Modernize for The Teen-Ager

Make roorn for the teen-ager

There were 5.7 million high school students in 1950. There arc 6.4 million now. By 1960, there will be 8.5 million.

If you have two or three years yet before your son or daughter will start wanting to bring the crowd home for snacks, dan,cing, games and television, that's none too much time to g'et vour house organized space-wise.

Some ways to evaluate your space planning are suggested by the National Lumber X{anufacturers Association :

Determine now whether your present home will be adequate, with or without remodeling; whether you may be better off to buy another house, perhaps older and larger, and remodel it to suit your family's needs; or, whether you can reasonably expect to afford a house that is both new and so designed that it will meet "growing up" requirements.

Without such planning, you may find that by the time you get around to adding an extra room or fixing up the basement, the rest of the house will be badly in need of redecoration. By organizing your work, you can spread out the projects and the expense in manageable "pay as you go" operations.

While basement recreation rooms or added-on rooms are desirable wherever possible to give the younger set a place of their own, there aie many homes where existing rooms can be converted to teen entertainment without too much strain on the rest of the house, the family, or the pocketbook.

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Here is a plan which one family follor,ved that solved teen space and manv redecoration problems in one operation:

The dining room and a rear porch adjoining it were converted to informal living use. The porch was enclosed, with wood awning windows along its length and cabinets at each end. One of the cabinets housed the television set. Wooden outdoor-type furniture of modern design was used. This enclosed porch became the television room.

The dining room was paneled in wood, for good looking decorative effect and to eliminate future redecoration expense. Wood cabinets for radio and phonograph and storage space rvere built in one corner. A larger window was installed between dining room and porch to make the dining room more cheerful and to give unity to the two areas. Snack bar and comfortable furniture completed the new informal living area. Floors of both dining room and porch could be danced e1-fsqau5e the dining room floor was hardwood and the porch floor was cement.

The parents liked the new set-up so well that they enjoyed having their own friends in for informal suppers in the new rooms. In addition, the wood wall paneling gave the dining room such a lift that the parents decided to give a similar modern treatment to their upstairs bedroom, rearranging that room as a combination bedroom and denfor a comfortable retreat when the teen-agers had both television and phonograph going full blast.

This is a case in which home modernization was carried out in connection with a teen-age project, leading to considerable increase in value of the home, as well as its comfort. ,li

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