Show nome Town tn lp t MAKING OVER OLD HOUSES Architects Have jave Shown That The They The Can Do Wonders With Present Unsightly Structures tures There never was a time when the services taste and sp special knowledge of the trained architect were more needed or more In demand The carpenter carpenter car car- penter and builder have for years been the consulting experts in the building of thousands of suburban homes and farmhouses and let us give live them credit at least before the Jigsaw era for many beautiful and charming old houses Following the building shortage In these latter years has come an appreciation appreciation appreciation of the fact that any old house or new be It as ps s hopelessly ugly as asIt asIt asit I It may be has possibilities Architecture Architecture Archi Archi- has bas shown many instances of before and after of old ramshackle hornlike structures altered into most delightful homes Old barns have been made over OYer into charming studios and living quarters woodsheds Incorporated Incorporated Into the redesigning of ot an old farmhouse Everywhere Is la shown a wider appreciation that nothing Is Impossible impossible impossible im Im- im- im possible to tile the architect of taste and skill The old and hopelessly ugly city cUr stone brown house and the little two or three-story three brick house or stable on a side street have been made Into artistic and attractive apartments or studio buildings It Is la to the architect that we owe this renaissance and we have only made a beginning the development development devel devet of ot the city cUy beautiful from old end and unsightly and out out date date of-date tures Lest some should say that we weare weare weare are dealing with merely Idealistic matters matters matters mat mat- with our own desire for tor better things artistically we remark that in every instance these artistic Improvements Improvements Im have proved the very best of business in Increased rents had and more desirable tenants If the co cost t of new buildings has deterred deterred deterred de de- de- de many from carrying out their long long cherished cherished dream of owning their own home there is abundant opportunity opportunity at almost most everywhere for the alteration alteration al al- al of old places at at very moderate moderate ate cost And old houses nearly always always al al- al ways offer the nucleus of a more substantial substantial sub sub- structure than many hurriedly built modern houses put up In quantities quan quan- titles for speculative purposes From From Architecture |