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House and Home Magazine - July 1956 - Return to Main Search
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IT'S EASY to add new convenience and distinction to your homes with fir plywood built-ins. Storage cabinets, wardrobe or built-in furniture  fir plywood is the logical material for any built-in. No other material is so adaptable to specific design and space requirements. Fir plywood is bght, strong, good-looking. Takes any finish. Works quickly, easily, simphfies framing for on-job construction or shop-fabricated units.

FREE PORTFOLIO OF FIR PLYWOOD INTERIORS

File folder assembly Includes design ideas, specifications and application data. Write (USA only) Douglas Fir Plywood Assoc. Dept. HH, Tacoma 2, Washington.

INSIST ON DFPA GRADEMARKS!

DFPA grademarks assure quality. Standard grades for interior finish are A-A, A-B and A-D (PlyPanel"). Special panels include overlaid plywood . . ."relief grain" (brushed, embossed and striated panels) . . . and Texture One-Eleven "grooved."

Plywood of other western softwoods available; look for this DFPA grademark.

g. Fiberglas panels, shown here in a ceiling, have a glassy surface on one side, a texture surface of Fiberglas on the other to shower light softly through a room. Three types of panels hold leaves and butterflies; leaves and plant life; custom order designs. You can put them up as room dividers, screens, shower enclosures, partitions, shoji screens. Pagoda line (leaves and butterflies) comes in panels 12" x 36", 18" x 48", 24" x 60", 36" x 72", 44" x 96". Prices from $2.40 per sq. ft. up to $12.50 per sq. ft. Glass Lamina-tors, Inc., Seattle, Wash.

h. Prefinished hardwood paneling, in

V-grooved, random widths, give a lustre to interiors. Birch and red gum wood panels come ready to install. Panels are back-sealed for stability, come packed 10 to a carton. You can have them in 4'x 8' and 4' x 7' sizes at a cost comparable to that of plaster walls. Birch paneling is about 53⅜* per sq. ft.; red gum paneling costs about 49<⅝ per sq. ft. Georgia-Pacific Plywood Co., Olympia, Wash.

i. Azrock tile puts four new colors on floors. Two of them in 3/32" cork terrazzo look like natural cork, come in 9" x 9" size. Two new asphalt tile colors in terrazzo tone patterns are a) a reddish-brown background with multicolored chips, and b) a white background with gray and black chips. Tiles are smooth-surfaced to give the kind of easy cleaning housewives want. Both in ⅛" thickness, 9" x 9" size. Uvalde Rock Asphalt Co., Azrock Products Div., San Antonio, Texas.

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