ALL-ELECTRIC HOUSE

Evening Star, Issue 22272, 25 February 1936, Page 2

ALL-ELECTRIC HOUSE

LABOUR-SAVING DEVICES The Electrical Association for Women has always been enterprising, and one of its most recent ventures is to build an all-electric house at Bristol, states an English writer. There is nothing aggressively modern about this house; it is a pleasant, livable place of ordinary size, planned in every detail to eliminate unnecessary work wherever possible. There is, for instance, no metal anywhere, which does away with a great deal of cleaning; the bedrooms had built-iii cupboards and wash basins, and all the window pelmets are built in to save material and cleaning. The windows arc not paned; they are made from big sheets of glass, the dining room window folding away so that the sun can shine in. The roof has a sunbathing portion sheltered by walls, and downstairs the living room, dining room, and hall can be thrown into one for entertaining. In the living room there is a library recess built m with bookcases and a desk, while the dining room has a built-in sideboard beneath a hatchway leading to the kitchen. In the kitchen, of course, all the equipment is built in, including a refrigerator, without which

no modern home is now complete. The Electrical Association for Women has fixed the selling price of this house at £I,OOO, and it is rather interesting to note that once the association had paid the fees in connection with its designing the builders undertook all further financial responsibility, so sure were they that here was a house which would have a definite appeal to women. LOOSE COVER LORE Loose covers lose their charm the minute they lose their freshness. And often they are not washed frequently enough because they are a nuisance to take on and off and need such careful laundering and such firm fitting and pulling into place again. The following scheme does away with all this bother, for the loose covers are buttoned on and make no secret of it—quite the reverse, in fact, for the buttons are prominently placed so that they are given their full decorative value, writes an interior decoration expert. I saw the idea carried out in a bedroom, whore the bedspread was made of plain white linen, cut in sections that were easily undone for laundering, and were most effectively joined together again by bright blue wooden buttons. The dressing table was dressed up in white linen petticoats that were also fastened with blue buttons, so were the covers for the easy chair and the dressing table stool. 'The result really was most charming, and the room looked so cool and pretty for the summer.