Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-02
Your Second
- House
How Would You Build Il II You
Had Chance7

DOUBTLESS you have hearA |
the statement that you nevei
are qualified to make plans g
a house until you have made fail
ure OF your first and are ready t.
begin on your second.
That is stretching the matter
perhaps. But naturally enough
there are lots OF things that II never
occurs 10 You to think about until
you have lived In a house OF your
own designing.
Here are some OF the things that
group OF housewives. all OF whom
are living in houses OF their own
planning mentioned as things they
would pay heed to in the building
or n second house.
A downstairs coat and hat closet.
This was the thing that seemed
most important to woman with a
family OF young children. No mat
ter how small the house. said she,
there would be a closet where hats,
coats. rubbers and umbrellas, tennis
rackets, etc. could he put away out
OF sight on the ground floor of the
house. II possible there would be
a wash basin. a window and accom-
modation for separate wall space
for each member of the family.
One housewife vows that when
she builds her next house she will
have the laundry built around her
electric washer. so that she win
have the proper arrangement for
hlling the washer with water and
draining IL To begin with. She
thinks that Il would save money 10
have this attended to at first instead
OF having to make special arrange
ments for hose and drain later on.
Another housewife insists that
she would have "A screened in porch
of her dining room with a door into
the kitchen or pantry. Many extra
hours could be spent outdoors IL 1,
were possible TO eat meali outdoors
i'm good weather during summer and
autumn.
Then there is the question of a
cleaning closet that seems para
mount TO one woman who has had
To find accommodation for mop and
vacuum cleaner. brooms and dust.
pans In corners of the kitchen and
pantry for years. She would have
special closet 10 hold these things
with a low sink and running water
for filling and cmptying pals. witt
shelves for holding soaps and scour.
ing powders. floor oil and varnish
paints and brushes, with pegs foI
duNclothes and with folding raci
whereon to dry wet cleaning cloths
\ small window is part of her idea
preferably one in which sun shine
Ter part OF the day.
And another woman thinks tha
II there were a tiny closet abov
stairs where. broom and dust mo
and busters and other paraphernali
for upstairs everyday cleaning Nigh
be kept--then her house would b
perfect.
There is the ever -perplexin
problem OF where to put the refrig
orator SO one housewife who ha
a charming little house. but who's
refrigerator must b. housed in In
kitchen or cellar. goes about maxim
IAstiiN VI AiAAAt hAiAlAlDfS tNilk Iltf
or there to hold her Refrigerator
and many women plan that whe
they build another house this W.
he one of the first problems I
tackle-this of having a specis
place for the refrigerator where III
iceman can go without tracking tn
Kitchen floor and which will be "a
enough from the stove so that n
ice will be melted by that.
Then there are windows. Ho
many houses would be twice q
comfortable IL only there were wir
dows where now there are none
one thing. and this is the idei
about which one young housekeep'
dreams. desirable is all corner bee
rooms. This is quite possible In
small house-four bedrooms on Il
four corners. Then cross draugh
are possible in every room. Ar
this makes for better ventilation
all times and for greater GOODNESS
summer.