November 1960

Children say this room is great! It's so easy to keep shipshape

Corner angling of appliance pair for more counter space

Need a new curtain idea? Try a tailored style

Could you wear contact lenses?

Millions of people wear contact lenses and wouldn't think of going back to regular glasses. This is nice to know, of course, but shouldn't send you rushing out to buy them before you know the facts--and before the right kind of professional has helped make your decision. Here are a few of the facts:

Island "wall space" for built-in oven and pantry

This kitchen planning center combines with pass-through

Extra room for guests--even in a small home

Cooking center geared for portable appliances

CROWN THE COOK

Hideaway laundry nook design complements period decor

Decorative shutters frame open kitchen area

Two different window ideas--in the same room

The right kind of wood for your fireplace

The flames that light and warm a room depend on the kind of wood you have to make a fire. Woods do vary in their heat value, fragrance, and flame color. Here are some facts you should know about firewood.

You can fool yourself into eating less

Everything for table-setting in cabinet near the table

This bookshelf gives headroom plus storage space

Convert unused closet space into a home office

Please don't just sit there--the least you can do is wiggle!

HOBBIES

EVERYONE WANTS a hobby. Everyone, in some way or another, needs a hobby--and not just an occasional evening at the bowling alley or a summer weekend on the golf course. We're talking about the sort of interest that can absorb you day after day, can continue year after year.

Would you change this house?

Somewhere in any house is a place to dine in style. The new furniture makes it easy!

Plastic panels turn the trick

Money for your recipes

TURKEY know-how

How to grow your own BONSAI

All about the HOBBY you choose...

ON PAGES 42 to 51, we've shown a number of people enjoying their hobbies. Most of them are well-advanced and have acquired a large amount of equipment. You can, however, get a good start with much less.

Music for children

Never before has so much music been available to so many people for so little cost. A flip of the switch--radio, television, or phonograph--and almost every home in America can immediately be flooded with sound.

SMALL TOWN COLLEGE WITH BIG IDEAS

American colleges are caught in a painful twoway squeeze. On the one hand, there is increasing pressure from hordes of young people (and their frantic parents) who want to get in. On the other hand, colleges are notoriously insolvent, and the more students they admit, the bigger their deficits. Everybody shakes his head sadly and says that the situation is bound to get worse before it gets better.

Change this house?

How to get plans for FIVE STAR homes

Try a seed mosaic

A purebred pup for you

WHEN you decide to buy a dog for your family, give some thought to the advantages of a purebred puppy. When you buy a puppy of a particular breed, you not only know what his size and shape will be when he grows up, but you will also know something about his general personality.

The inside story on electric heating

What it costs. In its young life, electric heat has gained the reputation of being expensive. However, when a house is designed to meet the minimum electric heat standards, costs generally are not unreasonable. If your kilowatt hour in the quantity used by electric heat costs between 1 and 2 cents, then, in very rough terms, your yearly heating bill for 1500 feet of heated space would run $105 to $150 in Arizona, Southern California, most of Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia; $150 to $226 in Missouri; and $226 to $360 in Minnesota.

the man next door

One thing's certain in November--we can relax in the pleasant anticipation of the unprecedented prosperity and reform the victorious candidates promised us if elected.