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I s kv s 1 1 - -- - - - M°ran):older t - i homes can - II 44 I ) windows etc Below be upgraded with exterior remodeling new sidings ii are three ideas 1 F - I - i t t 1 ii q Itii0 !Ora 4 r- - - 1 i G 17 e e - '' ' ''''S ' qr '' ti t - ' '''' 1 '' '''' - '" - ( Dee Liirpu reCerit ' : - ' ' J I ' - t ' 1 - it f i a ' ''— 1 I 1 1 I r515 A f - 1 5— IN EVERY TOWN in every neighborhood there are big old houses and little old houses which are candidates for a face lifting With available land rapidly diminishing and lot prices soaring a structurally sound older home in a good neighborhood may be the best buy on the market And most appearance-wis- e of them can be updated for a reasonable cost ' ' t MUCH CAN BE done by strengthening the changing the siding style redesigning windows emphasizing an entrance and landscaping with plant materials and with privacy screens which also can be designed and placed to cover a multitude of architectural faults The roof is If it's dinky with eaves that stop at the walls and a pitch too low to add proper mass it might be worth rebuilding completely A basically good line can be strengthened however by extending eaves and an important particularly one gable faces the street Or perhaps all that is needed are new cedar shingles for distinctive pattern roofline - 4 ' ' - ' that NEW SIDING must be chosen with care to produce the effect ed flesh-- boards ing and the channel pattern installed vertically will heighten walls Installed horizontally boards lengthen in a crisp manner Bevel siding also lengthens but tends le lower a house as well It's best on homes or one that sits well above street level Little square houses and low ranch styles do better with a dean line or emtongue-and-groov- ' - I sid- Board-and-batte- e tongue-a- nd-groove two-stor- - ' phasis on y the vertical SHOULD SIDING be extured ' or smooth painted or stained? It's a matter of pervoral choice Stained resawn cedar requires 10 little maintenance to keep its good looks but tends ttward the modern in appearance Many colors are available in addition to natural wood tooes in penetrating stains Painted smooth-- s urf aced wood is usually chosen le': ornamentation and the paint itself becomes more important than the wood it covers ar the siding's style Thus it must be kept shipshape at all times to kok well Windows in older homes often are too small and oddly placed Redesigning them to proper proportions and casing them in distinctive wood frames is not difficult especially when exterior siding is to be changed j!'41110PMWMNAMPRIMWMIV001MOISOPPMFFO Same home looks snappy and spacious with porch enclosed to enlarge living room new entrance from the side via a stepped wood deck Solid 4x8 beams support extended room Board and batten cedar and large windows emphasize the vertkal line ' - - r c) t' — r I 1 I - g 1 - f A GOOD FRONT entrance can ' 1 be produced by the elimination or enclosure of an existing front porch—or perhaps by the addition of a generous porch built necesdeck style and stepped sary to ease the hlire trent down to lawn level The entrance walk may need widening or relocation to produce the best line On a small lot privacy screens may be needed They can become a part of the house structure or built indenendently of it In either case screen styling should imitate the house siding 4 ---- T - (' : ' 4'1 - - : : '1 - '' - ':' " 14444sr ' ' - ''::- -: F it ' 4' -'- '''' a k ''' - ' - e ' 4 '14 I t I I 1' rt4 "71 t 1 - - i' c At horizontal siding e ntr once privacy screen transform bungalow to warm contemporary Old porch is enclosed for living space new windows ore set into OAdad members Note upper window mullion extends to top rail of wall tris roof ve tongue-and-groo- I ' ' : 7: 4 pattern Updated landscaping is the final step Overgrown fourdation plantings should be replaced with low plant materials that give an open clean line PACE LIFTING ideas for seven different house styles are shown in a booKet published by the Western Wood Products Association Three suggestions are sketched fir each house by top architects in the remodeling field For s copy of "New Faces for Old Fares" Westwrite Department 143-ern Wood Products Association Yeon Building Portland Oregon 97144 Enclose 10c to cever handling full-col- 4 P I ''''''' :':' '' ' ' ' : ' ' t ' ': —11ttl'":i'l:1 iii'11'':11'ri - r''''77-7:T- i 1 1: ? rarf :' '! ''' '" ': - ti:!i:: :!::H: iHri17 '' s': ' ''' - ': ' i!!: ': - ' I''' V '''' : ii t i ii : f I ' ! i ''' i t i! !! i:7:iIiii:i1:1 1 el' '" 'l''"' '''' ' :' '' '' r I 1 :1 t:: Plenty of light but privacy from the street dictates this design whkh opens the living area with a gable of glass then adds an airy screen of spaced 2x2s across the house frail Roof is extended for weather protect ion but retains the lines of original home The Salt Lake Tribune Home Magazine otiztf AtftPtf ' |