KITCHEN INTERESTS

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 131, 27 February 1937, Page 22

KITCHEN INTERESTS

Ousting The Bathroom In

Decoration

A few years ago the bathroom was the “pet” of the house, the room to which much thought was given and on which much money was expended in decoration. Now the kitchen has usurped this foremost place in the home-owner’s affections. Everyone is kitchen conscious now. Every gadget, every bit of furniture and every utensil must not only do its work well but must be “good to look on” into the bargain. A

short time ago leisured housewives left the buying of kitchen utensils and so on to their housekeepers or cooks. Now the mistress of the house herself inspects and orders them, and knows a good deal about their working, too. Perhaps that is why everything connected with the kitchen is so attractive to the eye these days.

The latest kitchen containers are delightful. They are of metal with a stippled matt finish. A lovely clear green, a charming blue and, most popular of all at the moment, a warm cream are the colours. They have chromium fittings or artistic erinoid fastenings. The shapes are all that could be desired. Tins for biscuits have no seams. Bread bins vary in type—the most recent arrivals on the market being built on the lines of a. roll-top desk top. Until recently orange was a favourite colour for kitchen equipment. Now it is either blue or green allied to white or cream. There is nothing you cannot

buy for the kitchen which will not match Oi- tone in with the colour scheme you have chosen. Refrigerators are no longer a luxury for the rich. They are being sold extensively to people of average—even small—incomes. Perhaps the reason for this rise in sales is that most of the lately-built flats —and houses—have refrigerators installed. They are all part and parcel of the “modern” conveniences upon which everyone insists in

these days, and have improved beyond all recognition. Streamlined doors open at a touch; very little metal work to need polishing; more spacious and flexible ice trays—just bend the metal back and out the ice cubes drop! Interiors are of stainless porcelain with rounded corners. No noise, vibration or worry. Everything working like magic. Dustpans have rubber edges. Food covers of gleaming white enamelled metal network are given transparent covers so that the food can be viewed without removing the cover. The most marvellous array of kitchen cabinets, the latest of which are “architect designed.” would not look out of place in a dining-room of the simpler sort. These arc often not so costly to buy, as it would be to have the simplest shelves and sliding doors built into your kitchen. There is no doubt that the heart of the home is now the kitchen.