Clever Products Cut Expense of Home Remodefing

Lumber dealers interested in materials for home decoration and remodeling will find it profitable to consult the Geo. E. Ream Company, 2820 Naomi Avenue, Los Angeles.

There you will find samples of the latest and most practical remodeling materials; also, a source of up-to-date information on the subject which will aid you considerably in obtaining your share of this business.

Have you considered the number of homes in your community with ceilings in which the plaster is badly cracked, and in need of repair ? If so, you will learn of a new way of re-covering this cracking plaster, without removing it, with the consequent meSs and dirt. .IJpson Board, a specialized material for walls and ceilings, available in large, rigid light weight panels, is applied by any carpenter right over the old plaster.

If you wish, extremely beautiful "relief" effetts, formerly possible only at great expense with hand-modeled plaster, can be secured quite inexpensively by the use of specially designed IJpson Duplex Mouldings which, incidentally, also serve to conceal the joints in the wallboard. Further decorative efiects are had by using "Relief Blocks" at moulding intersections.

This same "stabilized" wallboard is also being used in many homes to re-cover old plaster walls, as well as in

1938 European Lumber Export Quota Reduced

Washington, Oct. n.-At a meeting of the European Timber Exporters Convention, held in Stockhotm on September D, it was voted to reduce the 1938 quota of exports of softwood lumber of the countries represented, the quota for 1938 to be 3,600,000 standards, (7,128,000"@0 board feet) which is 1O per cent less th.an the amount allowed by the 1937 qtota. It was made permissible to make use of part or all of this reduction in the remainder of 1937, if that course seems desirable. The reduction in the quotas for all the countries involved thus amounts to 792'00O'000 feet during the period from the first of Qctober, 7937, to December 31. 1938. The total amount of the reduction is to be apportioned among the different countries in proportion to their 1937 quotas. The decision is subject, as usual, to formal ratification by the various countries concerned; The quota is for world markets' except North and South America, Iran and the Far East.

The countries represented in the European Timbe.r Sxporters Convention are Austria, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Latvia, Poland, Rumania, Sweden, U.S'S.R., and Yugo' slavia. These countries account for about 97 percent of' the European exports of softwood lumber, mostly to the markets of 'Western Europe and England. .:.

much new construction. The modern panel treatments are in order and really charming results are being obtained by the use of "Relief Strips" at regular intervals, edged rvith mouldings designed for the purpose.

And here's another piece of news. Many home owners often wish they could afford to tile their bathroom and kitchen walls. Dealers should ask the Geo. E. Ream Company for samples of the new Upson Decotile, it's a brand new product which, at a little distance, you can hardly tell from the costly ceramic tiles. It comes in large panels 4 feet x 8 feet scored in tile-like patterns 4 inches x 4 inches, and can be had in either black or white. or three lovely pastel shades of green, blue and ivory.

The surface of this new wall covering has a "matteglaze" finish which, if you don't know, means that it is not highly glazed or glaring but is restful and soothing to the eyes even in a strong light. It is washed as easily as china.

A companion product is Artwal, in the same colors and finish, but delightfully smooth of surface, and specially designed Decorative Mouldings are available for use with either of these wall coverings as a finish for edges and corners and to provide a pleasing trim. These mouldings are in matching colors, also in beautiful lustrous chromium. Some really striking effects are obtained in kitchens and bathrooms with the use of color harmonies in wall treatments and moulding finishes.

A comparatively few dollars goes a long way in bringing sparkling color into otherwise drab and dreary rooms with the aid of these new wall coverings. You should arrang'e to see them at your earliest opportunity.

"Sag-Nott" Doors Feature "Cotter-K eying" Joints

An exclusive feature which gives the name "Sag-Nott" to the doors manufactured by the Harbor Plywood Corporation of Hoquiam, Washington, is the "cotter-keying" of the dowels in the joints so that each joint is perfectly locked.

Each of the joining dowels is held in place by crossdowels which are inserted through holes in the joining dowels and act as cotterpins. These joints are built under pressure and then glued, so that once the joint is placed and set, it is impossible for it to "give" or permit the door to sag.

The Sag-Nott feature in Harbord Sag-Nott Doors is supptied''without extra cost and the company guarantees that aix$" door which develops a 5ag from any loosening or giving of the joints will be replaced. Geo. E. Ream Company of tos Angeles is distributor for .these doors.