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There are times when every homeowner feels a little like the old
woman who lived in a shoe. Mothers trip over toddlers in cramped
kitchens. Party-givers juggle food, drinks and guests between small
living and dining rooms. Budding scientists and musicians compete
for territory in shared bedrooms.
What these people need is new living space. Most houses contain
a surprising amount of space that can be altered or ~dapted to a
variety of family needs. Attics, garages and basemenl s can be con-
verted into living areas. Porches can be enclosed. Finished interior
rooms can be more fully utilized-sometimes by removing walls to
open up small rooms, sometimes by installing partitions that divide
large rooms for disparate activities.
You can gain extra room in any of these ways, using only a few
basic elements. They are standardized and relatively simple. All walls
are built-or torn down-in pretty much the same way. Doors and
windows come as preassembled units from a mill, ready for installa-
tion. And modern ceilings and floors are now made of factory materi-
als specifically designed for amateurs to work with.
Even this amount of simple carpentry is not involved if you turn to
,,ready-mades"-prefabricated units that are used, often in ways
different from their original purpose, to ihelp you create the spaces
you need. Standard shelves and cabinets, mear~t to provide storage,
become a wall if set up freestanding to divide a large space (and they
still hold books or whatever). Wide sliding or folding doors become a
removable partition if hung across a large room-with the doors
closed you have two small, private sections or you can conceal a
work area, while opening the doors restores the large space when it
is needed. It is even possible to expand the house outward with
ready-mades. Rows of stock storm doors, set side-by-side and topped
if necessary with a prefab aluminum roof, transform an open porch
or patio into a room for all weathers.
Simple ready-mades are available at nearly all building-supply
dealers. But the same techniques used in installing them apply to the
much more elaborate "systems" sold in department stores and spe-
cialty shops. A customized storage unit, fitted to the available space
and containing a desk, liquor cabinet, stereo-perhaps even a folding
bed-can be permanently anchored employing the basic technique
for setting up an inexpensive bookshelf. Folding doors that are faced
with mirrors or with vivid decorator materials are hung in exactly the
same way as ordinary bifold or accordion doors. Even the dramatic
stainless-steel panels pictured on page 112-D are little more than
sophisticated cousins of modest wooden bypass doors and are hung
n virtually the same manner
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