HOUSEKEEPING PLANS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 8

HOUSEKEEPING PLANS

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —May I, as a woman, offer a protest regarding the plans of the Government houses. We are told that the kitchens are to be made big so that some, meals can be served there. Now -why must we be forced to, eat amongst the smells of cooking? After all it is so easy to step into another room to serve meals in. pleasanter surroundings than to sit among the preparations of a meal. The Government plans instead of making a door between kitchen and livingroom compel us to carry everything through doors and passages until we arrive practically at the front door, which of course means that no meals will be served in the living-room, or should I say. "parlour," as such form of architecture immediately thrusts us back into the age of whatnots, serveries, and antimacassars. May I suggest that the architects when planning another series of homes try and visualise what undue hardships they are giving us every time we wish to have a meal out of the kitchen. Let them try to imagine they are housewives at-the end of a tiring day carrying'meals to their misnamed living-rooms. I think it fairly safe to assume that the-majo-rity of our architects are familiar with the old tag that "fools rush in where angels fear to tread," so I will content myself by signing this letter . ■ . ANGEL.