The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-19
Othnon's Postwar House
By FREDERICK c. OTHMAN United Press Staff CorresnonAent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, Sept. 1s. (UP)- Many a government guy is sore about the housing situation, but that 9oesn't matter to you: get out your hammer on October IS and build any Kind of house you want.
 With pink marble bath tubs and gold door knobs, even for all the CPA and Allied War outfits can do about 1t.
 End Of federal control over home building had It's moments. The serl- ate small business committee ham, oled the big-wigs on the carpet 10 give em (you can't say the word in Q family newspaper for not letting folks build houses.
 3O-Day House
 OPAs Chester Bowles was in the hot seat and his ears were pink as he insisted that If price cell tngs came off new houses, imitation was inevitable. Sen. Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska said Gin SO many words) that Bowles didn't know what he was taking about.
 The boys were shouting at each other, when Chairman Tom Stew art received a message. He read 1t to himself and then he read 1t aloud; War Mobilizer John W. Snyd erannounced that restrictions on building would end next month.
 Ulp. End hearing.
 That's that, the details don't much matter and the argument about imitation from now on Is academic. The important thing Is that you can build your house in 30 days with no more flub-dub In triplicate than before the war.
 So all right. AS a prospective house builder. myself. I've been snooping around on the subject of how e postwar house should be built. At the Museum of Modern Art in New York is an exhibit of modern houses by a dozen of the country's greatest architects. I gave 1t a look. but must report that some of their ideas looked cock. eyed to an old-fashioned feller.
 I don't want a swimming pool out- side my bedroom window, or two private back yards, one for me and one for my bride.
 Brook In Living Room
 The designers had one scheme, however, that looked good. They used windows Of double and triple plates of glass with dead air space between so that you can have as much light as you want and still keep the place warm. Some of their walls were all windows.
 Frank Lloyd Wright, who once built house in Pennsylvania with a brook babbling through the liv- ing room, came up with a new one. Squack dab in the middle of the parlor he had a flower garden You could grow your own oranges there and pluck a banana fro myour pri- vate tree.
 One thing you might investigate before you build i5 radiation heat. Ing. This puts the heating pipes in ,he walls and the floors and does away with radiators and dirt. Warm bathroom tiles on cold mornings Iound about right for my bare feet.
 Water pipes that expand instead ,f burst when they freeze would Ieem to have their points: they're made of plasticS. |, Everlasting wall paper should work out, too, # you picked a pat- ern you still liked 20 years later. tS Q plastic deal that won't fade md can be washed with soap and water. The experts also are working n insulation of aluminium sheets he thickness of cigarette wrappers. They're tinkering with beams that { ermitts won't eat because they're concrete. They've got Ideas about Ight- weight bath tubs that need no , Ieavy supports in the floors. They're , on daylight at night, by I 1eans of hidden fluorescent lamps. Good luck friends and I hope your ew room doesn't leak. You may 1, ,ant to make 1t flat and keep a ond of water on 1t to cool the a oons beneath. {