One of the best investments for a home that you can possibly make, is the time spent in preliminary planâ€" ning. For most people, the purchase of a home réepresents the largest <single financial transaction in their livesâ€" so why not give it serious and careful consideration? Fortunately there is help available from various sources, Take advantage 0of this opportunity. Study home magaâ€" Zines forâ€"ideas you can convert to your use. Get a good stock plan book that shows houses designed by experienced architects. These can often be obtained through your lumber. dealer ur by writing to certain . homeâ€" magazines. Many Ideas will be Found on This Page Each Monday. Other Help Available. Preliminary Plans for a Worthy Home Timmins a Well Known Centre for Building Supplies "Head Office: Schumacher Phone 708 For Permanent Beauty and Dependable Weather Protection, Specify BARRETT‘S ROOFING J. St. Onge, Decorator With their weatherâ€"surface of everlasting mineral in red, green or blueâ€"black, they add to the appearance of any home. Barrett Shingles are staunchly weatherâ€"tight. They neither rot nor rustâ€"never need painting. Moreover, they make your home Bring new beauty to your home by haviag your walls redecorated. â€" Just phone 067â€"J and we will gladly call with a full range of new wallpaper samples . . . REâ€"PAPER It‘s rear 92 Tamarack Street ime to As soon as possible, determine the amount of money you are going to be able to spend for a home, for this will be the controlling influence throughâ€" out its construction. The number of rooms, their sizes, types of heating, Percy Youlten is having a new home built on Cherry street near Sixth aveâ€" nue. J. P. Roy is the general contractor. get comparative ideas. Incidentally, it will pay you to welcome any salesmen who may call for they are a source of valuable information which may be yours for a little courteous consideraâ€" tion. out its construction. The number of rooms, their sizes, types of heating, roof material, exterior material and everything else is going to be influâ€" enced by this item. Btudy floor plans, room arrangement and style, for this is the background from which your home will be evolved. Study advertisements found in newsâ€" papers and write manufacturers for descriptive literature of his product. You‘ll not be dgeluged by as many siesâ€" men as you might think and you will cet compnparative ideas. Incidentally, it ind â€" for Mill Office: Timmins, Phone 709 Here‘s an Attractive Inexpensive Cottage (By Home Features Service) In true summer cottage style cottage may well be christened Estimates for Home Similar to This Run as Low as One Thousand Dollars. They Call Summer Cottage "Lazy Days." This is a picture of the house referred to in the and yet one that will provide lots of comfort. 7 be followed religiously but changes may be made noted before, the descriptions and illustrations > rather than imperative, This is a Cottage that Will Appeal to Many THE POARCUPTHE ADVANCE, TYTMMINSA, ONTARIO 1 7%, For those who prefer an arraki ment with separate bedrooms, the chitect has included on the wor! drawings, an alternate plan to y those requirements. Further sleej accommodations may be obtained the use of a studio couch as patr the decorating and furnishing sch for the living room. With that ac sory, this little cottage will easily ccocmmodate six people. The kitchen, while small, is conyv ently arranged and will adequa serve its purpose. exterior walls are of shingles and vertical siding, the fireplace is of stone and the roof is of wood shingles. â€" Careful thought in planning is eviâ€" dent in a study of the plan. The huge lounge acts as both living and dining room, and opens through a passage, at either side of which are small closâ€" ets, to a screened porch. Sleeping acâ€" ccmmodations for four people have been ingeniously provided by means of double deckeq bunks separated from both the living room and porch by folding board shutters. This arrangsâ€" ment allows the beds to open into the living quarters on cooier nights and onto the porch when the nights are warm. serve its purpose. The interior walls may be left finished or they may be covered any one of the numserous plaster insulating boards available toâ€"day extent of use the little cottage wi ceive may determine this. The fireplace is adequate to heat aurin cooler months. Thne working drawings should carefully followeq to bring forth charm so feelingly portrayed in picture. With proper setting this little tage can furnish happy escaps d the summer months from city and humdrum hustle and strife.e In answer to his dream comes the picturesque and practical place pictured above, which we have styled our weekâ€" end house. In its simplest form and with the bathroom temporarily omitâ€" ted, it is estimated that it can be built for less than a thousand dollars. The ï¬np,l ycost should be less than two cusand dollars. he