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The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 33

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tlT r- rrtvil Ml i i i i i i i i i i if TTf I I Des Moines Sunday Register Floor Plan of Model Home Built in Auditorium 9-M Section PHONE 6-SW House Built ln 2V2 Days for Big Show so 1Z4 TT Living I sow 1 1 ltdrom M'llt' THE NEW COLOR FASHION FOR HOLIES Bright Color No Shine Lo-Sheen Enamel U4 ma pirj mi 1 1 a At last here I an enamel which combine brightness of color and a subdued no-shine finish to ereato an entirely new kind of rich' beauts in paint color. If you want "right, gay eolor accent without a high glos. Kyanlze Lo-Sheen i the paint you need. yov pa7 ledreem ledroom I2'il4' to build or remodel order finest quality building materials from r. Thl i the floor plan of the model home of 1955, which overlooks six large floral garden in Veteran Memorial Auditorium.

The ranch home is S7 by 72 feet, ha three bedroom and a double garage. It i completely furnished. Kyanize Clingcote Scrubable Flat Wall ynm emu dm th mm rm -24- ftn for waMlwirli ton An for tl-n wftlte fcMa tt'i RAT iZitX qhscoti rwr rninnant; Kyanize Color-Spree Th Grtatttt AJvanetmtnt In Lalti ftrnli! MuMlti OvontliM! f-tlr ulfi l)rif! Prrfrrt Km "Un" Willi! Packman NEW PROGRAM ON HOME LOANS Center of interest at the Des Moines Home and Flower Show is the home builders' model home of 1955, a full-size six-room ranch home completely decorated, furnished and landscaped. Front windows of the model home look out upon the area of Six big floral gardens. From a picture window in the living room, visitors see a backyard living area designed for year-around beauty.

In 2i', Days. The model home, located at the east end of the main arena in Veterans Memorial Auditorium, is the product of months of planning and 5V days of intensive co-ordinated work by builders, carpenters, decorators, furniture men and other craftsmen. The house Itself Was erected In Vt days by workmen employed and supervised by member of the Home Builder Association of De Moines, working 24 hour a day in three shift from last Monday through Wednesday. Interior decoration was designed by Davidson's decorating studio, and Davidsons also furnished the home. Fixtures, heating and air-conditioning equipment were installed by other cooperating firms.

"I don't believe a comparable home has ever been completed faster, not "in Des Moines, anyway," said L. J. Rothfus, chairman of the builders' Home and Flower Show committee. 73 by S7 Feet. Size of the house indicates LUMBER COMPANY 1933 Hubbell Ave.

Armstrong Names 2 Sales Managers James Echternacht and Byron Mowatt have been appointed district sales managers for the Armstrong Furnace it was announced by George Zimbel-man, western sales manager. Echternacht will cover Nebraska and the Dakotas and Mowatt will cover Texas and Oklahoma. The western sales office is in the Insurance Exchange tlrSDf r'wH Hslrr! ALSYNITE tmm anil larcxt mitulurfnreT 4 th Nhri(lM pisrl tndmtry. Alonlte la rnt-prmt. milriexprmf.

Imprrvlnuo In trmn. T'l-mln sn4 tlr AUvnl li fir ttd and apprnvH hv Factor Mutual nt afftrtrd x-trrmn In umprratnrr. Hlfhlv mutant In arHt attark. Avallahl la twrntr lM-aril rolora ui4 efetra standar romiya- INTERIOR Glass Partitions MIRRORS For Wall or Door TABLE Desk Dresser Top SEE! OUt EXHIBIT I lli19SS Retail Stort Nt Vttarani Mtnarial Auditarlaai East lit and Court Avenu Dei Moinei 6, low Turf Department Phone 4-3231 Allen Buys Home Planning Service Jack Allen, who has been manager of the Home Planning Service, 910 Walnut for the last three years, has purchased the business from E. A.

Milligan and Sons. The company will continue to design homes and provide a drafting service for contractors, lumber dealers and individuals. Allen said a large number of house plans are now available. GLASS PAINT COMPANY FOR LAWN AND SUPPLIES HEADQUARTERS GARDEN 1101 Locust Phone 3-4287 A new program to assist prospective home owners obtain loans in communities were government-guaranteed gage programs are not active has been put in operation in Iowa. This is the voluntary home mortgage credit program, which ia assisting prospective home buyers or builders in obtaining FHA-insured or VA-guaranteed mortgage financing.

The program facilitate the flow of mortgage money from area where it i plentiful to area where it i scarce. Th assistance Is available regardless of whether they live In rural or urban areas. Under this program life insurance companies, banks and other lending agencies have expressed a willingness to consider loans from communities where local lenders have refused credit. This refusal of credit usually is because the lender does not want to enter home mortgage lending or does not have the facilities to handle this type of loan. Information on the program may be obtained by writing R.

