Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-29
CELLAR TO BE ATTRACTIVE
PART OF THE MODERN HOME
New Designs of Heating Apparatus
Strengthens Intentions Of Builders
to Develop Easements

Announcement Of the new designs
of heating apparatus which have
reached local builders has strength
ened their intention to develop cell
lars of their new housing projects
into clean, comfortable workrooms.
where the housewife may. onaEatesthe
washing machine, and where her nus
band may bring his friends on In
spectioh tours.
The new styles in furnaces. are no
longer constructed merely for service.
They are actually things of beauty.
shining with nickeled and polished
parts and artistically designed.
Advertisements of different types
picture the boiler casing polished and
symmetrical. It is edged with nickel
Round about it are no more the dis
NAL, cavernous shades of the ancient
cellar. Not at all; this pearl Of the
forge is standing on tiles Of gay
warm hue Behind it are immaculate
walls. Nearby is q bright staircase
that Sir Christopher Wren might have
designed. A couple Of exotic plants
may wave their f,onds at the bottom.
Views Heating Plant.
Sometimes the picture is enlivened
with human creatures. Mrs. Newly
wed, in a $1,000 breakfast gown. has
been taken by her maid to view the
heating system. She has never been
in a cellar before. You can see by
her. expression Of delight that she in
tends to visit the furnace frequently
and perhaps learn its mysteries.
Or a plumber may be showing the
beautiful device to the new owners of
a house. He is telling them what a
pleasure it was to put the furnace in
going to have out OF 1t. In either of
these cases the cellar is revealed as
an unfamiliar room of daylight. No
beams that bump the head, no cob
webs, no broken shovels in the cor
ner, no mess of ashes waiting to be
taken away; all is as clean. roomy
and radiant as q drawing ROOM
With prices as they are, the cellar
il worth twice as much as it used to
be, Every square inch now occupied
with old brooms, vagrant pickle bot
ties and ruined coal scuttles should
sweetness and light. And this is the
very season. for subterranean reform.
Find Dozen Opportunities.
In the furnace room. where the new
movement is born, the householder
will find a dozen opportunities to show
his artistic feeling. The wooden wall
which holds the coal in its bin may be
painted brightly. except when the
owner prefers to use teak or old oak.
The side walls may be finished in
whitewash or cream enamel.
The floors, unless it is desired to lay
filing. should have coat of con-
crete varnish.
The washing of the windows ought
TO bes done carefully. A cellar win
dow that has lived all it's life without
a bath may crack under the strain.
The furnace itself need not be paint
ed all white. but it will enjoy having
the accumulated dust of decade
wiped from its kind face 1t Will be
lust as we'll, now that the lighting
season approaches. to remove from
the top of the furnace, the various
containers Of raisins, sugar and water
that have been put there to await
chemical developments.
In the laundry the Housewife VIII
direct the improvements. which in
clude cleaning and oiling. the wash
ing machine, polishing the brass taps
IN the tubs, the replacing that stingy
carbon lamp with modern indirect
lighting device, driving new nails for
careful treatment Of ceiling. walls and
floor SO as to produce that immacu-
late appearance which the better cell
lar urge demands.
Labor Well Repaid.
The labor is, well repaid by the re-
suit. A man in good health can pol
ish a copper hot-Water boiler in about
the time it would take him to COM
piete thirty-six holes Of golf.
In the cellar proper, that large room
uhich ia taken up with trunks, side
tracked ash cans lawn mo nsar bs eae
and whatnot there is the greatest
Opportunity for making life below
| stairs more worth living.
Real estate men tell US that now
adays when a pair of prospects visit
q house the first act OF the man is
to plunge into the cellar for min
ute inspection OF it's size and at
mospheric qualities. II. as is widely
suspected. men are now spending ia,
i used to, their comfort and their sense
! Of the beautiful should, inspire then
to tidy things up. We fancy that In
i some Of the cellars where the fur
mace is kept az beautiful as re-
frteerator. the owner has sought Z