exterior walls are of shingles and vertical siding, the fireplace is of stone and the roof is of wood shingles. â€" Careful thought in planning is eviâ€" dent in a study of the plan. The huge lounge acts as both living and dining room, and opens through a passage, at either side of which are small closâ€" HOUSES AT THE DOME ALL EQUIPPED ELECTRICALLA Reference was made recently in The Advance to »sixteen new houses conâ€" structed at the Dome by Hillâ€"Clarkâ€" Francis. These houses were all wired by the Armstrong Electric of Timâ€" miIins HOW TO ADD TO THE BEAUTY O0F THE WALLS OF THE HOME Gloomy, chipped walls will spoll the interior appearance of any home. It is possible toâ€"day to very economically repair, replace or cover over these walls Days." Summer with its carefrse day beneath a cloudâ€"specked sky suggest that thoughts stray from the nerve wracking hustle of busy city and to pleasanter things. The office worke dreams over his idle pencil of som: lake or mountain stream and of th little cottage which some day he wil build. adding beauty wall b beauty of your home. Panelling with wall board or plywCog in the living rcoms, wainscoting in the dining room, kitchen or bathroom; plaster=â€"or wallâ€" board in the bedrcoms; will make. the home look years younger. In the attic or cellar new rooms may be added by a few partitions and by applying new materials over the unfinished or unatâ€" tractive wall surface. both to ‘ad joining column. It is an in The details given in the articlk e to suit the individual needs ; ‘.ublished on this page are n durability and the Panelling with wher elect There i switches homes i dark an we don‘t venience that the There be done more u percoila located height, washin Whatever your actionâ€" much study and consid problems confronting y needs. (By Katherinse Fishe House wiring is like idea of weather: we tal but do little to remezdy unsafe. tacked : radiator do â€" fras tacked to baseboards, and Tun Dack 01 radiators invite serious accidents. Bo do frayed cords, broken plugs, and worn appliances. Keep your electrical equipment in good repair, and do not have makeshift wiring. In this woy you can enjoy the benefits of electricity with pserfect safety.: Have Home Wiring Safe and Convenient is Com furthser ~Dundas Star:â€"Grandad was satisâ€" fied "with a gig and a gal; gqad wanted a flivver and a flapper; son thinks he must have a plane and a jane. Convenience will Cost Little, While it is Wrong to Alâ€" low â€" Dangerous _ Condiâ€" tions Through Neglect. as much na sible. If the if sloping In planning, adapt your hou room, dining least, for pleas 12@A pos hou emp ha arkK and t witch light The home riundryâ€"us lected. Ha Adapt Your New Home to Suit Lot and Locality in Inexpensl de UI 1l e maÂ¥} BUI and v lot a1 and meal ty )le 11rC If in the s WL rabl r} ind CC baseb 1} CAÂ¥ ULS Y an d â€"Uac harply MI OO kshop 1€ 11 1IY consid tha ran UI rees as you environment 16 thit hnhon 1Vt off. 11 n plu 1 K ha er, New York) e â€"Mark Twain ilk about it a lo nignt thing _ Plan the l1 ind kitchen e nouse wirin t can be adde ind at relative nged ITOor cor The result â€" of our pia ing 11 1 Y permanen In man ‘ope in th d forth t 10n Oof T particul 11 tenen an sadly n handv 6 daditiona 1J 1 1C 1M lU L 1 Lumber Industry Here Cheapens Home Building snack to a pal their permane en Fact that Timmins Makes and Supplies so Ma\ny Nocgssi- ties in Building Needs is of Great Value to Small Mines of District. 11 en though it may ; being in one corn Every home built cal labour, provid: l1 Yard and Officeâ€"19 STXTH AVENUE mmins are hundreds of skilled s who know the North, know g¢ requirements. Here ars careful ctors, long in business, who have ith of the buyers. They have the nent to btild anything from a to a palace, and this has become permanent headquarters. Rail ies, road and river all help to Timmins a distributing centré, hough it may appear on the map ng in one corner of the North. ry home built in Timmins helps labour, provides work for Timâ€" industries and adds to the perâ€" it assets of the town. The forâ€" > nposition as a distributing centre CGGILLTTL 4 4 ¢% * VR C * hy Â¥/ 2 *# P /‘,( ,,/’ ’1,1; #/ .' ty A / '/’ # RNWELELLE uBWVA M YÂ¥ Grvy. P 6 / P 7 2 74 / Eo0 position We will help you make your selection and prepare free helpful estimates. We will show ycu how to choose thv best materials. de and MA 16 fed It prin r perman vith conc eet jOngf Dy shop, 16 feet t by 20 feet; c rock bin 10 fe 15 feet high. On All These Very Important Matters 1¢ indred the 1 mil rtly ‘ at ti cal one. Here eds of skilled North, know ere ars careful aess, who have They have the ladm ) wWas daC isfactory Timmins rlldlir 1a n ret ine called ifterwards in Timber Mill, 40 prod Those found aâ€" done on ry and Dv 11 Conceal Otherwise Ugly Plumbing and Fixtures ‘aterproc nd wind "g. m % Dt 11 11 1t ibbit ither Nes lecfrical dlor 16G5 > PHONE 422 LC it