SUGGESTED HOME IMPROVEMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 21218, 27 September 1932, Page 2

SUGGESTED HOME IMPROVEMENTS

Bathroom. Tilo or line walls with tinted and polished abestos sheet or with pulp board enamelled. Install a basin, a cast-iron porcelain enamelled bath, shower tray or cubicle, low-down flasher, new floor in cork, torrazzo, or tile, or a polished asbestos sheet behind the basin. Kitchen. Install gas or electric range, or an electric element for hot water; panel walls in polished wall board or use special washable wall paper. Remove mantel and substitute slab facings in colour required; line recess with the same. Back Kitchen.

Lino the room, remove brick copper and substitute pumice, fuel or gas. Consider washing machine. Remove wooden sink-top and substitute terrazzo of larger size. The use of pumice copper and concrete tubs, being compact, permits of this usually. Living Room. Repaint and decorate. Substitute modern tile slabs with hot-water back grate. General,

Have extra vents put under floor. Remove borer boards. Examine hotwater supply cistern in ceiling and if showing rust spots substitute copper or concrete cistern. Have floor electrically sanded throughout. Get borders varnished or polished. Paint house or all-wood facings and window frames.