Identifier: ladieshomejourna65janwyet (find matches)
Title: The Ladies' home journal
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945
Subjects: Women's periodicals Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive
Publisher: Philadelphia : (s.n.)
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S very much pleased to visit the small country week-end how hich Hal Williams was remodeling, for I had especially liked the h iday house he designed for the Journal a few years ago. Now thatJournal was planning the kitchen in his house, I drove over the grspring hills to see it for myself. Here was a designer remodeling a not very inspiring old house instof building a new one. Why? I wondered, but soon learned that HaLfound this the most practical thing to do at this time. There are many!vantages in rebuilding rather than building an entirely new house tocj Future I i ring room will join house at leielhalfway between upper and lower Jloors. Materials and labor are scarce, and it takes a longer period to build a ::house than it used to. Better lumber than can be bought today is o;;found in a house built long before the war. When you strip down eveilugly house ami remodel, you have a sound nucleus for the new home,you can begin living in it usually before the rebuilding job is complt I
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PHDTos HY si t \KT WI1 l.I WIN 11 11 illiams bachelor kitchen invites friendly kibitzing as week-end fare is served forth. Equipment is compact but complete for a one-wall kitchen. Ill GL \I»VS TAKER JiThen I like the fact that you have the natural advantage ofestablished setting around the house. Trees and shrubs andMis have been settled there and growing for some time; you 0 t have that raw look. IMso, there are manv small houses still available here and there■e country which, with care and imagination, can be made over ■ something worth while, at relatively low cost. fal \\ illiams found his tiny week-end house that will grow, near■gh the city for week ends and vacation, and yet set in the deepUs on a wandering counti \ road, cool and shadowy in summer,fes small enough to make a practical house for a bachelor, but ■ to Expand for later increased usefulness. 1 front one-room wing and porch which had undoubtedly been■1 to the original structure were removed, leaving a smal

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