AN IDEAL FLAT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2156, 23 May 1914, Page 11

AN IDEAL FLAT

NO CORNERS FOR DUST. An ideal flat for artisan families, in which girls will he taught all the arts of house-wifciy, is to be built at the Northern Polytechnic, Islington,; London, at a cost'of £1100. It will ''not be tho kind of flat artisans can get in London at present, hut will represent tho ideal which they should be educated to demand, The object will be to showhow house work can bo made easy, scientific, and attractive. The flat will be dustless, with curved "corners" to the rooms, and curved wainscoting where it joins tho floor and ceiling, to avoid dust-trap angles. There will be no angular-mouldings to any of tho furniture, doors, or windows. As far as possible, there, will bo no paint or paper on the walls, or carpets on the floors. Tho windows will be ajlorned with casement curtains, instead of the usual long dust-traps,; the fireplaces will be reduced to their simplest form, with no elaborate iron hars that swallow up heat, and require a lot of blackleading, and there will not bo a conventional cooking range in tho kitchen, hut a convertible stove, which can be' made to look like a drawing-room fireplace. This model demonstration flat will havo two bedrooms, a sitting-room, and a kitchen, nil fully furnished, and the girl-pupils will "live" there for a week at a time, four by four, in rotation. They will not sleep on these ideal premises, but will make and unmake, the beds, execute the family weekly _ wash, turn out tho rooms on a scientific basis, and produce daily dinner and tea for six. Washing-up is one of the subjects which will receive special, attention, a