The Better Homes Manual

Author : Blanche Halbert
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330418970
Total Pages : 807 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book The Better Homes Manual written by Blanche Halbert and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Better Homes Manual Good public policy involves provision for informing the general public on the practical details of house architecture, construction, and equipment, and each of the processes involved in the purchase or financing of the house and the management of the home. This is a field in which science is making rapid progress and in which there are, therefore, new processes to be brought to public attention, and where the results of large numbers of studies and experiments should be made accessible to all householders and homemakers. In this Manual are assembled the best contemporary statements obtainable on home ownership and financing, the methods of keeping the cost of the house down, points to be considered in the buying or building of a home, the selection of the site, and the fitting of the house to its site, the determination of architectural style and consideration of essentials in planning as well as the choice of materials to be used and selection of equipment for lighting, heating, ventilation, plumbing, and refrigeration, and the finishing of floors and walls. These are matters on which many government departments, state colleges, professional organizations, and periodicals publish thousands of articles of varying merit. The householder or home builder may be easily perplexed or confused by the quantity of the available information or material, much of which is biased, incomplete, or inadequate. Access, therefore, to the best of contemporary advice on these subjects saves time and effort and conserves public resources. Once the house is completed, and even before that time, problems of the selection and arrangement of furniture, selection of draperies, curtains, and pictures must be considered; and the setting of the house with reference to landscaping or the designing and planting of home grounds requires consideration, so that home and community values may not be impaired but actually enhanced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.