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PAGE 28. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1987.
reign supreme. . .After: The remodeled kitchen, which has taken over the adjoining room, has a spacious, airy feeling. A
new, larger window and suspended ceiling with recessed fluorescent fixtures provide abundant light.
Save by identifying ‘levels’
of home furnishings
If you want to give your room a
decorating “fix” while keeping
costs under control, it's a matter of
1-2-3. Before you go shopping,
divide your home furnishings into
three groups or levels to help
control your attitude on spending.
LEVEL 1: These are furnish
ings you purchase infrequently ...
beds, sofas, tables, chairs, drapes,
wall coverings and major furni
ture. Exercise caution and ask
yourself, “Will I like this in two
years? Five years?” Avoid trendy,
“in”stylesor colors you ’ re unsure
of. As your tastes change, can this
piece adapt?
LEVEL 2: Moderately priced
items could be curtains, area rugs,
occasional chairs, small tables,
lamps. Thesemightbe changed
without breaking the bank, but
they’re still costly enough to
warrant careful thought.
LEVEL3: Here’s where de
corating fantasies can abound.
.Accent pieces and inexpensive or
recycled accessories offer creative
potential for exciting decorating.
Indulge in a ‘ ‘tropical color’ ’ phase
or try a “pastel period. ’ ’ In Level 3
you can be whimsical without
wincing at the cost.
A remodelled modern kitchen
is easy to get to love
Much too often, all that’s
expec ted of akitchenisasink, a
stove, a refrigerator, some cabi
nets and maybe space for a table
and a couple of chairs.
And still more often, that’s all we
get! So, muttering and mumbling,
bruising ourselves on jutting appli
ances and counters and fraying our
tempers trying to store things, we
live with it. We make do.
Most of us have learned to put up
with kitchens that look a lot like the
one pictured at left. The other one?
It’s nice to dream about, we say,
sighing deeply, but there’s just no
room in our house for a kitchen like
that!
Oh, no? Look again .. it’s the
same kitchen in both photos! As
you can see, proper planning can
turn exasperation to efficiency and
bordeom to beauty. The trick is
simply to base your remodeling
plans on solving problems and do it
with an eye to beauty and
practicality.
The kitchen at left is cramped,
cluttered and dark. A tiny window
and an under-cabinet fixture pro
vide the only light. There’s not
much work surface and it’s barely
accessible.
Same with the cabinets, which
have almost as much stored on top
as inside. Additional storage con
sists of the top of the refrigerator
and small shelves positioned per
fectly to catch cooking grease from
the stove.
Appliances jut out into walking
space and block access to work
surfaces and cabinets. And the
dining area, equally confined, is
crammed into the other end of the
room. Clutter and claustrophobia
reign supreme!
After remodeling, though, the
kitchen is open and bright. The
wall at left and its intruding door
are gone, and space and light from
the adjoining room are added to the
kitchen.
A vacuum’s a rug’s best friend
Keep your carpet or rug looking
new with frequent use of the most
powerful cleaning tool in the home,
your vacuum cleaner. Cleaning
experts offer these hints for
helping to maintain the beauty of
your carpet for years to come.
•The average carpet can hold up
to one-and a-half times its weight
in dirt and still look clean. These
soil and grit particles work down in
to the carpet. cutting into the base
of the fibers and permanently
damaging them. Frequent va
cuuming helps prevent this.
•Vacuum the entire carpet at
leastonce a week. Heavy traffic
areas, like stairs and hallways,
may require more frequent touch
ups with a lightweight vac.
•When cleaning a room, mental
ly divide the carpet into quadrants
and vacuum each area thoroughly
before proceeding to the next. For
cleaning to be most effective,
vacuum slowly over the carpet
surface, using several overlapping
strokes.
•Pay extra attention to the areas
in front of couches and chairs.
People tend to shift their feet
around as they sit, loosening soil
particles from their shoes.
•Protect your carpet from
tracked-in dirt with doormats
outside every entrance to the
home. Regular cleaning of these
mats can reduce the amount of dust
and soil brought into the house.
An enlarged window brings in
daylight directly where you need it:
on the built-in appliances and
large, open counter that serves as
work surface and snack bar. And
the clutter has disappeared into the
floor-to-ceiling cabinet wall at
right.
The new suspended ceiling
typifies the beauty-plus-practical
ity approach taken in this remodel
ing. Easily installed without spe
cial tools, it has a crisp, clean look.
The white metal support grid
merges with the white panels so as
not to detract from the appearance
of the ceiling. The additional
lighting supplied by the recessed
fluorescent fixtures is welcome,
too.
Furthermore, the panels are fire
retardant and acoustical, absorb
ing a minimum of 45 percent of the
sound striking their surface. If they
become soiled, you can remove
them easily and wipe them with a
damp sponge. Beautiful and dis
tinctive, suspended ceilings are
highly practical as well.
You, too, can transform your
kitchen from a cramped galley into
a bright, open part of the living
area of your home. All it takes are
equal parts of imagination and
practical problem-solving.
Andit’seasierthatyou might
think. So what are you waiting for?
Don’t just live with your kitchen -
live in it and love it!
Easy way to make drawers
Here’s an easy way to assemble
drawers for your desk. First,
determine the measurements for
your drawer.
Use half-inch plywood for the
sides and back and three-quarter
inch plywood for a facing at the
front of the drawer. After cutting
the pieces, rout a one-quarter inch
by one-quarter inch groove one-
half inch from the bottom edge of
each piece.
Rout a groove one-half inch wide
by one-quarter deep about one-
half inch from the back edge of the
sides.
Cut a drawer bottom from
one-quarter inch plywood, sand
the edges, spaear yellow glue in the
grooves and fit the drawer pieces
together. The sides attach to the
edge of the facing with No. 6 flat
head wood screws one inch long.
The drawer fronts should be at
least one inch taller and one inch
wider than the drawer opening.
The drawer fronts can be made of
solid wood, and the edges can be
routed in decorative patterns.
The fronts attach to the drawers
by driving No. 7 flat head wood
screws one and one-quarter inch
long through the back side of the
facing.
Fixing Your
Barbeque?
Heat Indicator
Grill Top
Lid Handle
Cast Iron Grid Warming Rack
Grill Bottom
Grid [Chrome
or Porcelain]
Grate
HWY. 4 SOUTH.
BLYTH, ONT. NOM 1 HO
Axle
Hose &
Regular Assembly
Valve
Control
Knob
Ignitor Kit-^®^^
Cylinder Ring
Wheel
_ Side Handle
We have parts for all makes of barbeques
and if we haven’t got them
we will get them.
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