Gaiety in Kitchens

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 157, 6 July 1936, Page 11

Gaiety in Kitchens

NEW STEF-SAVING NOTIONS The kitchen, where the housewife spends so much of her time, is no longer tho dingy, ill-equipped room of the past. The now kitchen furniture, says a London correspondent, is so attractive in design and colouring that this roim stands alone in its decorative aspect as purely 1 ‘kitchen.” Surfacos luro smooth and easily kept in a spick-and-span condition. Either light-' colourod woods are used for the new all-in-one pieces, or metals finished in a colour-scheme to harmonise with the walls. Step-saving furniture on the latest lines, dressers and kitchen tables have a number of interesting .features. There is a household tablo fbr all kinds ' of uses, with roomy drawers and cupboards below at one end, and at the other spaces . shared by a pull-out'iron-ing board and a pastry-board. These boards lit back neatly into tho double top, so that thero is room to sit 1 at one-half of the tablo when household tasks permit. Useful procelain-toppcd side-tables, with cupboard, shelves and drawers for storage below, designed to stand at tho side of the cooking stove, are another practical innovation.

Almost the wholo of tho kitchen equipment, apart from tho cooking stove, can be combined in one piece of furniture built up in units, a kitchenette dresser, coloured to tone with any special colour scheme. Food preparation, storage, ironing, indeed, ; most kitchen tasks, can bo achieved within the

limit of this piece of furniture, which, when closed, has an attractively neat appearance.'