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House & G ar d e n 
A (o cpiace Like Home- 
and still time enough to build it—'Njow— 
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to your own door step —for of all pos' 
sessions, there is nothing like home. 
Arkansas Soft Pine 
spells “Home and Happiness.” It is the 
right wood for the house complete, 
inside and out; for woodwork that 
delights the feminine eye—for staunch 
frame and structure that suit the ex' 
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Arkansas Soft Pine Bureau 
1015 Boyle Building 
Little Rock • Arkansas 
If You Are Going To Build 
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more intimately with the wide clapboard 
construction, and with the return of the 
Colonial architecture to widespread pop¬ 
ularity the use of the essentially appro¬ 
priate clapboard is well worth a bit of 
study. 
Probably no wall is more friendly and 
pleasant and easily laid up than the 
shingle; this is true both of the natural 
wooden shingle and the asbestos shingle. 
The wooden shingle can be used for a 
variety of houses, from bungalows to 
Georgian buildings, it comes in so many 
colors, different sizes and irregular out¬ 
lines, can be made so durable with a 
promise of fireproofing, that the appeal 
is practically nation-wide in this coun¬ 
try. Some of the finest old Colonial 
houses on Long Island are made of the 
hand-rived pine shingles, and certainly 
they must have survived the rude winds 
and brilliant suns of a century or more. 
The durability is partly due to the fact 
that the old hand-made nails rusted only 
on the surface and this rust formed a 
sort of protection to the nail, whereas 
the modern steel nails rust down to the 
very point. As a rule a wall made of 
machine split shingles put on with steel 
nails will not last over twenty-five 
years. At one time all factory-made 
shingles were very smooth and even and 
uninteresting, but today different sur¬ 
faces are gained by the process of split¬ 
ting the shingles; uneven edges are 
shown and an immense variety of de¬ 
lightful colors. 
Wooden House Framework 
The foundation for shingle and clap¬ 
board houses is first of all the frame 
woodwork or upright supports. On this 
are laid the rafters and over the frame 
woodwork is a wooden sheathing, cov¬ 
ered with building tar paper. Inside of 
the house the plaster goes directly on the 
sheathing. No furring is necessary, be¬ 
cause the drying of a wooden house is 
from the inside out, instead of from the 
outside in. A delightful example of the 
uneven shingle surface of a wall is shown 
in one of the houses here. On this sur¬ 
face there is scarcely a shingle that does 
not vary from all other shingles, both in 
outline and thickness. The house is 
painted white, and as in time a softer 
tone is given, the effect will be that of 
an antique Colonial wall, intensified by 
the use of solid wooden shutters and the 
classic Greek doorway. 
The Problem of Paint 
The question of painting the wooden 
house is perhaps one of the most difficult 
problems the builder has to face. It is 
a matter that more or less must be left 
in the hands of the architect or builder 
or to certain reliable manufacturers of 
paint who sell it ready to use and who 
furnish, so far as it is in their power, 
a non-fadable mixture. Some builders 
much prefer to mix their own paint. 
Here again this is only feasible if the 
builder is a very dependable person who 
will give you the very best materials in 
his paints. If the linseed oil is a good 
quality and the white lead thoroughly 
divided and mixed with the oil, and each 
coat is given a chance to dry without 
moisture and dust, you will get a good 
result. Because of the uncertain weather 
conditions in this country it is usually 
necessary to add a volatile oil to insure 
the paint drying as rapidly as possible. 
This oil considerably lessens the good 
result if too much is used. Happily we 
have grown to feel today that a little 
fading of color is not the blight we used 
to consider it and so if our bright green 
blinds tone down a little, or our Holland 
blue shutters fade to a softer shade, in 
the main we are not worried, and even¬ 
tually, as is the case with a finely woven 
old rug, the toning process really adds 
to the beauty and satisfying charm of 
the structure. 
Reviews of Building Material Catalogs 
Those readers who are interested in a 
further study of the wall problem would 
find the following catalogs of valuable 
service. These do not exhaust the avail¬ 
able list, but they are ample for the 
purpose. 
“The Concrete Builder. Devoted to the 
Use of Concrete for Farm and 
Home.” Published by the Portland 
Cement Association, Portland, Ore. 
The use of cement blocks is shown in 
this pamphlet, for houses, stores and 
factory buildings. 
“The Expense-Proof Farm.” Published 
by the Lehigh Portland Cement 
Company, Allentown, Pa. 
This pamphlet gives general informa¬ 
tion for the handling and planning of 
concrete. It is well illustrated both by 
line drawings and photographs. 
“Doric and Gothic Brick.” Published 
by Western Brick Company, Dan¬ 
ville, Illinois. 
The use of brick for picturesque ef¬ 
fects is set forth in this book in the 
text and the beautiful color illustrations. 
“The Cloister Brick. Its Origin and 
Effect LTpon Modern Architecture.” 
Published by Western Brick Com¬ 
pany, Danville, Illinois. 
A brick of character is shown in this 
pamphlet. Building material suited to 
construction of picturesque homes. 
“Herringbone Rigid Metal Lath. A 
Base and Reinforcement for Plaster 
and Stucco.” Published by the 
General Fireproofing Company, 
Youngstown, Ohio. 
A well illustrated little volume on 
the value of metal lath construction in 
ceilings, walls and partitions. Showing 
the use of stucco or cement sidings. 
Practical illustrations. 
“Self-Sentering. A Reinforcement for 
Concrete Floors, Roofs and Walls.” 
Published by the General Fire¬ 
proofing Company, Youngstown. 
Practical pamphlet on fireproofing 
construction, showing the value of ex¬ 
panded metal reinforcement for concrete 
construction where speed, economy and 
comfort are desired. 
“As a Man Liveth.” Published by As¬ 
sociated Metal Lath Manufac¬ 
turers, 901 Swetland Building, 
Cleveland, Ohio. 
“An ideal combination of economy in 
construction and maintenance, practica¬ 
bility and flexibility in architectural de¬ 
sign, beauty and permanence of struc¬ 
ture is secured by stucco on metal lath 
construction.” 
“White Pine in Home Building.” Pub¬ 
lished by White Pine Bureau, St. 
Paul, Minnesota. 
The romance as well as the practical 
story of white pine in the building of 
modern homes is told in this book. 
“Town and Country Buildings.” Pub¬ 
lished by the Southern Pine Asso¬ 
ciation, New Orleans, La. 
The suitability of Southern pine to 
home building is set forth in this book 
as well as its durability, moderate cost 
and beauty. 
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