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Keeping Down the Cost of Your Woodwork
Restful Rooms
Where First Impressions Count
The Living Room That Deserves Its Name
Making the Dining Room Inviting
Lightening Kitchen Burdens
Where You Spend Over One-third of Your Life
Here and There About the House
How You Can Obtain Restful Rooms
Keeping
Down the Cost
of Your
Woodwork
The woodwork of your home is one of the most important
parts of its very structure
Copyright, 1923
Curtis Companies Service Bureau
Clinton, Iowa
To fireside happiness, to hours of ease
Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.
—Samuel Rogers
The common problem, yours, mine, everyone’s, is not to fancywhat were fair in life provided it could be—but findingfirst what may be, then find how to make it fair up to ourmeans.—Browning
Not so many years ago, home-builders of good taste who wished to havein their homes a background of beautiful woodwork with architecturalvalue found it almost impossible to obtain such woodwork except byspecial order, at necessarily great cost. The Curtis Companies havedone much to change this—to make this one thing that is “fair inlife,” “fair up to our means.” The object of this booklet is to tellyou how it is possible for you now to obtain woodwork of excellentdesign and guaranteed construction at lower cost than you could havedone a few years ago.
What is meant by “lower costs?” Curtis Woodwork is not the lowestpriced woodwork on the market, but it is the greatest value, dollarfor dollar. You may be able to buy, for less money, woodwork thatlooks something like Curtis material. Cheaper material cannot, ofcourse, have the same quality as Curtis Woodwork all the way through.We do not claim to make the cheapest woodwork on the market, but