and brighter. BEST OF ALL, the office can bo quickly hidden away behind the closet doors. Interrupted work may be left as is without their having to look at the clutter. Secretarial chairs slip in snugly against the desk and needn't serve elsewhere in the house. Although remodeling the closet didn't involve the rest family did redecorate to make the entire aiea more warmly Inviting. Walls were paneled w ith pine boards finished with driftwood stain and the louvered closet doors were refinished to match. of the room, the A sofa was recovered In a colorful slabbed linen and handsome area rug was ordered to diamatize the room's slate flooring. a Timely Idea 1'nscramble these six Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form six ordinary words. RACTICALLLY ev.i j on. I.ii, the desire to own a handsome grandt.itlier's clock. The problem has always leen the cost. The clock shown was designed with two thoughts in mind economy and simplicity. It may be built to use an inexpensive movement, or another possibility is to use a flashlight battery Towered movement. weight-drive- n You need only trace the pattern parts on wood, saw them out and finally put them full-siz- e together. TO OBTAIN grandfathers Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. -y A IwK. I-Nr- y YTTY'Y'Y .A. a. A. A. y .A AvA A .a. A (Answers appear on page 10 A i ) ih 1 22) the clock full-siz- pattern number 464, send $1,00 (add 25 cents per pattern for airmail delivery) by currency, check or money order to; Steve Elling-son- , Salt Lake Tribune Pattern Dept., P.O. Box 238.3. Van Nttys, California 91409. Hie Salt lake Tribune Home Magazine " ' ' '! t - ; . i |