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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1964-04-23, Page 22• Built-ins feature the modern kitchen Top priority to kitchen For All Your Needs See C. Haskett & Son Furniture LUCAN NOW! is The Time To Have Yo FURNACE CHECKED Fuel Oil is your best heating buy and with our service contract you get even more; Pre-season clean out, check-ups, adjustments and repairs. PHONE 235-2314 DISTRIBUTORS FOR CANADIAN OIL PRODUCTS • COAL CEMENT 203 WELLINGTON ST. W. EXETER Sashless Windows SELDON FUELS WHITE ROSE Before buying ahome or having one built it is always wise to get all the informatiqp you can from the local municipal office. Your enquiry should cover the zoning and parking regulations, services existing or likely to be provided, the tax rates for the area and other charges that might be levied against your property. If you are having a house built to specification yon will also be able to check on the building regu- lations and restrictions, which materials are acceptable, size of the house, required set-b ar c k from the street and elevation and side yard requirements. If ypu are moving into a ready- built house your builder should have taken care of these details.. In any case a visit to the muni- cipal office should be profitable and can enlighten and reassure you on many points. Homeowners tips RELIEVE DOOR CATCHING If the bottom of a door rubs slightly, lay a sheet of coarse sandpaper at the trouble point and work back and forth rapidly. This should sufficiently smooth down the wood to avoid need for plan., ing. There's A Dashwood • REUTEN TRU-BOW AND. TRU-WALL WINDOWS • PRESTO OR SILENT-SEAL TAKE-OUT DOUBLE HUNG AND PICTURE WINDOWS DASHWOOD - ONTARIO Phone 300 Visit your municipal office A CMHC FEATURE As an addition to the community a new home is subject to muni- cipal regulations. It thus becomes both a muni- cipal asset and a liability, bring- ing in tax revenue but at the same time involving municipal expen- ditures. These may cover the ex- tension of streets, sewer and other essential services such as garbage collection, police and fire protection, school s and transportation. The municipality also reserves the right to regulate the type of house yqu can build in a given district. The Modern WINDOW For The Modern Home • Architects • Builders • Homeowners Specify Dashwood Windows For Canadian Homes Window For Every Home • GLIDE VENT SLIDING CASEMENT • BASEMENT UNITS • LAKEVIEW COTTAGE SLIDERS AND PICTURES • SWING LITE CASEMENT Nothing equals Wood Windows for warmth, comfort, convenience and beauty. Many a family will give the kitchen top priority in its pro- gram of home modernization, this spring. This reflects the fact that the kitchen has become an in- creasingly important room of the home in today's scheme of things. Not only must it be practical and efficient, but it must be cheerful and pleasant and coordinate with the home's decorating plan, sporting new colors and warmth to accent the richness of the companion rooms. To accomplish the feeling of spaciousness, so desired by to- day's home-m ak e r s, kitchen planners are turning to break- fast bars, appliance islands, room dividers and see-through shelving, all of which contribute to the effect of a truly extended living area. BETTER LIGHTING Proper lighting can do much to make a kitchen easier and more relaxing to work in. Make sure that you have an adequate general illumination fixture at, or near, the centre of the room. Local lights should be placed over the sink, range and other work areas. Finally, if you have wall-type c a b in e t s, illuminate the dark areas under them with special eye-saving, under-cabinet lights. Today's kitchens (and mo- dernized old ones) have a ',built- in" look. When your appliances are built into your cabinets or "stacked" into your base cabi- nets or counter tops, you no long- er have a roomful of separate appliances, but a unitized kitchen with everything where you want it. Your oven can be up at eye level. Your refrigerator and freezer can be hung on the wall, or installed in cabinets at eye level or under the counter. There are space-saving range- top units that swing up against the wall when not in use, others that slide out like drawers. Some imaginative homemakers install two ovens— side by side, or one on top of the other. CONVENIENT CABINETS Many old homes have enough cabinet space, but much of it is hard to get at without a ladder. The new kitchen cabinets are more compact and the contents are readily accessible. For instance, you can get cabi- nets with Lazy Susan rotating shelves inside special drawers to hold canned goods on their sides where you can see their labels, space-saving shallow drawers for linens, special flip- up shelves that hold your mixer and bowls, rollaway serving carts 'that tuck into the cabinet base, disappearing towel bars, con- cealed slots to hold trays, built- in planning desks. Best of all you need not do all of your kitchen modernization at one time. You can install a "starter" kitchen, and then add to it later as your needs dictate and .your pocketbook permits.