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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
October 7. 1956
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APARTMENT FURNISHING
FOR THE FRUGAL
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By JAMES DYGERT
HISTORY, it has been claimed,
stumbles along in cycles. If so,
the most pathetic victim of this
fact is the American male. Caught
up in the do-it-yourself whirl, this
wretch finds himself closely akin
to primitive man, who of neces-
sity did it himself.
A fortunate Ann Arbor student
who locates an apartment is even
closer to his ancestors, by virtue
of the necessity of do-it-yourself
furnishing. Unless he is a mil-
lionaire or the offspring of a fur-
niture dealer, he invariably must
furnish it himself.
Happily, student apartments are
less than huge; else this would be
a superhuman task for us unli-
censed carpenters. Any housewife
can tell you it's easier to furnish
one room than two.
One very helpful hint for the
student who moves into an apart-
ment for the first time is that he
hang a curtain across the room,
thus converting his one room into
a two-room job. There are many
apartments in Ann Arbor draw-
ing higher rents on this principal.
IN ONE such apartment in town,
each room approximates, in size,
a closet, making the apartment
about the size of two closets. As
is invariably the case, one of the
rooms is a kitchen and the other
a living-room-dining-room-bed-
room-study. The tiny bathroom, of
ocurse, is outside the apartment
off a hallway where it also serves
the residents of several other two-
room apartments in the structure.
Obviously, the chief challenge
of this mode of living is to require
as little room as possible, both for
your furniture and for your acti-
vities. If you live in such an apart-
ment, here are some hints gleaned
from some of the campus' most ex-
perienced cubicle dwellers:
1. Construct book cases out of
Mr. Dygert is a former Daily
City Editor who here brings his
essentially rational mind to
bear on the emotional problems
of students who need advice in
the "basic stoffs" of life.
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