Show wood material used to make kitchen modern 11 pronounced opportunities are offered the building industry to promote interior home modernizing during the colder months the national Nation til lumber deaerts Dei iler association believes many firms are finding tills this source of business well worth cultivating and there Is it 11 trend in the building industry toward stimulating lulng the interest of lionie bowe owners s in this form of lionie home improvement according to various journals serving the building held A great den deal of interest is centering on kitchens ant alij breakfast nooks tills this Is particularly fortunate for lumber interests the association believes because in improving the kitchen lumber almost invariably plays an important part wood also Is featured in making breakfast alcoves more comfortable for table convenient and attractive there ali ere Is hardly anything which adds so much to the attractiveness and convenience of a kitchen as plen ty of built in features fea turea these may be installed easily at little cost in practically any aay kitchen old or new the various cupboards capi cabinets nets shelves and bins can be constructed readily by the carpenter or contractor or built up at the millwork house an and d installed lied by the carpenter some housewives will be interested in sug gesting installations that will meet their particular needs cupboards containing shelves shelve drawers and bins come first the four west coast woods douglas or west coast hemlock western red cedar and spruce as aa well as aa many others are excellent materials for these uses they are easy to machine to give true square corners and tight fitting Jo joints lints modernizing Is receiving strong sap sup port from buflo building ling and loan ass associations ocla A topeka ann kanj concern has adopted a policy of completely mod ern izing ever that com comes es into its hands before it Is rented or sold tile the result has been a 50 per cent decrease in rentals renti ils on hand band and an increase of per cent in sales through modernization this con concern cern believes ninny many foreclosures fore closures have been avoided and many discouraged home owners have been developed into contented owners this building and loan organization found ali that it one of its borrowers who had become delinquent in payments had no renson reason for netting behind except that they had become dissatisfied with their home investigation ro re veah ol that the house was satisfactory I 1 in n ev every ery respect except for the kitchen which was so poorly arranged that the owners despaired of ever doing anything with it the company suggested a modernizing plan which was accepted at a cost of about tile the kitchen was completely transformed the long narrow window was removed and two short twin windows were installed just high enough to allow a fine sink to be installed the old cabinet was removed and replaced with a corn com unit of drawers and cabinets finis glied lied on tile the outside with stain and enamel A variety of appeals have been used by concerns interested in fit developing kitchen modernizing business these include cost is less than would be expected small investment results in material increase in ln value make biake the kitchen a place friends can be shown with pride an anti antiquated equated kitchen does more to lower tile value of a home than any other room in it A properly arranged and equipped kitchen enables a given amount of work to be done in less time leaving more time free for other things A modern kitchen makes easy corli out of would be drudgery |