House Beautiful Magazine September 1941 Modern House Blueprints Remodeling

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• HOUSE BEAUTIFUL’S MODERN BRIDE’S HOUSE
  • The House, planned with a sincerity and good sense which make every inch count
  • The Garden, Planned Like a House for lots of casual outdoor living
  • Accessories and Appliances, decoration and useful additions to a modern house
  • The Living Room, with a sweeping modern spaciousness, advantageously partitioned in glass
  • The Game Room, ingeniously styled to be guest room, study and part of the terrace
  • The Bedroom, contemporary warmth in a setting of chartreuse and tawny rose
  • The Kitchen and Bath, in wood and cork colors spiked with smart color
  • Blue Prints, showing how the house goes together
  • Specification Summary, the prescribed list of building materials
  • Heating, Lighting, Plumbing, mechanical equipment modern as the house itself
• DECORATION
  • Leaves from a Decorator’s Notebook, the well-loved leaf motif in this season’s patterns
  • Make Way for the Children, imagination and dash in the living quarters of the very young
  • Back to School, to Stephens College, where students “do” their own rooms as a decorating lesson
  • Seascape of fluted shells and sterling on a gracious table
  • Landscape of porcelain game birds and silver, modern or Victorian, as you will
  • Up-To-Date, a many-purpose room, elegantly restrained, in the modern tempo
• BUILDING
  • Small House Competition, 14th annual running
  • Today We Start Remodeling, delightful lesson in saving money by knowing how, by Susan Allen
  • Axioms, kindly warnings to home planners, by Gerald K. Geerlings
  • Blue Ribbon Revision, a banner remodeling job on the house
  • Please Tell Me, readers’ building questions answered by Eugene Raskin, A. I. A.
  • Earmarked for Home Builders, a summary of new materials and equipment
  • Prepare for Winter by learning practical and patriotic fuel-saving tricks which aid defense
• HOUSES
  • See Bride’s House, above
  • Here Is the House on the Cover, colonial and colorful
  • Painter’s Holiday, a small house with a lively air reflecting its owner’s originality, by Lucy Stanton
  • Colonial Served for Seven is the answer to the large family-small house problem
  • Cornice Boards, a few good designs and how to make them
• GARDENING
  • The Practical Gardener’s Scrapbook
  • Informal Garden Party, in defiance of lots of shade and a sloping site, by Dorothy H. Jenkins
  • House Beautiful’s Fall Planting Program, spot news for gardeners
  • Lawn Building
  • Peonies
  • Fall Seed Sowing
  • Iris
  • Soil
  • Foundation Planting
  • Spring Bulbs
  • Choose Roses for many different uses and select them from various types, by Helen Van Pelt Wilson
  • Log of the Practical Gardener, September garden chores and chances
  • The Man Behind the Hoe, monthly report from the vegetable patch
  • Dahlias, summer book on House Beautiful’s Dahlia Futurity
• COOKING
  • By Hook and By Cook, formula for fresh water fish, by Mary Grosvenor Ellsworth
  • Food and Drink Bar, choice recipes and notes on delicacies
  • The Recipe of the Month, Richard Kent gives us Captain’s Cake, a Cape Cod favorite
• MISCELLANEOUS
  • Cover, Kodachrome by the Editor
  • Conveniences of the Month, household equipment in the news
  • The Booklet Shelf, current literature worth having
  • Window Shopping, new and smart ideas in the shops
  • Bundles for Babies, window shopping for the youngest generation
  • The Dog Show, about Cairn Terriers and their ways
  • Editor’s Page: Priorities
  • Compass Pointers: In Stately Old Virginia, from Tidewater to Blue Ridge