CUPBOARD SPACING

Evening Star, Issue 19790, 14 February 1928, Page 2

CUPBOARD SPACING

POINTS JOB HOiE PLANNERS If a house is to be run efficiently and with tho minimum expenditure of effort, appliances must bo grouped together, and effective grouping necessitates clipboard space. Among the things which absolutely demand a cupboard to themselves are: (1) China; {2) stores, like jam, etc.; (d) brooms and brushes; (-1) linen; (5) first-aid appliances. China should, if possible be stored in a cupboard used lor nothing else. If this is not convenient, then shelves in another cupboard must bo utilised. Whichever method is adopted, make quite sure that tho grouping is useful. For instance, one shelf in tho china cupboard- must he reserved for the dinner service. Plates are piled according to their sizes, and thus when a meal is being prepared, it is the simplest matter to take the number of each kind of dish required. On this shelf, too, coffee cups and saucers and soup bowls find a place. Another shelf carries only the tea service, and so on; the top shelf being reserved ior those dishes less frequently used. To make the fullest use ot such a cupboard, have cup hooks not only all round the back and sides, but in rows conveniently spaced so that cups can hang from the lower side of the shelf above. Tho cupboard which is to be used for the storage of dry groceries, and jams, should be cool, dry, and well ventilated. The upper part of a kitchen cabinet makes an ideal storing place, and housewives who have an old-fash-ioned, open dresser will have an excellent substitute if the top part is enclosed with doors, so that dust is kept out.

A row of shelves he similarly enclosed.

Linen must be stored alone, and a cupboard is best. If this cupboard is also one in which the linen can be aired, so much the better. On each shelf there should be a length of casement cloth or a piece of old sheeting. This should be secured by means of drawing pins* to the back of the shelf and hang over the edge so that when the linen is placed, the . covering can be folded over it all.