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28 THE DAILY TIMFS-GAZETTE, Saturday. March 26, 1955 Plan To Make Most Of Open Places Some Rules For Windows In the Home Hew MUCH window space would you allow; for each room in planning or moderniz- ing a home? ost building codes accept not less than 10 per cent of the area of a room as the area for win- dows. But research shows that glass greas should be more than double that amount for proper lighting. Because windows can affect your comfort both physically and psychologically, the Univer- sity of Illinois Small Homes Council has worked out a set of new rules to be applied to win- dows in an ideal house. "Provide glass areas in excess of 20 per cent of the floor area of each room." That is the first rule. And the experts suggest that much more is. desirable, especially for cloudy days. South Is Brightest "Place the principal window areas toward the south except in warm climates where a north- ern orientation will limit heat from the sun." This rule is based on the fact that the south sky is the brightest. Direct sunlight |; can also be controlled easier on the south than on the east and west." "Windows in more than one wall of a room give more ef- fective daylighting than win- dows in just one wall." Also one large window provides a better distribution of light than the same amount of space devoted to separate windows with dark areas between them. Extending window heights as close to the ceiling as possible lengthens the depth of light penetration into a room. Watch Your Curtains Draperies, curtains and other window hangings should be placed above the head of a win- dow and to the sides of the frame to free the entire glass area for light. "Dark, heavy draperies hung over the sides and top of a window can reduce the available daylight by 75 per cent," the experts found. "The practice of pulling window shades one-fourth or one-half way down results in loss of light in the rear of the room where it is needed the most." : When it comes to ventilation, the research showed that more than 10 per cent of the floor area of a room should be matched with windows that open. "Screen only those parts of the window that open for ven- tilation," the council advises. "Full screens can absorb as much as 50 per cent of available hn alf-screens take up y 15 per cent." PAINT BY THE YARD Coated fabric wall coverings, popular for durability in kitch- ens, are now available in 21 new solid colors as well as in wall- paper designs. The material is scrubbable. da on 58-0" PRIVATE. PORCHES Se i =X) ONE BSE oe . INSPIRED by cobana terraces of Central America, this house has a series of private porches secluded along its rear garden side. Each bedroom has its own private porch set off at an angle fo retain increased privacy in the bedroom. Sliding glass walls separate bedroom and porch. A living raom porch at the side is walled in front to cut off the view from the street front. The main bathroom has two lavatories. A shower stall is planned large enough to accommodate a seat. A vanity-lavatory dressing alcove adjoins the master bedroom. This is plan 425M by Rudolph A. Matern, 90-04 161st St., Jamaica 2, N.Y. The house covers 1,363 square feet without garage and is pl dforab 1} Each Species Of Wood Has Special Use A5MOsT every kind of wood has a special or distinctive use. Here are some examples compiled by the U.S. Depart- ment of Agriculture: ASH---Handles, vehicle parts and farm implements. BASSWOOD -- Fixtures and furniture BEECH--Woodenware, floor -- Millwork Ni --Posts, poles, boats and shin- gles. ERN WHITE CEDAR --Boat and tank stock and poles. RED CED. CHERRY--Electrotype blocks and furniture. pe CHESTN farm containers and parts. SOUTHERN CYPRESS Greenhouses, silos, tanks and construction. DOUGLAS FIR -- Construe- tion. SOFT ELM -- Cheese boxes and containers, ROCK ELM---Cooperage and farm Jmplements. BALSAM FIR--Pulpwood and light farm SonsHuetion. Bill RED -- Furnit work, fruit and v etable boxes, HACKBERRY--Furniture and some auto bodies. HEMLOCK~--Construction. HICKORY -- Implement han- dles and baseball bats, WESTERN LARCH -- Con- struction, BLACK 1ocUse = Fence posts insulator pins HARD MAPLE -- Fioorin, furniture, farm implements an machine parts. SOFT MAPLE--Furniture and faym fuel. * RED OAK -- Furnitur ing, implement parts an construction. WHITE OAK -- Cooperage, furniture, flooring. PONDEROSA PINE -- Mill- work, planing - mill products, floor- farm tion. SUGAR PINE -- Patterns and millwork. -- Furni- ELLOW ture and millwork. REDWOOD -- Tanks, silos, planing-mill products and con- struction. BPASTERN SPRUCE--Musical instruments, pulpwood, farm senshucon. ruction, ENGLEMAN SPRUCE--Con- struction. SYCAMORE--Boxes, baskets, crates and millwork. WALNUT -- Furniture and millwork. . MEXICO By JACK RUTLEDGE MEXICO CITY (AP)--Mexico has reacted to the do-it- yourself hobby with an indif- ferent "Why?" Labor is so cheap that Mexi- cans who can afford a hobby prefer one with more prestige and glamour. "We don't even stock the do it-yourself gadgets," says Jack Ruddy of Salinas y Rocha, Mex- ico's largest gaparsment store chain. "The hobby just doesn't click down here." For centuries the lower classes out of pure necessity have been *doing-it-themselves" --building adobe homes, making their own simple furniture, even weaving cloth for their clothes and*mold- ing pottery for kitchen needs. They still do. The middle class, which has made do-it-yourself a six-bil- lion-dollar-a-year business in the United States, is comparatively small in Mexico. And Mexico's middle class IS MYSTIFIED BY DO-IT-YOURSELF HOBBIES shuns the hobby for several rea- sons. For one thing, many of this group have just pulled them- selves out of the lower bracket, and doing manual labor could mean loss of face. A major reason is that the salary of the average white col- lar worker or government em- ploye is too small to finance the necessary gadgets, which would cost more here because of high import duties. Take a man making 600 pesos ($48) a month--not an unusual income. To get a $200 lathe he would have to cough up 2,500 25.0 $100 drill press would 1,230 os. Even a simple utility drill means 500 pesos, al- most a month's pay. That leaves the upper class as potential do-it-yourselvers, and even in the United States this group produces few such hob- byists. Those of the Mexican upper class could easily afford the esti- mated $2,000 needed to provide the outfit a complete hobbyist needs. But other hobbies appeal to them more. And a rich man who prefers to sit home and make a table to playing polo or even golf is considered eccentric. Put yourself in the place of a middle class Mexican making, say, as much as 2,000 pesos ($160) a month: He has a small home in the suburbs which he is paying for on installment plan. The in- stallments take up a sizeable chunk of his pay. But he's a proud homeowner and wants an attractive place. He wants it to look nice to outsiders, so that means a lawn and flowers. Should he pay about 1,875 pesos for a power mower when he can hire a man to cut his lawn for maybe 10 pesos every two weeks? Or say he wants a painted shelf in his closet, covered with fringed paper. Merely assem- bling the necessary material is complicated. He'd have to go to one store for paint, another for lumber, a third for Jupporta; a fourth for paper. It's far easier --and cheaper--to pay a carpen- ter about 20 pesos a day to de the footwork as well as the wosdwork J Hcularly as the tolls nx would rum inte hundreds of pesos. Well, you say, how about pride of accom t? can is artistic rather nude over the mantlepiece say "I did that" than boast a handmade fence around the y Shellac's Drying Time Shellac is quick ening dust-free wi 0 utes, but it should not be on, even lightly, in less hour. For t res least three hours and