CUPBOARD SPACE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 255, 18 January 1928, Page 7

CUPBOARD SPACE

HOME PLANNERS NOTE If a house is to be run efficiently and with the minimum expenditure of effort, appliances must be grouped together, and effective grouping necessitates cupboard space. Among the things which absolutely demand a cupboard to themselves are: (1) China; (2) stores, like jam, etc.; (3) brooms and-brushes; (4) linen; (5) first-aid appliances. China should, if possible, be stored in a cupboard used for nothing else. If this is not convenient, then shelves in another cupboard must be utilised. Whichever method is adopted, make quite sure that the grouping is useful. For instance, one shelf in the china cupboard must be 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 for those dishes less frequently used. To make the fullest use of 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.

The 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 may be 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.

Most wallpapers are carefulily designed by successful artists and their choice of secondary colours in a design for the walls may be safely followed in selecting the colours for your other furnishings. If you chose your wallpaper wisely, it will reinforce your colour scheme throughout and at the same time will clothe your walls with a beautiful design which will help to tie your room and its furnishings together into one harmonious whole.