AN IDEAL FLAT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15613, 20 May 1914, Page 12

AN IDEAL FLAT.

1 NO CORNERS FOR DUST.

An ideal flat for artisan families, in which girls will be taught all -the arts of housei wifery, is to be built, at the Northern Polytechnic, Islington, London, at a cost of £1100. It will 'not be the kind of flat artisan's can get in London at present, but will represent the ideal which they should be educated to demand. The object will be to show how housework can be made easy, scientific, ; and attractive. The flat will be . dustless, with curved 'corners' to the rooms, and curved wainscoting where it joins the floor and ceiling, avoid dust-trap angles. There will be no angular-mouldings to any of the furniture, doors, or windows. > As far as possible, there will be no paint or paper on. the walls, or carpets on the floors. The windows will be adorned with casement curtains instead of the usual long dusttraps ; the fireplaces . will be reduced . to their simplest form, .with no elaborate iron bars. that swallow up the heat and require a lot of blackleading, and there will not be a conventional cooking range in the'kitchen, .but a convertible stove, which can be made to look like a drawing room fireplace-. , ' , ' ' '.-'■ This model demonstration flail will have two bedrooms, a sitting-room,- and a kitchen, (ill: fully furnished,- and the girl--pupils will "live" there for, a week at a time, four.: by. four in rotation. They will not sleep en these ideal premises, but will make and unmake the beds, 'execute the family weekly wash',, turn out the rooms on a scientific basis, and produce daily dinner and tea for six. Washing-up. is on o of the subjects which will receive special attention.