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Show Builders Ready to Construct Postwar Homes on Day Hostilities Are Ended On the day that an Armistice ends World War II, America's building contractors and building material dealers can start production of new, improved postwar homes, according to an article in the magazine Practical Prac-tical Builder. Thirty billion dollars is expected to be spent for these new homes during the next ten years. For his money the buyer will get "new or greatly improved materials in practically prac-tically every step of construction. Bathrooms, kitchens, laundries and their equipment redesigned with an eye to beauty, utility and color. Heating Heat-ing equipment that will out-perform anything in existence before the war. Methods of construction that outstrip out-strip anything now generally known." The article further predicts "practical "prac-tical application' of such things as plastics, aluminum, magnesium, lightweight durables galore to feed the needs and desires of America's postwar progress." But this new home Is not expected ex-pected to present a revolutionary change in appearance. "Basically, the present form of house was all right to begin with. It had to have a kitchen, bathroom, living room, bedrooms. It still has to have them today." "True, your postwar miracle home will be better designed. More compact. More carefully planned for comfort, health, safety, convenience, conven-ience, labor saving, economy of operation." op-eration." But an extreme futuristic trend in designing is not anticipated, anticipat-ed, according to the article. The $10,000 home of 1920 could be purchased for about $6,000 in 1940; and the homes of the immediate future will inaugurate an even greater downward trend in proportionate propor-tionate cost with a resulting upward trend in value, it is predicted. |