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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Tuesday, March 30, 1954 THE KITCHEN TODAY, from the same angle, showing how the breakfast room has been merged into the scene. Note cellar door at left in both pictures. Ae right, flanked by tilework js a modem range with ventilating fan above. Adjoining is a double sink and dishwashes worked THE. ORIGINAL KITCHEN was in a sad state, presenting plenty of problems. Here John A. Carlton Js., home on leave from the Navy, lends a hand. The door and window behind him were ripped out to convert porch to breakfast room. ine $525 budget. Here Is Glamor on a Budget THE KITCHEN -- woman's worshop and man's first love -- is the place to start modernizing a house. "You can sleep in almost any room temporarily. When the lights are out, you can't see plaster eracks, holes in the ceiling, or stained and fadec wallpaper. "You can get along without the formality of a living room until Jou have time to it up. "But you have to eat, and eat well, when you tackle the work of remodelling an entire house--when re doing it yourself and burn- of Sot more energy than you 4 behind a desk in an office. "So the kitchen comes first." THIS IS THE WAY John Carlton, a do-it-yourself champion sizes it up. And he ought to know. He made fhe kitchen his greatest triumph in modernizing an old eight-room house from top to bottom. He did virtually all of the work himself in his spare time and without a lgt of money. In fact, his Sost. ac- counting, best exemplified in the kitchen project, is one of the most amazing parts of his modernizing story ® One look at the kitchen made Mrs. ne gasp. "How ean this place ever be eleaned up and made livable?" ter that had fallen the The oven door on an Old gas stove had fallen of, revealing a hopeless- | ne ly rusty interior, Exposed pipes were rusty and rickety, woodwork was blistered and peeling from too many coats of paint piled on top of ene another, "Don't worry--it ean be done," Carlton said. AFTER CLEANING the house thoroughly, he called for bids on fixing up the kitchen. The lowest estimate, not including everything he wanted, was $1,500. The highest, still leaving out several wanted items, was $3,000 "I'll do the job myself," J declared. He not only did it, Dat Je Bis total expenditures to $524. 10, includ- ing an automatie dishwasher, a le sink, a modern stove, cabinets, in" doubl gleaming white laid linoleum, wallpaper, a new ceiling, enetian blinds, ecur- tains, -- and room converted out of an old glass- ed-in porch. w 23K Carlton. how he did it and Il answer in his calm Southern a "Well, it took a lot of doing, you know -- planning and plenty of shopping around and just wor away every minute I could spare." SHOPPING AROUND was a big rg in keeping his cost down-to "Cabinets cost a lot of money if you buy them new," he explains. "But #f you use a little grease, Saud off Shick coals of oid of old paint and then apply a g grade of enamel, you can make bea utiful cabinets out of old ones. get special enamels for me! , are now Jnarketing th the same 'of enamel used in industry for HERE 1S the bill of expendi-|} for the modern tures Cariton's kitchen: Hanging wall eabinet........ Base . Radiato Wallpaper Paint Ventilating fan. BX cable Outlet boxes . Linoleum ... Stove Double sink, dish- washer and plumbing Ceiling Wallboard Kitchen table Venetian blinds .. ishing refrigerators. find the 'This section of base me only $12 and that hanging wall cabinet came to $13.60. The reaso they were second dang refinishing. : |around and moved the cabinet, eut off one third of it and turned it 'L' shape in the corner, built shelves to fill it wu match all the aD bo By ge CARLTON FINISHED his kitch- is a rich maroon, cabinets, ove, rigerator and "dishwasher white. Wallpaper has a small be i pattern on a white back- Ee breakfast Joon is ast led and fitted wil ' AND HERE'S A VIEW of the same kitchen looking ia from the THAT REFRIGERATOR in a breakfast room, showing how an unneeded doorway-was deco doorway is novel whea it comes sated to form & recess for the sefrigeratos. frigerator back from usable kitchen | . ce. Scalloped millwork lew shelves above the re- faor | ceiling (note hole) and ex posed rusted pipes were among 'eyesores. ol stove -had lost jan oven door. PLASTER fallen from ! 00 space saving. THE SAME CORNER today, showing modern cabinets Carlton converted from ad old sink instaliation. He put on a ply top, covered it with linoleum and wimmed the edges -wi chrome. Me bought and refinished cabinets on wall and si wnit shown at the left. Ceiling is new.