CUPBOARD SPACE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 September 1927, Page 17

CUPBOARD SPACE.

foe efficient housekeeping. 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 m 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 arc piled accoiding to their sizes, and thus when a meal is being prepared, it is the simplest matter to take the number of each 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 least 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-fashioned, 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 casejnent. 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 oyer it all.