Owning a Home

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 221, 7 December 1927, Page 6

Owning a Home

'With the movement toward building up-to-date homes sweeping the country, the home owner who owns a home which is no longer modern, and yet cannot afford to build a new home, is apt to become very discontented and envious of his more fortunate neighbours. This is quite unnecessary inasmuch as it is entirely possible, with comparatively small expenditure, to entirely transform both the interior and exterior of a house. 'Within , partitions may be torn down, new floors may be laid, modern equipment may be installed and a score of changes ■made which will affect the beauty and convenience of the interior. But is is perhaps the exterior of the house in which alteration is most obvious. Possibly the change which is most noted of late is in the lines of the roof. A tendency toward the cosy, low hanging roof is distinctly apparent. Remaking the roof is not the Herculean task it would seem , and, since the roof of a house is usually the part which first catches the eye, its beauty is important.