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THE PLAY AREA—The Agar children play in their new play area in front
of the family's renovated farm home. Mrs. Agar can keep an eye on the
children from the alcove windows while she works in the kitchen.
(Expositor photo)
The Agars plan carefully
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barn, and one for visitors.
The laundry room behind
the kitchen already contains
a shower stall so Mr. Agar
can wash on his way in from
the barn.
Maureen Agar said when
she was redecorating her
kitchen, she didn't buy a
dishwasher since it didn't fit
into her priorities. The kitch-
en table is an antique table
on a pedestal which was in
the family, but the couple
bought new chairs on cast-
ers.
The house has also defin-
itely been renovated with the
family in mind. Maureen
Agar said she doesn't see the
sense in having things
around the house that aren't
used. Also Maureen likes a
house where . the kids can
play anywhere - "after all,
it's theirs too."
Maureen and her husband
are the third generation of
Agars to live in the farm-
house, and when the reno-
vations are complete, they
will have a home which could
last for several more gener-
ations.
The rec room almost wrecked • Brand name Carpets & Furniture
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Without waiting until he had
had a cold drink and a
relaxing dinner, I jumped at
him as he come in the door
and said, "The walls aren't
out of plumb, you are."
Reacting like any norma!
husband, he stomped down
the stairs, climbed up on a
chair, and began ripping oft
the tiles and throwing them
in every direction. When I
pointed out that the tiles
should be removed carefully
as we would have to reuse
them, he ripped out one
more tile, threw it on the
floor, and told me I could do
the job myself. (I admit that I
was in the wrong, I had been
a Wife for quite a few years,
and should have been much
more diplomatic.)
Determined to show D.
that I could do more than
criticize, I was through
my housework in record time
the next morning, and spent
the rest of the day working
on the rec room ceiling. By
dinner time I had tiled half-
way across the moth, In
straight lines.
When my husband and I
were again speaking to each
other, we resumed our work
in what We were begining to
call the "Black hole of
Calcutta." (All you young
people ( an look that up in
your Britannica.) We now
became entangled in inside
and outside cuts as we
worked with miter box and
saw to cut the various
mouldings around doors,
between ceiling and walls,
and as baseboards. -
"This should be an inside
cut", I would say. "No", D.
would argue, "Any idiot
could see that has to be an
outside cut." Every time,
one of us was right. Too bad
it wasn't always the one
doing the cutting.
One morning before
leaving for his 9 to 5, D.
casually mentioned that he
thought we should hang
dcors that night. I spent the
afternoon reading my book,
and was all ready to act as
carpenter's apprentice when
he came home.
"This is the way we will do
the job" D. said, and
launched into descriptive
detail.
"But that's not how the
American Handyman tells
you to do it", I argued.
I won't tell you what he
replied, but it sounded
positively anti-American.
(1 did not remind him of
the time we removed the hall
door to install wall to wall
carpeting. As it would no
longer go over the additional
height, took the door down-
stairs to take one-half inch
off the bottom. I could hear
him moving around,
measuring, sawing, and
whistling happily. He soon
reappeared, and his wife and
three sons gathered in the
foyer to applaud his efforts.
He moved the door into
position, lifted it up to refit it
on its hinges, and suddenly
turned chalk white. He had
taken the half inch off the
top.)
Six months after we had
started, the great day arrived
when we moved the furniture
into our new room. As we
looked around, we could
hardly believe that two
amateurs could have done
such a professional job. We
were quite proud of our
accomplishment.
And we decided to stay
together. The thought of the
other partner being awarded
one old house complete with
one brand new rec room in an
unfair property settlement
drove away all thought of
divorce
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