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Show Closet Problem Is Easily Solved; Just Read This! By BETTY WELLS TIT'E'VE heard of houses with V plenty of closet space, but personally per-sonally we've never met one. Even when the closets looked spacious enough on the blueprints, even when they looked enormous in a vacant house, a family has a way of filling them up to overflowing all too soon. And the first thing you know the lady of the house is trying to figure out a place to tuck an extra ex-tra closet or cupboard. Sometimes there's a small porch or an end of a porch or hall that can be remodeled into a grand big wall paper in the alcove thus left. If you plan to have a single bed here, have the space of a size to fit studio couch or springs and mattress mat-tress as if the studio-seat were built in. Or if you want a regular double bed, set the head into an alcove and arrange drapery or a series of pictures pic-tures above. If you use the alcove for a desk, this is a good place for bookshelves. If the alcove will accommodate ac-commodate a dressing table, have a group of wall brackets around the mirror to hold dainty bottles. If the space will be used for a new small piano, plan to have shelves for music mu-sic at the sides. If the two new closets are to be whittled off the dining room floor space, what a chance that space-between space-between offers for shelves to hold interesting china or pottery. By Betty Wells. WNU Service. A bed bnilt into an alcove made by two corner closets. closet. And here's a tip a closet with a window is a joy on all counts so whenever possible, plan on one. It can double as a dressing room; then too, it is easier to keep it fresh and fragrant; and how much easier to find things 1 If you must up and take your new closet space from actual room area, there are ever so many ways to keep it from looking awkward. For Instance, have two closets in corners cor-ners of one long wall. In the space between these two closets, have a dressing table, a piano, a bed or a desk. You can put a contrasting |