GAIETY IN KITCHENS

Evening Star, Issue 22442, 12 September 1936, Page 27

GAIETY IN KITCHENS

NEW STEP-SAVING NOTIONS Tho kitchen, where the_ housewife spends so much of her time, is no longer the dingy, ill-equipped room of the past. The new kitchen furniture (says a London correspondent) is so attractive in design and colouring that this room stands alone in its decorative aspect as purely “ kitchen.” Surfaces are smooth and easily kept in a spick-and-span condition. Either lightcoloureci woods are used for the new all-in-one pieces, or metals finished in a colour scheme to harmonise with the walls. Step-saving furniture on the latest lines, dressers and kitchen tables have a number of interesting features. There is a household) table for all kinds of uses, with roomy drawers and cupboards below at one end, and at tho other spaces shared by a pull-out ironing board and a pastry board. These boards lit back neatly into the double top, so that there is room to sit at one-half of the table when household tasks permit. Useful porce-lain-topped side-tables, with cupboard, shelves, and drawers for storage below, designed to stand at the side of tho cooking stove, are another practical innovation. Almost the whole, of the kitchen equipment, apart from the cooking srove, can be combined in one piece of furniture built up in units, a kitchenette dresser, coloured to tone with any special colour scheme. Food preparation, storage, ironing, indeed, most kitchen tasks, can be achieved within the limit of this piece of furniture, which, when closed, has an attractively neat appearance.