P. DeBruin, executive secretary of the Voluntary Home Credit Program, Room 851-852, United States Courthouse, Chicago, 111. enter the U-shaped kitchen, which features American Kitchen wall unit of birch, copper and steel. There are drawers aplenty, and the dishwasher sink contains a rotating tray. Utility Room.

Off the kitchen, the utility room includes a' food freezer, water heater, washer and dryer. The furnace is in a space by itself, near the center of the house. From the utility room, you emerge to the 22-foot-wide double garage and then to a driveway with two new car parked on It. As you enter and leave the house, and look out the windows, you see the results of careful landscape planning. Flower.

Trees. Some 300 azaleas, 1,000 tulips and 240 other flowering plants are in the yard, spared, among 45 trees and shrubs, and over 1,150 square feet of sod. Curved borders and an open lawn are featured in front of the home, and the doorway is framed with a weeping willow and a white birch. There I a terrace at the aide of the garage. Bark of the house, evergreen assure all-year beauty, and flower add spring and summer color.

Fifty-four members of the Home Builder Auxiliary, taking turns serving three at a time during show hours, are acting as hostesses in the model home. Members of the Home Builders Association are present to answer questions about the house. Down In 3 Day. What will happen to the house after the show is over? "We'll have just two days to take it down," Rothfus explained. Much of the lumber and other materials will be salvaged.

Fixtures, furnace, appliances and furniture will go back to the stores they came from. ju, VENETIAN BLINDS with and these Outstanding levOlor NEW Toro Power Mowen Toro Power Tool Fertilizers Milorganite Armour's Vertagreen Swift' Vigoro Campbell's Gro Green Liquid Ra-Pid-Gro Liquid Lombard Chain Saws Garden Tractors Rotary Tillers Leaf Burners West Point Aerifiers Fertilizer Distributors Grass Seed Hudson Sprayers (hand 4 power) New Lawn Garden Cyanamid Dow Weed Killers PMAS Crab Grass Killer Garden Hand Tools Garden Hose (plastic 4 rubber) Lawn Sprinklers Lawn Rollers 4 Sweepers Hedge 4 Lawn Trimmers Hypnum Peat Moss features PLASTIC TAPE and SLATS ENCLOSED METAL HEAD fi(v that tmart tailnivii apprmnrc. anJ afford yrt mt tmuhk frfw pralHHi. GRACEFUL BOTTOM BAR Th marto a truly tupriur retina, antlchtly taplft, lark nr thai atar beautiful, al- krp thtr fthaftr. tluratlEM won't rui, fhip, rrark prrl.

lnt bounty riRht nit'. EASY TO CLEAN nt ran't gt grip won't fnd. fray, tihrink LLM promi4a you Win. the amount of work and materials required in Its construction. It is 72 feet long, including a double attached garage, and 37 feet from front to hark at its widest point.

It cover 1,564 square feet, plus the garage of 462 square feet. Material used included approximately board feet of lumber, 2,000 of siding, of plywood, 5,500 qnare feet of sheet-rock and SI square of shingle. The house is of frame construction, with wood siding except for stone across part of the front. Leisure Room. As you go through the house, you turn left into the central hall and see first a bedroom furnished ss a "leisure room" or television den.

Next you look into a bedroom decorated and furnished for the daughter of the mythical family living in the house. Then you see the bathroom, with colored, fixture and shnwer-tuh, and a soft-surfaced floor seldom seen in a bath. In the master bedroom at the 1 rear corner of the house, carpet, bedspreads and furniture are de- signed for harmony and room- DRAW DRAPERIES FREE ESTIMATES larg antpli)i hnwa In )ttr hini yon ran hariminUa VOIR Individual rolr and draratlni plan. vrr 300 patUrnii and rolnrt Kirrh traer rod. raonaht pHr.

Dining Nooks Custom Built Any Size or Shape Many Different Styles Available TO IDENTIFY A FINISH. Rubbing a small area of a wall with warm water will help identify its finish. If color comes off, the finish is water paint. It is calcimine, if the entire finish rubs off. If no color shows on the rubbing cloth, the finish is an oil or resin paint.

E-L-A-S-T-I-C Naugahyde revering Spring Cushions with Rubber Filling ALLIED BLIND CO. 1141 E. 7th. Eddie Mack, Owner Phone 62-2143 Chrome Pedental Formica Table Top sen ait HOME and FLOWER SHOW LOOK FOR ME GET THE JjKtf FACTS TC3 ll Wm MMaaaaaavj II to wMtilkaaa ii a ii mm iness. Transitional Style.

The long living room across the back is decorated in; transitional style, "not traditional and not ultra-modern," according to Davidsons. Furniture is arranged to make maximum use of space, without crowding. A drop-leaf table I used to "bring the dining area out of, the kitchen and Into the living room." From the dining area, you Installed Anywhere Including Free Delivery i-BURNETT UPHOLSTERY 601 So. 12th Ave. Marshatltown, Iowa 'Gentlemen: I am interested in 'your Dining Nooks.

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