Keeping Down the Cost of Your Woodwork

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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 fancy what were fair in life provided it could be—but finding first what may be, then find how to make it fair up to our means. —Browning
Not so many years ago, home-builders of good taste who wished to have in their homes a background of beautiful woodwork with architectural value found it almost impossible to obtain such woodwork except by special order, at necessarily great cost. The Curtis Companies have done much to change this—to make this one thing that is “fair in life,” “fair up to our means.” The object of this booklet is to tell you how it is possible for you now to obtain woodwork of excellent design and guaranteed construction at lower cost than you could have done a few years ago.
What is meant by “lower costs?” Curtis Woodwork is not the lowest priced woodwork on the market, but it is the greatest value, dollar for dollar. You may be able to buy, for less money, woodwork that looks something like Curtis material. Cheaper material cannot, of course, have the same quality as Curtis Woodwork all the way through. We do not claim to make the cheapest woodwork on the market, but only the best . You will find that woodwork bearing the Curtis trademark represents better value, rather than lower first cost.