Our 82nd Competition.

Progress, Volume XVII, Issue 3, 1 November 1921, Page 68

Our 82nd Competition.

We offer a prize of £1 is. for the best design for an IDEAL KITCHEN, SERVERY AND SERVANTS’ QUARTERS for an average house. The kitchen and servants’ quarters to be semi-detached, and connected to main house and dining-room by the COMPETITtOH (A) SCALE ji Iticfj Ufoor-. '

servery. Particular attention to be paid to appointments and planning- of kitchen and servery, so as to save labour and eliminate walking-. Kitchen wing- will be seen on approaching the house and will be near the main entrance. Attention must therefore be paid to the elevations. The kitchen is to be

well-ventilated from the ceiling. Allow for range, fuel storage, heating apparatus and cooker. All fittings to be built in. Special attention to be made to arranging for store cupboards and china cupboards. Make provision for a recess for maid and living-out servants to sit. Kitchen lobby and back entrance. Maids’ bedroom and bathroom fitted with bath, basin and w.c. Small laundry with three tubs, boiler and provisions for ironing and drying clothes. All to be on one floor.

Drawings Required. i plan, i section, at least 2 elevations, to Jin. scale; Also Jin. detail of part of fittings of kitchen or servery. Typewritten description of the general work. FLOOR Areas.- —Kitchen about 160 sq. ft. ; servery, about 70 sq. ft. maid’s, about 100 sq. ft.; bath, about 80 sq. ft. ; laundry, about go sq. ft. Materials to be Used. —Red brick, tiled roof. See plan of existing house. Mr. Roy L. Binney, of Auckland, will adjudicate. Designs must be sent in finished as above under a nom de plume, addressed to the' Editor “ N.Z. Building Progress,” 22 Wingfield Street, Wellington, and clearly marked, Eighty-second Competition on outside, with a covering letter giving competitor’s name, and address of employer. Designs must be sent in by February 27th, 1922.•