VALUE OF GOOD FLOORS

Evening Star, Issue 21254, 8 November 1932, Page 2

VALUE OF GOOD FLOORS

A FEATURE FOR DISTINCTION Good floors make the house so far as style and appearance gp. Poor floors in a good-looking house have much the same effect as shabby shoes worn with a modish costume. The eye of the beholder invariably fastens on the weak spot. Good floors also pay their way in comfort, cleanliness, durability, and the ease with which they 'are cared for. Modern flooring is so made that there is no possibility of dirt accumulating in the cracks, since it joins as smoothly and closely on sides and ends as if the entire floor were made in a single piece. There can be no splinters, no tripping, no squeaking if properly laid. One can have coloured floors nowadays and still have the beautiful, gleaming finish which is every housewife’s pride, for the colour is now in the form of a stain which brings out the full beauty of the grain, over which the final hard finish is put on. A good floor of today cannot be spoiled by hot or cold water or even acids, and its finish will withstand a good deal of hard treatment. There is nothing about the house that offers a better opportunity for beautifying and toning up its general appearance than the floor. If your homo has an old, worn floor, unattractive, hard to keep clean, you can have a new one laid over it in a few hours, and thereby transform the room. The old floor makes the best kind of sub-floor ; since it is thoroughly seasoned if it is well laid, and this adds much also to the warmth. CAMOUFLAGING OLD HOUSES. Several of Wellington’s old corrugated iron-walled houses have been camouflaged lately. In two cases the houses, which stand side by side, previously had plain fronts of iron, unprepossessing to a degree. Battens were fixed in position and wire-netting stapled on an inch or so from the wall. “Rough cast” was then applied and new window and door frames fitted. The result is an appearance that, though by no means up-to-date, is greatly improved.