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pe Af Pr avian Saturday, March 26, 1955 4 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Making Work For Housewife Pleasant Color Stains Decorate Kitchens Today's Kitchen Cabinets Fit in Almost Any Room BULTN cabinets are no longer confined solely to the kitchen. They can provide handy storage places in every room of a house ond even in the garage. Modern pine cabinets are attractive enough fo fit easily in the living room, dining room, bathroom and bedrooms. The wood of quality cabinets, whether fully assembled or knocked-down, can be finished to blend with other furniture. --- Standard kitchen cabinets can provide storage in other rooms for clothing, linens, china, silverware, books, records, cleaning equip- ment, toys and games. They can be arranged in floor-to-ceiling com- binations and as room dividers. if you plan to finish a basement or atfic, you may find cabinets handy to form a storage wall. KITCHEN CABINETS in your garage? Why not? They can keep the place uncluttered and you can install them yourself. You can build them or buy them ready made from your local lumber dealer. Ask | for stock pine cabinets in units to fit in the space you have to fill. { They're fine under a workbench, = WHEN A FRONT DOOR opens directly into the living room, here's @ way fo put up a storage partition to create a foyer. Standard stock pine kitchen cabinets are stacked to form a wall. A soffit above them is easily fashioned with plywood. books. One shelf can be left open for i -- ts can be i onl adder like A BUILT-IN VANITY in a bedroom provides a complete and efficient dressing table, relieves pressure on the bathroom and is much {cheaper to build than an extra bathroom or powder room. Stock lled under and around a wash basin. The towel rack shown in this sketch is easy to build on the job. The wardrobe cabinet is a stock unit that can be bought ready- li pz / SPRAY PAINTING TIP | A Sistoned spray from a paint a sigu of a dirty air 'ake off the cap and wash it ly in clean solvent. If air Toles need reaming, use broom straw or a ma ick linter. Never use a metal in- . | abrasive such as A SAFETY PAINT Non-skid paint, containing an pumice stone, can to prevent slips on steps and cellar stairs. It was developed to prevent crewmen from slipping inside military Wood Grain Preserved In New Hues (COLOR is the latest recipe for a livable kitchen. Colorful cabinets, countertops and floors appeal to the majority of women who want something different from the laboratory-style white kitchen. Many kitchens are now | decorated with the same care as any other room in the house. Along with this trend, makers of w cabinets and paint man- ufacturers have joined in con- siderable research on stains. Color-stains have resulted. These preserve the natural grain of wood and still provide the va- riety of shades people want to choose from. When used over clear ponderosa pine, the wood that is generally used for stock kitchen cabinets, they produce what is known as a "decorator" effect. The color is pleasantly soft and natural, sparing a kitch- en from the sheen of automobile finish. Here's a list of eight of the most popular stains: 1. Early American pine. A mild reddish stain. Use pecan oil stain colored to suit with ver- milion fluid oil tint. 2. Pecan pine. A uniform brown. Pecan oil stain. 3. Suntan pine. A light-to- medium warm tan. Use suntan stain or champagne. 4. Straw-tone pine, This gives a golden effect. Use bleached mahogany stain, 5. Blond pine. Use blond stain, wheat or platinum. 6. Platinum pine. A color stain on the gray side. Use driftwood stain. 7. Silver-gray pine. Wipe this stain with a rag when it is semi- dry. Use silver-gray, platinum or graywood stain, 8. Graywood pine. Gray paint thinned as desired. Some of the stains in the new assortment give a striking effect when the pine has been sand- blasted first. Usually only the doors and drawer fronts are sandblasted. The cabinet bodies, not sandBlasted, can be given the same stain, or they can be painted in a harmonious hue. You can get sandblasting done at any monument works. It's a ood idea to have the man who oes the sandblasting experi- ment on a sample piece of the BEFORE AFTER KITCHEN WALLS can be wasted space. Put them to use by lining them with cabinets. Color stains offer a wide variety for decora- tion of stock pine cabinets. You can preserve the natural wood grain and still have a hue to harmonize with other details of your decorating scheme. same wood first. Watch him as he does it and tell him when he gets the degree of sandblasting you want. Four color stains suggested for sandblasted surfaces are weath- erwood (thinned platinum stain), driftwood, wheatwood, and champagne. Most Cellar Water Comes from Roof More cellar dampness is caused by roof water than by underground water sources. Tests have shown that in most cases the ground water level is well below a cellar floor. Cellar walls can normally keep out the amount of rain water that falls on the ground next to the foundation. But when the greatly increased drainage of a roof is allowed to seep into the small areas next to house, cellar walls are sub- jected to a task for which they were not designed. How Various Shades Can Be Obtained ERE are directions for color staining wood kitchen cabi- nets. They were compiled after experiments on Seas ponderosa a in bled -down form. A knocked-down, or *"KD" kitchen cabinet is entirely pre- ded. It is ass led cut and and installed with a hammer and screw driver. For staining, ask for a sample piece of the same material the cabinet is made of. Try the color stain on this sample piece and apply a finish coat of varnish or lacquer to see the effect. If the sample is suitable, proceed with the job as follows: 1. Clean the wood surface of all dust, dirt and grease. 2. Apply the stain and wipe it off to get the desired depth of color. The longer the stain is allowed to penetrate before wip- ing, the darker the color be=- comes. 3. Apply one or two coats of clear, satin varnish (dull finish varnish) or lacquer. 4, Sand lightly between coats to keep surfaces smooth. If sandblasted effects--to raise the grain--are desired, proceed as follows: 1. Have the do fronts sandblaste ment works, 2. Clean off all dust with a ned with a solvent s and drawer at a monu- 3. Apply stain, thinned more of i because sand- blasted pine absorbs more stain. Apply finish to sample piece be- fore going farther with project to judge results. 4. After stain has dried, sand very lightly with a sanding: block and e sandpaper. This removes the stain from the high ig of the wood and high- ights the grain. 5. Dust and apply one or two coats of dull finish varnish of the non-yellowing type, or clear lacquer, Sanding Is Important . Sanding is one of the most important phases of floor finish- ing. The est finish you can buy will not make a poorly sanded floor look like anything but a poorly sanded floor. | Making N UST the kitchen sink be placed at the window, or is that desirable window space being wasted in the modern kitchen? Does the housewife of today have to stand while working in the kitchen, or can she work while comfortably seated at a counter? Those questions came up when we decided to modernize our kitchen. : Kitchens seem to be designed by men who must think that today's housewife spends . all her time at 'he kitchen sink, This has resulted in placing the sink beneath the window. We decided the kitchen sink need not occupy the window space. We placed a counter sev- eral inches lower than the standard 36-inch height, with clear space beneath, at the win- dow. is counter, at which the housewife can be seated, is gen- erally used for food preparation. Located between the refrigerator and the stove, it seems to be used more than any other count- er space. The counter is constructed of 3%-inch plywood, covered with plastic laminate' to fch the other countertops and edged with stainless steel. This top is fastened to a framework of 1 tanks and is now widely used plagts, - oi igdystrial by 3-inch pine. i The framework is screwsd to Use of a Window | WORK TABLE wins window space from the kitchen sink. the window frame and to the adjoining [Sunes at the left. The opposite corner is Supperied by one chromium pla leg of 1-inch pipe. The pipe is thread- ed to fit into a flange on the underside of the counter and into a steel foot fastened to the floor. A rubber crutch i; have been used in piace of the The length of the leg should be = measured careful} , but slight inaccuracy can com- pensated by adjusting the leg in the threaded flange. --~